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Dwight L. Moody was one of America’s most eminent Victorians. Revered as an evangelist throughout the English-speaking world, he was admired across denominational as well as national boundaries.

He was also something of a representative American. The most lovable of men to his many admirers, he was plain-spoken and mostly self-taught.

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He had been wounded, probably deeply, by his culture’s individualism. He was also emancipated by it.

Moody’s was the story of a self-made man. Born in Massachusetts in 1837, he survived an impoverished childhood to achieve success in the frontier city of Chicago.

But Chicago was a lonely place for a young man barely out of his teens and rife with life-threatening temptations.

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So Moody’s spiritual hungers grew even as he prospered financially. He was soon involved in a more profound kind of self-transformation, though here too the tale is emblematically American. At least nominally converted prior