The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-12-30
WORLD WIDE GRIEF
OVER MO0DYi''S DEATH
Messages ofCondolenceto His Fam
iIy From All Parts Of America
and Europe.
HIS CAREER AS AN EVANGELIST
Besnn His Work Over Forty Years
Aso-Probably the Most Pow.
crrul Preacher OF His
Generation.

East Mortified, Mass, Dec. 25.-The
funeral of Dwight J.. Moody will be
held ut a:a0 Tuesday at the Congrega-
tional church. The pastor, Rev. DR..
Schofield, will oficiate, and addresses
will be delivered by men associated
with Moody's work.
Messages of coincidence have been
pouring in today from all parts of
the United States and Canada, Eng
land, Scotland and Ireland.
Moody's Career.
If Mr.. Moody had lived until Febru-
airy he would have been SO years old.
From his earliest boyhood, when he
worked in n shoe store, he was a man
Of vigorous action. we are here to
be busy" he used to say. "A man who
has a chance to work and can't earn
his living by honest labor ought to be
buried. He isn't fit TO live OH earth
at all. | feel that l have earned my
living every day, every single day.
There never was a time when living
was so Cheap in this country-never.
Why, you can buy a good suit of
clothes for $1O," and he would look
comfortably down at the suit of blue
he wore. Seems to me Il manought
to be able to hustle around and get
$1O.''
Mr.. Moody was born in Mortified
and began to work as Il clerk in a
shoe store i'll Boston. Then he went to
Chicago. He taught. Sunday school,
opened a mission school and plunged
heart and soul into religious work.
The mans soul throbbed with eager
ness for his tasks. He could not be
satisfied. In six years the school had
1000 pupils. He met Mr.. Sankey at
the Y. NJ. c. A. in Chicago. Mr.. San
key was II singer of great power and
persuasion. Mr.. Moody~preached and
Mr.. Sankcy sang. The names of Moo
dy and sankey are linked together.
and wherever one name is heard the
other is recalled.
Moody and Sankey worked for some
tine in. Chicago to get the money to
put up n mission building. They de-
cided, While the subscriptions were
coming in, to go to Great Britain. For
four years, from 1878 to ls77-they
worked hard preaching and singing
all owe England, Ireland and Scot
land. Their success was remarkable.
They returned to this country and
made a tour of the principal cities.
Thousands of converts were often
made ia a single city.
The Moody School.
But Mr. Moody soon widened his
cork. He learned that addressing the
:'ublic in masses and moving and con.
serting it by the thousands WAS very
grand, but it was not generally last
I.e. He learned the value of personal,
luiet work. of modest methods. He
sounded schools for the Christian and
educational training of young men
md women. A school for girls was
.cunded in Mortified, Mass, and n
;chool for boys in Mount Hermon. At
.hese schools the pupils pay 500 u
year and subscriptions make up the
other 500 necessary to support the
school. These schools have trained
more than 1000 young people in var.
ious kinds of hand labor besides Civ.
ing them Il good knowledge of the
common school branches.
Mr.. Moody obtained almost 100000
every year for his schools. He was
IS IIltlNS NJ 1HI = sNlltl
last Of All, the Beggar Died. is the
spitaph want people to put on my
tomb" he used to say with n laugh.
He had little money and little prop
srty that belonged to himself. 1t all
went to his schools.
Mr.. Moody was not an educated
man. He frequently made grammati-
cal mistakes. but people did not no.
ticc them. The man himself made the
great impression. I'm no deep
thought man." he said. I'm Just II
Of the people, and l talk to them
from their w standpoint. You
have to get down to the people if you
want to have any influence with them.
It's no way to get rSople to be good
TO lecture them. The man that talks
to congregations from IL deep thought
basis will get the twentieth man, but.
mind you, / get the other nineteen"
His Unconventional Methods. =
In his methods Mr.. Moody was
thoroughlike businesslike and often
unconventional. During the Worlds
fair in Chicago he had bulletin boards
made upon which large notices could
&c pasted. These We're placed out
side the churches. In one case Il
church officer objected to this as be-
ing undignified. Mr.. Moody was
unused. '.Undignified!" he said.
why, that's just like a. lot of these
rossils-killing their churches with
dignity. / should like TO know if it
isn't Il good deal more undignitied to
have Il minister preach to an empty
,l,urch fifty times a year? When