INTRODUCTION: REMEMBERING MR MOODY Timothy George On 22 December 1899, Dwight Lyman Moody died in Northfield, Massachusetts, the same small New England town in which he had been born twenty-four years before the American Civil War began. Newspapers around the world echoed the headlines of the New York Times: ‘Dwight L. Moody is dead.’ Years before, Moody had anticipated this moment in a famous quip: ‘Someday you will read in the papers that D. L. Moody of East Northfield is dead. Don’t you believe
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