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According to YMCA historian Howard Hopkins, evangelist Dwight L. Moody is “the greatest religious figure in the first century of the American YMCA.” Moody was affiliated with the Chicago (Ill.) YMCA and pressed it in the direction of evangelism. As president of the association, he secured funding to erect the Chicago YMCA’s first building. Moody was the leading religious figure of his day, a revivalist who reached millions. He said he owed more to the YMCA than to any other organization for equipping him to do religious work. At a YMCA secretaries meeting in 1879, he said, “I would recommend a gymnasium, classes, medical lectures, social receptions, music…we do not want simply evangelistic meetings.” Moody was instrumental in establishing the YMCA’s student volunteer movement and what is now known as World Service. In 2010 he was inducted into the YMCA Hall of Fame. The book is part of the Springfield College Rare Book Collection.
is the cover of "Life and Labors of Dwight L. Moody, The Great Evangelist" written by Rev. Henry Davenport and published in 1899
