. Review of reviews and world's work. publishing estab-j^,,|^ ylishments in Chicago and at Northfield ...which issue inexpensive religious literature, and the use of the educational plant at Northfieldeach summer for the annual conferences of cler-gynien, college students, missionary volunteers,Young Mens Christian Association and YoungWomens Christian Association workers. Inshort, as a discriminating critic has said, he notonly won battles, but organized the fruits of vic-tory. To quote Rev. Dr. George C. Lorimer,he was the U. S. Grant or Wellington amongChristian warriors ; to quote
. Review of reviews and world's work. publishing estab-j^,,|^ ylishments in Chicago and at Northfield ...which issue inexpensive religious literature, and the use of the educational plant at Northfieldeach summer for the annual conferences of cler-gynien, college students, missionary volunteers,Young Mens Christian Association and YoungWomens Christian Association workers. Inshort, as a discriminating critic has said, he notonly won battles, but organized the fruits of vic-tory. To quote Rev. Dr. George C. Lorimer,he was the U. S. Grant or Wellington amongChristian warriors ; to quote Rev. F. B. Meyer,he was the Von Moltke of the religious worldin the United States. John McNeill also callshim the AVellington of the evangelistic army ;and it is suggestive to know that Mr. Moody wasan admirer of Napoleon, considered as an organ-izing mind. Mr. Moody, viewed solely as an administrator,as an agent for the benefactions of men ofwealth, as a transniuter of money into brick,stone, books, tracts, and educational parapher-. Courtesy of McClures Magazine. MR. MOODY AT TWENPY-SIX. nalia, ranks as one of the great men of the cen-tury, independent of any estimate of his mora!or spiritual significance. Scotland, Ireland, England, and the United States are dotted wiihYoung Mens Christian Association buildingsand Bible institutes of which he laid the , metaphorically speaking, if not a salesman in a Chicago shoe store he soldmore goods than any other clerk, and had heremained in the business he probably would havebeen at the head of a shoe manufacturingtrust at the time of his death. Possessingthis power, he won the confidence of a class of DIVIGHT L. MOODY: A CHARACTER SKETCH. 165 men whom the ordinary traditional evangelistnever had enlisted in Christian work, and forthe last thirty years Mr. Moody had only tomake his desires known to responsible men ofwealth in the United States and Great Britain—men like John V. Farwell and the McCormicksin Ch
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