. Review of reviews and world's work. , ruddyskin, and healthy countenance. Emotion sweptacross his face and registered its verdict as trans-parently in his old age as it did when he was achild at his mothers knee. Brusque and per-emptory as he seemed often, it was more in man-ner than in thought. F. B. Meyer says it wasoften a manner assumed to stave off adulationor make people care more for the truth than tliemessenger. Mr. Moodys eldest son bore tes-timony at his fathers funeral that his fathersquickness to ask forgiveness of his children for DWIGHT L. MOODY: A CHARACTER SKETCft. 173 hasty
. Review of reviews and world's work. , ruddyskin, and healthy countenance. Emotion sweptacross his face and registered its verdict as trans-parently in his old age as it did when he was achild at his mothers knee. Brusque and per-emptory as he seemed often, it was more in man-ner than in thought. F. B. Meyer says it wasoften a manner assumed to stave off adulationor make people care more for the truth than tliemessenger. Mr. Moodys eldest son bore tes-timony at his fathers funeral that his fathersquickness to ask forgiveness of his children for DWIGHT L. MOODY: A CHARACTER SKETCft. 173 hasty words spoken to them liad, along with hisother virtues, made the father a hero to liis ownchildren—which all prominent Christian teachersare not. Mr. Mootlys chivalrous devotion to hismother, Mrs. Betsey Moody, made all who wit-nessed it believe that he cherished in his heartEmersons saying to Carlyle : The best son isnot a good-enough son. Here it may be proper to say that the biogra-pher of Moody will find his family life and do-. Copyright, 1898, by Towne & Whitney. DWIOHT L. MOODY. (From photo taken in 1898.) meslic fate very unlike that of the great JohnWesley, whom as an organizer he so much re-sembled. Mr. Moody and Miss Emma C. Revell,of Chicago, were married in 1862, and from thatday on she was his sympathetic comrade. Theyfirst met in a mission Sunday-school, where shetaught and where Mr. Moody was offered a classif he would gather it himself. The next Sundayhe appeared with eighteen bareheaded, bare-footed, ragged, dirty urchins. The art of attaining means through indirec-tion Mr. Moody never mastered. He always wentstraight to the mark, and having had his wayso invariably during the early years of his cam-paigning as an evangelist, it became not onlyfirst, but second nature with him to decide everydetail of administration, to formulate every planof campaign. And such was his power overmenand such their confidence in his sincerity ofmotive that seldom was his autho
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