Moody's work in Chicago, Illinois led to the largest Sunday School of his time. He labored so abundantly that within a year the average attendance at his school was 650, while sixty volunteers from various churches served as teachers.  It became so well known that the just-elected President Lincoln visited and spoke at a Sunday School meeting on November 25, 1860.

After the Civil War started, he was involved with the U.S. Christian Commission of the YMCA, and ministered at several battlefields.  He started a church in Chicago that was burnt down in the Great Chicago Fire.  It was rebuilt within three months.  His lay follower William Eugene Blackstone was a prominent American Zionist.

It was in a trip to England that he became well known as an evangelist, to the point that some have claimed he was the greatest evangelist of the 19th century.  His preaching had an impact as great as that of George Whitefield and John Wesley within Britain, Scotland and Ireland.  On several occasions he filled stadiums of 2,000 to 4,000 capacity. In the Botanic Gardens Palace, a meeting had between 15,000 to 30,000 people.  This turnout continued throughout 1874 and 1875, with crowds of thousands at all of his meetings. When he returned to the United States, crowds of 12,000 to 20,000 were just as common as in England.  President Grant and some of his cabinet attended a meeting on January 19, 1876.  His evangelistic meetings were held from Boston to New York, throughout New England and as far as San Francisco, and other West coast towns from Vancouver to San Diego.  He preached his last sermon on November 16, 1899.

D.L. Moody Quotes

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead.  Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now.  I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855.  That which is born of the flesh may die.  That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever. 

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church ... is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

Works by D.L. Moody

Secret Power

The Way Home

Sowing and Reaping

Spiritual Power

Men God Challenged

Calvary's Cross

The Way to God

Prevailing Prayer