The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-26
M0ODYS HOME
How He Happened to Found
School at Mortified

~ avn SAtAACidi Willie GALEGIlH1y
homelike, is as large as a hotel. Here
he for many years entertained the
great preachers from all over the
world who came to attend the summer
conferences.
BY MI. Moody's order a basket was
filled with apples and placed by the
walk III front of his house each morn
ing for the girls to help themselves as
they went to the recitation hall. Ey-
erythlns he had belonged to the boys
ana girls at these schools. One morn
ING ING ne said to the girls at chapel:
Inefe are lot of grapes up there
pack OF my house, and if you girls
don't come up and get them pretty
soon Jack Frost will"
AS AN EDUCATOR.
While Mr. Moody was known through
out the world as one of the great
preachers of the age, his work along
euucatlonal lines was marvelously sue
cessful also
AT the graduation exercises at North
held seminary last summer Mr.. Moody
told briefly the story of the founding of
mat school for girls, as well as of
Mount Hermon, the boys school, four
miles away. While engaged in evange-
Astlc work in Chicago he had been in
Vlted With II. F. Durant to attend the
graduation exercises of Mount Holy
oke seminary, and Mr. Durant was so
impressed with the work of that school
tnat he determined to establisS and
endow school for girls in h!a own
town Of Wellesley and name i: after
the place.
A few years thereafter, Mr.. Moody
went to his old home in Northfield one
summer, with no idea of anything more
than vacation, but his family so
much desired to remain, that he con-
GUIDED 20 make that place his home. 1t
was at this time that he realized that
ne might do something toward edu-
eating the girls in the neighborhood,
and in 1879 he established Mortified
seminary, fixing the rate for tuition
and board at $100 a year. and following
somewhat the plan of Mr.. Durant at
Wellesley, with whose work he was
familiar. Never in his fondest dreams
did he imagine that there would be
more than 100 pupils in attendancee
Two years after he founded Mount
Hermon. There are now 400 girls at
Mortified and 500 boys at Mount Her
mon.
PERSONAL CONTRIBUTION.
In starting these schools, he knew
that it would cost to run them at least.
800 more per pupil than he received.
What he has himself done to support
the schools can be best understood by
his own story of the publication of Cos
pei Hymns. When he and Mr. San
key were conducting services in Eng
land many persons after each meeting
asked Mr.. Sankey for copies of the
hymns he had sung. He had not the
copies to give. Finally, the demand for
the hymus became so great that they
were offered to several publishers, but
no one thought there was sufficient
profit in sight to justify printing them.
Mr.. Moody had in his pocket just $3.50,
and with this sum he had the first coll
lection of Gospel Hymns printed. The
profits to Mr.. Moody and Mr.. Sankey
to the extent of million and half of
dollars from these hymns, have gone
to support these schools.
While he gave literally himself,
others contributed generously to his ed
ucational work. On his sixtieth birth
day, in the spring of 1897. he was at
Mount Hermon with a party of friends,
and standing on the highest point over
looking the Connecticut river he said:
This is temptation for some one to
build a chapel" and on the spot the
money to the amount of $50, 900 was sub
scribed, half by American and half by
English friends, and the chapel is fin
ished and dedicated. For some time
after this incident this hill was known
as Temptation HILL" but now it is
called Inspiration point"
Mr.. Moody once said that when a man
goes to church he should always carry
his Bible under his arm, and then if he
goes five miles he will preach a sermon
five miles long. While he delivered
probably thousands of sermons with
wonderful effect, his life was his most
eloquent one.