The Works of Dwight L. Moody (26 vols.)

by Dwight Lyman Moody; J. B. McClure; Emma Moody Fitt; William R. Moody

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2 more

Publishers:

Fleming H. Revell; Rhodes & McClure; The Bookstore; John Snow

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2 more

, 1875–1900

Overview

“A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.” D. L. Moody was considered one of the greatest evangelists of the 19th century. His ability to tell memorable stories about faith and the Bible drew crowds wherever he preached. His legacy remains not only in the institutions he founded, such as Moody Church and the Moody Bible Institute, but in the enduring words he left for future generations of Christians. The Works of Dwight L. Moody brings together 26 volumes of Moody’s inspiring and timeless works.

The Works of Dwight L. Moody (26 vols.) contains hundreds of his sermons and addresses, plus his works on heaven, grace, prayer, the ten commandments, Christian living, and his studies on biblical characters. Also included is Notes from My Bible: from Genesis to Revelation—the marginal notes from Moody’s Bible—and the practical Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study. The collection contains two biographies on his unique and inspiring life, and also a daily devotional containing Moody’s reflections on a passage of Scripture for each day of the year.

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Key Features

• Hundreds of sermons and addresses by D. L. Moody
• A D. L. Moody daily devotional
• Works on heaven, grace, the ten commandments, prayer, Christian living, biblical characters, and more

Praise for D. L. Moody

There can be no need for us to commend the living, blazing speech of our brother Moody. Who can equal him in natural simplicity all aglow with holy passion?

—Charles Spurgeon

By the strenuous cultivation of his gift Mr. Moody has attained to a clear and incisive style which preachers ought to study; and he has the merit, which many more cultivated men lack, of saying nothing that does not tend to the enforcement of the particular truth he is enunciating. He knows how to disencumber his text of all extraneous matter, and exhibits his wisdom as a preacher hardly less by what he leaves out than what he includes. Apart from its primary purpose, each of these books has a distinct value as a lesson on homiletics to ministers and students.

—Christian Leader

Anything from the pen of this renowned evangelist will be read with interest.

—Index

For sanity, sincerity, spirituality, and success Moody goes into the very first rank of revival preachers.

—The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge

Product Details

• Title: The Works of Dwight L. Moody
• Volumes: 26
• Pages: 4,880

Heaven: Where It Is, Its Inhabitants, and How to Get There

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1884
• Pages: 119

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In under 4 years, Heaven: Where It Is, Its Inhabitants, and How to Get There sold over 90,000 copies! In Moody’s exploration of the afterlife, he provides illustrations based in the Scriptures as well as anecdotal thoughts on the hope, inhabitants, happiness, certainty, riches, and rewards of heaven.

Mr. Moody is sure of an audience, and well deserves a large one for this book.

—Presbyterian Witness

Mr. Moody’s unfaltering faith and rugged enthusiasm are manifested on every page.

—Christian Advocate

Eminently Scriptural, earnest and impressive, will be welcomed by thousands.

—Zion’s Herald

Characterized by his apt, homely illustrations and not a few pithy anecdotes, such as few can equal.

—The Advance

A Most acceptable monogram in its author’s own short, pointed, monosyllabic, Anglo-Saxon style.

—Herald of Truth

Abounds in apt and telling illustration.

—The Standard

The clear, Scriptural, common sense treatment of this subject by Mr. Moody has been commended in the highest terms by leading theologians in Europe and America, while the common people have heard them everywhere with gladness.

—Central Baptist

One Thousand and One Thoughts from My Library

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1898
• Pages: 396

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Do you ever wish you could combine your favorite Bible teacher’s thoughts into one commentary? D. L. Moody scoured his massive library for the best notes, anecdotes, thoughts, ponderings, teachings—in short, whatever he felt brought clarification and better meaning to the Bible—from his favorite authors. From Genesis to Revelation, Moody has selected passages and paired them with selections from author’s and preachers such as Charles Spurgeon, F. B. Meyer, John Fletcher, Horatius Bonar, G. Campbell Morgan, and hundreds more.

These are the best sayings and writings of some two hundred of the most distinguished Bible students. They are conveniently arranged, each thought or quotation under a Scripture text, beginning at Genesis and ending at Revelation. Ministers will welcome this book, it will give them many new and useful thoughts.

