The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-08
DR. MUNGER ON D. L. MOODY
INTERPRETING REVIEW FTHE LITE
 OFTHE ETANGELIST
Discourse Given at n Largely Attended Meeting of the Church Club Lnst Night-Mr. MoOdy's Ideas and How He Followed Them-His Devoted Work for the Advancement of Education.

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 Rev. pr. Munger gave very inter-
 estng address before the Mems club at
 the United church last evening on
 Dwight L. Moody. There was very
 large attendance and the life of the
 great evangelist was given most inter-
 estingly.
 Dr. Munger gave a very accurate ac-
 count of Mr. Moody's life from boyhood
 up to the time of his death. Most of the
 evangelist's life up to his nineteenth
 year was spent at his home in North
 field He was a quiet, good-natured
 boy and was always looking out for the
 welfare of others At the age of nine
 teen he left his home and went to Chi
 cago, where he spent a great many
 years in religious work.
 Dr. Munger said that Moody's work at Chicago, and, in fact, all over the country, was such that no one could charge him with being at fault with respect to fundamental Christian preaching. MT. Moody as soon as he reached Chicago began to show his great desire for the teaching of the Bible and asked if he could have Sun day school class He was told he could if he would establish his own class The next Sunday he came to the church with eighteen new scholars. His means were so limited and he was so taken up with his work that he used to sleep on bench in the Y. M. c. A. rooms of Chi cago. In other ways Moody saved many dollars He was not fanatic, but it simply showed his feeling toward his fellow Christians
 In 1860, when he was twenty-three years old, Dr. Munger said the evan gelst began to devote his entire time to religious work. Three years later he esta blished a church and two years from that he was president of the Chicago Y. M. c. A., one of the most active in the country.
 The preacher said that MT. Moody never departed from his one belief, and for this we cannot be too thankful, for if he had there would hardly be a doubt that he would have left us with another denomination.
 Moody's career was like great dra- ma, the great changes being like the rCtIcS III d pltty' IHNSi y eiiiito 'SSiiSN NC | grow larger and he was always finding greater than the last. pr. | said he had the greatest faculty | of bringing things to pass than any | man in the country, and that this, to- | gether with his never ceasing intensity, | was largely due to his great success as an evangelist. He said that for sixty | years Moody had addressed five thou sand every afternoon and evening; that i he spoke to more people during his evangelistic career than any one man in the country, and that he addressed | more people on religion than any man has ever done, not even excepting John Wesley.
 MT. Moody was always opposed to the f higher criticism and said it was doing much harm, throwing some into confu- sion and others into unbelief. pr. Nun ger spoke of the beauty of MT. Moody's character and his remarkable executive ability, together forming a combination lot at all common. His generosity in he advancement of education has hardly been equalled
 The speaker referred in beautiful lines o the tender feeling that his spirit has eft in Northfield, what he has done, re- igiously and educationally, for his own own, and in conclusion, to his life dur ng the last few years. l