. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. was superseded by Since the completion of the Victoria Bridge(1860), which pennitted the Grand Trunkto enter the city, Montreal has developedsteadily and enjoyed great prosperity. Popu-lation, 1916, 638,000. MOODY, DwiGHT Lyman (1837-1899), anAmerican evangelist, born at Northfield,Mass. At the age of nineteen he engaged inmissionary work. During, the Civil War andafterward he was a conspicuous missionaryagent of the Y. M. C. A
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. was superseded by Since the completion of the Victoria Bridge(1860), which pennitted the Grand Trunkto enter the city, Montreal has developedsteadily and enjoyed great prosperity. Popu-lation, 1916, 638,000. MOODY, DwiGHT Lyman (1837-1899), anAmerican evangelist, born at Northfield,Mass. At the age of nineteen he engaged inmissionary work. During, the Civil War andafterward he was a conspicuous missionaryagent of the Y. M. C. A. in Chicago, where alarge non-sectarian church was organized,with Moody, though not ordained, as its pas-tor. His success was phenomenal. Accom-panied by Ira D. Sankey, the hj^mn singer, hemade an evangelistic tour through Englandand later in the United States, visiting thelargest cities, where the services caused a re-ligious revival. In 1879 Moody opened a sem-inary for girls at Northfield, Mass., and in1881, a seminary for boys. In 1886 hefounded Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, aschool of high rank for Bible students andmissionaries. MOON 2407 MOON. OON, a heavenly body thatrevolves about the earthin a nearly circular orbitand shines after dark witha silvery, mellow light. Itis the only satellite thatattends the earth, and tothe inhabitants of thatplanet, it is, next to thesun, the most wonderfuland interesting object inthe heavens. Measurements. Themean diameter of themoon is about 2,163 miles,or one-fourth that of theearth. Its surface is about 14,657,000 squaremiles, nearly four times the area of Europe,and about one-thirteenth the surface of theearth. The mean density of the moon is alittle over one-half that of the earth, and amass weighing one pound on the earths sur-face would weigh less than three ounces onthe moons surface. No other heavenly bodyexcepting meteors is so near to us, its aver-age distance from us being about 239,000miles. While the moon is making a re
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