Season of Valor by Al Lacy

Author:Al Lacy [Lacy, Al]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-78059-1
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2011-05-04T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

While the Civil War proceeded in the South, the name of Dwight Lyman Moody, a Congregational preacher from Northfield, Massachusetts, was on the lips of Christians all over the North.

The twenty-four-year-old evangelist had been converted to Christ out of religious skepticism at seventeen years of age while working as a shoe salesman in Boston. Moody was now making his home in Chicago, and was holding great evangelistic crusades in the larger Northern cities, seeing thousands coming to the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.

Moody was closing out a series of evangelistic meetings in his hometown of Northfield on Friday, October 25, and Dr. George Adams had him scheduled to preach at First Parish Congregational Church in both morning and evening services on Sunday, October 27.

Placards on the walls of the church and of the main buildings at Bowdoin College announced Moody’s coming. There was excitement all over the Brunswick area, and Christians invited lost loved ones and friends to the services to hear the fiery young preacher.

When the big day arrived, the stout-bodied evangelist thrilled the standing-room-only crowds with powerful, straight-forward Bible preaching both morning and evening. Over a hundred citizens of Brunswick and the surrounding area responded to Moody’s impassioned pleas to come to Christ.

After the Sunday evening service, many people stood in line to meet Moody and shake his hand. He was at the front doors of the church vestibule with Dr. and Mrs. Adams, and the line stretched all the way down the center aisle of the large auditorium to the platform. The Chamberlains, the Donovans, and the O’Hanlons were in the middle of the line, which was moving very slowly. They understood why by the time they reached the vestibule. Dwight L. Moody was a warm and personable man. He took time to ask each person if they were saved. If anyone answered no, Moody quickly turned him over to the pastor, who had counselors standing by to take him aside and lead him to Christ.

Ashley leaned close to Fannie and said, “Looks like your father knew that Mr. Moody does evangelistic work at the door, too.”

“Yes. Papa hurried him away this morning, but Mr. Moody insisted on meeting the people at the door tonight. I heard Papa telling the counselors before the service this evening to be ready for this.”

When the Chamberlains finally reached the evangelist, he greeted the children first, then shook hands with Fannie and Joshua.

“Pastor’s daughter, eh?” Moody said, while shaking Fannie’s hand. “I love preacher’s kids. How long have you been saved?”

“Since I was eleven, Mr. Moody. And what a joy to know Jesus all these years!”

“Amen!” Moody then gripped Joshua’s hand and asked, “How about you, preacher’s son-in-law? How long have you been saved?”

“Since I was sixteen. I got saved up in Bangor under preaching just like yours.”

“Praise the Lord!” Moody said.

Moody also questioned the Donovans and the O’Hanlons as he shook their hands. He was happy to know they could give solid, clear-cut testimonies of their salvation.

“Mr. Moody, I’m one of the instructors at Bowdoin,” Shane said.

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