—The Preacher’s Assistant

Full of sound and helpful religious counsel, meditation, and aspiration. All are earnest, practical, pointed—just such ‘words of season’ as a man of Mr. Moody’s thoroughgoing, everyday Christianity would find spiritually nourishing. The authors drawn upon are the best religious writers of the day, and the book is one which will be a help to many who need a cheering word now and then.

—The Christian Advocate

Notes from My Bible: from Genesis to Revelation

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1895
• Pages: 236

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This volume contains all of the marginal notes from D. L. Moody’s Bible, and consists of illustrations, anecdotes, references, and brief outlines of sermons. Notes From My Bible: from Genesis to Revelation also includes the extensive miscellaneous notes Moody kept tucked in his Bible concerning the Lord’s Prayer, Christ on the Mount of Olives, similes of union between Christ and the believer, and dozens more.

These ‘Notes’ are the accumulation of a lifetime in gospel and revival work. They will recall for those who have heard Mr. Moody many of his homely illustrations and many of his helpful groupings of facts and truths.

—Homiletic Review

From beginning to end, the comments are full of the plain common sense which has made Mr. Moody’s sermons and writings famous throughout the English speaking world. The book will prove invaluable to preachers and teachers.

—The Christian Advocate

“To the Work! To the Work!”: Exhortations to Christians

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1884
• Pages: 146

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This volume contains nine addresses which D. L. Moody delivered to Christian workers over the course of a year. “To the Work! To the Work!”: Exhortations to Christians is a call to action for Christians to pursue active, personal, aggressive work for God.

Prevailing Prayer: What Hinders It

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1885
• Pages: 119

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“The two first and essential means of grace are the Word of God and prayer.” Prevailing Prayer is an earnest and solemn work, full of helpful hints on the aids and hindrances of prayer. Topics include the prayers of the Bible, adoration, confession, restitution, thanksgiving, forgiveness, unity, faith, petition, submission, and answered prayers.

Secret Power, or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Christian Work

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1881
• Pages: 116

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The Secret of Success in Christian Life and Christian Work is Moody’s exploration of Matthew 28:19–20. As he notes in the preface, “If we would work, ‘not as one that beateth the air,’ but to some definite purpose, we must have this power from on high. Without this power, our work will be drudgery. With it, it becomes a joyful task, a refreshing service.”

It is a good statement of the secret success in Christian life, by one who has some claim to speak on such a theme.

—Outlook

This series of earnest and solemn addresses bear throughout that stamp of honest, eager earnestness, which is so striking a characteristic of the writer’s labors as a preacher.

—Clerical World

Twelve Select Sermons

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1884
• Pages: 136

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The 12 sermons contained in this volume are considered some of Moody’s very best. They cover Genesis 3, Romans 3:22, 1 Corinthians 15, Luke 19:10, Isaiah 55:6, Matthew 22:42, Luke 14:18–20, Leviticus 17:2, and a two-part sermon on heaven.

With the effect of these addresses when spoken, the whole land is acquainted, and now that they are written, they will tend to keep in force the impressions they have already made.

—Methodist

Mr. Moody’s happy style, abounding in striking anecdote and illustration, make it a most readable and convincing volume.

—The Watchman

Full of earnest enthusiasm which characterizes everything Mr. Moody does, and it will read with interest.

—Detroit Free Press

New Sermons, Addresses, and Prayers

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Henry S. Goodspeed Co.
• Publication Date: 1877
• Pages: 704

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New Sermons, Addresses, and Prayers contains 73 sermons and 24 addresses by D. L. Moody, as well as 10 illustrations. Includes the popular sermons “How Memory Torments the Lost Soul”, “Who Are Christians?”, and “What to Do with Doubts.”

Anecdotes, Incidents, and Illustrations

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1898
• Pages: 127

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Anecdotes, Incidents, and Illustrations is packed to the brim with the anecdotes and stories that D. L. Moody was known for. The stories run 1–2 pages, sometimes Moody only needs a paragraph to illustrate his point. Entertaining, inspiring, funny, moving—but always memorable. A trove of Godly wisdom and thought provoking stories, Anecdotes, Incidents, and Illustrations is great for sermon ideas and small group discussion.

No man has ever known how to use such illustrations better than D. L. Moody. I have heard him preach for an hour, and looking back, it seemed like one single string of stories, with scarcely anything between. And yet, they had all been pertinent to his subject; they had been told, not for the story, but because they made his subject live in the minds and hearts of the people before him.

