Dwight Moody Biography

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For my Biography paper, I am writing about the life of Dwight L. moody. He took no credit for his work and achievements. He didn’t even care about his failures. This made him the man that he would end up being in life. For over 200 years his family lived in the seclusion of their farm homes in the Connecticut valley. They didn’t really do a lot of public things with the community. There were only a couple of professional men in the family, and they struggled in the beginning. Their family counted their long lived lives not to a prince or riches of privileges, but for the most part their jobs were bounded by limitations. They served their lives, day in and day out, in the simple style of life. Even when they were pioneers they were still successful. These characteristics and traits distinguished his family and ancestors in respect. Moody was lucky to inherit all these things from his ancestors. He also inherited the great endurance and ability to work hard from them. He developed these traits at an early age and they stayed with him his whole life. John moody was the first of his family to land in America. He made it to the states in 1633 settling in Roxbury. Later on in his life, he moved to Connecticut Valley where they eventually lived the …show more content…

Moody moved to Chicago out of nowhere. He didn’t even let his family know that he was leaving because he thought that they wouldn’t approve of the move. They didn’t find out until Dwight had already made it there. They had to find out through a letter that he had written them when he was 1000 miles away in Western city. This made his mother upset, because she loved having all of her family close to her. Dwight was the first in his family to step out on his own in life. He made it to Chicago in early autumn of 1856. It only took him two days to get a job. He started to attend prayer meeting and that is where he made all of his friends. Chicago for the most part was a very religious city and the young Moody enjoyed

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