Moody’s background gave few hints of his future greatness. He was the sixth of nine children born to Edwin, a skilled mason, and his wife Betsey. He was only four when his father died and his mother joined the local Unitarian church. The minister was a moderate which probably explains why he baptized the Moody children in the name of the Triune God. Later Betsey Moody embraced a more orthodox faith under the preaching of her famous son. Though Moody would later become a great apostle to the cities,