Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-12-26
Famous Evangelist Passes
Away at His Home.
HE DIED AT NOON TODAY
Death Was Result. of General Prostra.
ton Brought On by Overwork-
His Last Vords-Ris Life
and Works.

East Northfeld, Mass, Dec. 22.-(By
Associated Press.)-D. L. Moody, the
famous evangelist, died at noon today.
1t was not expected until yesterday
by Moody's family and friends that
death would be the result of his illness.
The cause of the general breaking
down was due TO overwork. His heart
had been weak for a long time. and the
eNertions put forth in connection with
the great revival meetings at Kansas
City last month, brought on collapse
from which he failed to rally.
The breakdown occurred Nov. 10
and the seriousness of his condition
was SO apparent that his physicians
compelled him to give up work and re-
turn home at once. After he reached
Northfield eminent physicians did
what they could for him. Last week
they said he was very ill and that little
improvement was noticed.
This week he showed steady gain
till yesterday, when symptoms OF nerv-
BUSINESS We're observed. accompanied
ness continued. At o'clock he called
end was not far off. The family re-
NAMED close by his bedside all fore
noon. His death was almost free from
pain, and he occasionally talked with
apparent ease.
About the last words he was heard
to utter We're: Il have always been
n hi IN 1a1
wealth, but to find work to do" Just
before ~ o'clock the watchers saw the
end approaching, and at exactly noon
His Life and Work.
Lyman Dwight Moody, evangelist,
was born in Mortified, Mass. Feb. 5,
1887. He received a meager education
and worked on farm until he was II
when he became n clerk in a boot and
shoe store in Boston. He Joined the
Congregational church soon after and
in 1856 went to Chicago. where he la
bored zealously in missionary work
among the poorer classes. In less than
a year after going to Chicago he built
| up colleges and schools which num-
bercd over 1000 children. He was in
the service of the Christian commits
sion. During the civil war, and subse-
quently, he became city missionary of
the Y. NJ. c. A. of Chicago. a church
twas built for his converts and The be-
came the unordained pastor. I'M the
Chicago fire, in 1871, the church and
his home, together with all the furni-
ture which had been given him, were
destroyed, but IL new church was built
in it's place. In 1873 in company with
Ira d. Sankey, he went to Europe and
held religious .evivals in Edinburgh,
Glasgow, Dublin. London and other
large cities of Great Britain. In 1875
they returned to the United States and
held meetings in various cities. Moody
has since continued his evangelistic
work in the United States and Great
Britain. He has established four
schools, three of them at his native
town. and one in Chicago. Two of the
Mortified schools are academies. it
ting students for college, the third is 4
woman's training school, while the
Chicago institution is for biblical train
ling. Mr.. Moody wrote several books,
among which were ARROWS and ,Anec-
dotes.' which was written in 1877;
Heaven" in 1880; Secret Power" in
1851; THE Word of God in 1854, and
several collections of sermons.