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Oct 18, 2026
Luke LezonHOST
Amen.
Luke LezonHOST
Well, on February the 5th, 1837, a man by the name of Dwight Lyman Moody was born in Northfield, Massachusetts.
Luke LezonHOST
His father died very early on in his life.
Luke LezonHOST
He was just four years old.
Kerby AndersonHOST
Let's, if we can, get into this because one of the things that I thought was so interesting early on is that you have visited both graves.
Kerby AndersonHOST
Now, it's not surprising that as the pastor of Moody Church, many times you were in Northfield, Massachusetts and visited the grave of D.L. Moody.
Kerby AndersonHOST
But then when you were in London, you also stood at the grave of Karl Marx.
Kerby AndersonHOST
And that relates very much, I'll hold up our booklet, Biblical Point of View on Socialism, that I wrote a while back, in which I argue, and you do as well, that even though he is gone, Karl Marx still rules from the grave, doesn't he?
Alex McFarlandHOST
Indeed, indeed.
Alex McFarlandHOST
The Northfield, Massachusetts campus, do you know what they do there these days? Is that facility still in use?
Erwin LutzerGUEST
The facility recently, it's a few years ago, is in use.
Erwin LutzerGUEST
There's a Catholic organization that teaches the, I forget the name of it.
Frank TurekHOST
Mm-hmm.
Erwin LutzerGUEST
Moody was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, in a very poor home.
Erwin LutzerGUEST
Father dies at the age when Moody, when D.L. Moody, Dwight L. Moody, is eight years old.
Erwin LutzerGUEST
His mother has to farm out some of the kids for their benefit, because they don't have enough food.
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Erwin LutzerGUEST
On Moody's, hi- his, her husband, Dwight Moody, uh, is the epitaph that says, um, "He who does the will of God abides forever." And what I do in the book is, the reason that the subtitle says Two Contemporaries, Two Gospels, Two Tombstones, I take the reader to the, to the various, to the tombstones, Karl Marx and then Moody, and contrast their legacies, that here are two people who greatly influenced...
Erwin LutzerGUEST
Moody, by the way, began schools.
Erwin LutzerGUEST
He was the first man to begin a girls' school i- in Northfield and so forth.
Erwin LutzerGUEST
This visionary man whose impact still continues today around the world.
Robert J. MorganHOST
Whittle said, "Then we cleared the space and I said, 'Now you men that want to come to God and want to become Christians, come forward here and let us kneel down.' And I think a hundred men pressed forward and knelt upon the ground under the trees as we cried to God that he would reveal his dear Son to them." He said scenes like this were repeated night after night.
Robert J. MorganHOST
Whittle poured so much of his remaining strength into the soldiers that he returned to his daughter's home in Northfield, Massachusetts, debilitated.
Robert J. MorganHOST
Stebbins later recalled, "The last work Major Whittle did was among the soldiers in the camp during the Spanish-American War.
Robert J. MorganHOST
He cherished the memories of his army life many years before, and he loved men.
Robert J. MorganHOST
I think he was more cheerful then than he was in the days of his health and strength.
Robert J. MorganHOST
He always greeted me with a smile and a triumphant look in his eyes.
Robert J. MorganHOST
Every time I left Northfield, he wanted to know where I was going, and he wanted the results as soon as I returned that I was able to tell him of how his prayer had been answered in this place and that, and he seemed greatly cheered.
Robert J. MorganHOST
The last months of his life were given up largely to the ministry of prayer." Well, Major Daniel Whittle had once written this about prayer.
Brannon HowseHOST
Uh, he's buried in what, Massachusetts? Is that right?
Erwin LutzerGUEST
Yeah, in Northfield, Massachusetts.
Erwin LutzerGUEST
He and his wife are buried in the same cemetery close together.
Erwin LutzerGUEST
Their tombstones look exactly alike.
Erwin LutzerGUEST
One of the things about this book, is that it is not only an expose of Marx, but I learned so much from Greg Quiggle regarding Moody, all of the things he was involved in, education.
Erwin LutzerGUEST
He began a girls' school out in Northfield, and then a boys' school, and on and on.
Erwin LutzerGUEST
The YMCA, orphanages, everything.
Erwin LutzerGUEST
But in answer to your question today, Absolutely, we have to understand what is going on.
Erwin LutzerGUEST
And just think today of the continuing impact of his life.
Erwin LutzerGUEST
Moody Bible Institute, Moody Church, still some works over in
Erwin LutzerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Northfield,
Erwin LutzerGUEST
Massachusetts, where he was born.
Erwin LutzerHOST
And actually, he was ahead of his time.
Erwin LutzerHOST
Now, he began Moody Bible Institute, but also some schools in Northfield, Massachusetts.
Erwin LutzerHOST
We don't have time to list them all, but what ethnicities were there
Greg QuiggleGUEST
in those schools two things about those schools number one they were only for poor kids and number two they were racially diverse so you have african americans ex-slaves native americans asian americans and caucasians so they were very diverse ethnically
Erwin LutzerHOST
And actually, he was ahead of his time.
Erwin LutzerHOST
Now, he began Moody Bible Institute, but also some schools in Northfield, Massachusetts.
Erwin LutzerHOST
We don't have time to list them all, but, uh, what ethnicities were there in those schools?
Greg QuiggleGUEST
Two things about those schools.
Erwin LutzerHOST
Okay, when was he born?
Greg QuiggleGUEST
1837, he's born in rural Massachusetts, what they refer to as Western Mass in the town of Northfield, right by the Vermont-New Hampshire border, right on the Connecticut River.
Greg QuiggleGUEST
He is born on his mother's birthday.
Greg QuiggleGUEST
And the family is actually quite poor.
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