. Echoes from the pulpit and platform : or, Living truths for head and heart ; illustrated by upwards of five hundred thrilling anecdotes and incidents, personal experiences, touching home scenes, and stories of tender pathos drawn from the bright and shady sides of life. 863 (^vhen he was twenty-six) he raised, by his own un-aided efforts. $20,000 and erected on Illinois Street, not farfrom the Tslarket Street mission, a commodious church withtower and spire for hisgreat and growing Sabbath-school. There was a con-tinuous stream of convertsto the life which he held upas the divine ideal. What
. Echoes from the pulpit and platform : or, Living truths for head and heart ; illustrated by upwards of five hundred thrilling anecdotes and incidents, personal experiences, touching home scenes, and stories of tender pathos drawn from the bright and shady sides of life. 863 (^vhen he was twenty-six) he raised, by his own un-aided efforts. $20,000 and erected on Illinois Street, not farfrom the Tslarket Street mission, a commodious church withtower and spire for hisgreat and growing Sabbath-school. There was a con-tinuous stream of convertsto the life which he held upas the divine ideal. Whatto do with them became aserious question. Becausethey were poor and ignorantthey did not fit into themenil)ership of neighboringchurches. He was thereforeshut up to the necessity oforganizing- a church of hisown. The problem of itsecclesiastical and re-lationships, of course, called a council of min-isters and the subject was debated at length, but the rev-erend theologians not being able to arrive at any satisfactoryconclusion he cut the knot (he has cut more knots thanany man who ever lived) and organized it upon an absolutelyindependent ])asis. Into its development as a settled, inde-pendent, unordained, free-lance minister (the friend of every. DWIOHT L. MOODY AT THE AGE OF 26. {From a Photograph.) 46 LIFE OF DWIGHT L. .MOODY. church and the enemy of none) he now plunged with all hisheart. Such bushwhacking work was surely never done onearth before! It was as original as if it had been the first everundertaken ! But it went! Everything he touched did ! Heworked into it every kind of material upon which he could layhis hands, as birds build their nests. All that came to his millwas grist, and he gathered around himself a band of helperswho for zeal and faithfulness and devotion to their leader mightbe called apostles. The love between them and their leader wasromantic and worthy of the noblest souls. They did any-thing and everything he told them to. If the
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