The Life and Work of Dwight L. Moody

THE LIFE AND WORK OF
DWIGHT LYMAN MOODY
(1837-1899) BY THE REV. J. WILBUR CHAPMAN, D.D.
For many years a close colleague of Mr. Moody Originally published in 1900 as a 555-page book.

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This online book was originally found on Revival-Library.org, a U.K. Web site devoted to histories of great revivals and their leaders. Permission granted for placement on this site.

EXERPT:  HIS BIBLE  (this is really neat...)
Mr. MOODY loved his Bible. He knew it so well that his eyes and fingers could find any passage that he wanted from Genesis to Revelation, and it mattered not how hurriedly he was speaking, it was as easy for him to find the text he wished as for the master musician to find the notes on the keyboard of a piano, and yet, he tells us himself that, when he first entered the Sunday-school class in Boston, he did not know the difference between the Old Testament and the New.

MORE THAN PRECIOUS TO HIM

The Bible as a book was more than precious to him. His own Bible was a storehouse of richest treasure. He was never heard even by his closest friends to make a play on Bible words and phrases, and he was always quick to rebuke those who did. He really had no patience at all with the so-called higher criticism of God's word. He was one day approached by a newspaper reporter who asked for some word from him regarding the higher criticism. "I'm not up to that sort of thing," he said, with a twinkle in his eye. "You see, I never studied theology, and I'm precious glad I didn't. There are so many things in the Bible that everybody can understand that I'm going to preach about them until they are exhausted, and then, if I have any time left, I'll take up the texts I don't understand." "Aren't you ever asked to discuss difficult passages of Scripture?" was the inquiry. "Mercy, yes" answered Mr. Moody, "almost every day, but I always answer people just as I have answered you, and tell them that there is satisfaction and consolation enough in the promises of the Savior, all that anybody can want. The single verse, 'Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest,' contains all the theology and religion that I need, or any other man or woman.

Dwight L. Moody's Reccommendations:

"Let me indicate some suggestions:

1st. Always carry a Bible with you.

2nd. Mark it.

3rd. Set apart a portion of each day to study it.

4th. Ask God to open your eyes to its truth.

5th. Believe that God wrote this word to you, and act accordingly.

6th. Commit some portion of the Bible to memory each day.

7th. Do not be satisfied with simply reading a chapter daily; study the meaning of at least one verse in it.

"But remember this, that the Bible is every whit inspired. God has said it, and God always speaks the truth. 'Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Word shall not pass away.