—Rev. Louis Albert Banks, Homiletic Review

Moody’s Stories: Being a Second Volume of Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1899
• Pages: 122

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Moody’s Stories: Being a Second Volume of Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations is a collection of valuable teaching tools from D. L. Moody. Included in this volume are stories that run 1–2 pages, but sometimes Moody only needs a paragraph to illustrate his point. Entertaining, inspiring, funny, moving—but always memorable. A trove of godly wisdom and thought-provoking stories, Moody’s Stories: Being a Second Volume of Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations is great for sermon ideas and small group discussion.

Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1895
• Pages: 123

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Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study is D. L. Moody’s fast-paced and practical guidebook on how to get the most out of your Bible study. Useful and direct, Moody’s tips for Bible study can be applied to any level of personal and group study or Sunday school class.

Every page reveals the faith, directness, practical spirit, and other well known characteristics of the great revivalist.

—Review of Reviews

This is one of those interesting and profitable monographs on the benefits of studying the Bible, and the right way of doing so, which no man can better write than Mr. Moody.

—Christian Work

Sovereign Grace: Its Source, Its Nature, and Its Effects

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1891
• Pages: 119

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Sovereign Grace: Its Source, Its Nature, and Its Effects is a collection of addresses by D. L. Moody focused on various aspects of the doctrine of grace. This volume also contains Moody’s Gospel Dialogues: “What It Is to be a Child of God”, “How to Become a Christian”, and “What It Is to be Converted”.

Sowing and Reaping

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1896
• Pages: 123

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Sowing and Reaping contains the following eight addresses on Galatians 6:7–8 by D. L. Moody:

• “Sowing and Reaping”
• “Be Not Deceived: God Is Not Mocked”
• “When a Man Sows, He Expects to Reap”
• “A Man Reaps the Same Kind He Sows”
• “A Man Reaps More than He Sows”
• “Ignorance of the Seed Makes No Difference”
• “Forgiveness and Retribution”
• “Warning”

Weighed and Wanting: Addresses on the Ten Commandments

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1898
• Pages: 125

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Weighed and Wanting: Addresses on the Ten Commandments contains the following 13 addresses by D. L. Moody on the Ten Commandments:

• “The Ten Commandments”
• “Weighed in the Balances”
• “The First Commandment”
• “The Second Commandment”
• “The Third Commandment”
• “The Fourth Commandment”
• “The Fifth Commandment”
• “The Sixth Commandment”
• “The Seventh Commandment”
• “The Eighth Commandment”
• “The Ninth Commandment”
• “The Tenth Commandment”
• “The Handwriting Blotted Out”

Men of the Bible

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1898
• Pages: 126

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Men of the Bible contains seven powerful addresses on seven key men from the Bible:

• “Abraham’s Four Surrenders”
• “The Call of Moses”
• “Naaman the Syrian”
• “The Prophet Nehemiah”
• “Herod and John the Baptist”
• “The Man Born Blind and Joseph of Arimathea”
• “The Penitent Thief”

Bible Characters

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1888
• Pages: 122

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“The ways of God with different men, in different periods, and under different circumstances, yet always revealing the same wisdom, love and power, have filled me with wonder and with praise.” Moody shares his wonder with addresses on Daniel, Enoch, Lot, Jacob, and John the Baptist.

The Way to God and How to Find It

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1884
• Pages: 127

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How can man be just with God? D. L. Moody answers this question in the following nine addresses:

• “Love That Passeth Knowledge”
• “The Gateway into the Kingdom”
• “The Two Classes”
• “Words of Counsel”
• “A Divine Savior”
• “Repentance and Restitution”
• “Assurance of Salvation”
• “Christ All and in All”
• “Backsliding”

Moody’s Latest Sermons

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1900
• Pages: 126

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Moody’s Latest Sermons contains the following seven sermons:

• “The Ninety-First Psalm”
• “The Eighth Chapter of Romans”
• “Temptation”
• “Four Questions from God”
• “The Transfiguration”
• “Mary and Martha”
• “Revivals”

The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons

• Author: D. L. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1896
• Pages: 127

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The Overcoming Life contains the following nine sermons:

• “The Overcoming Life”
  • Part 1: The Christian’s Warfare
  • Part 2: Internal Foes
  • Part 3: External Foes

• “Results of True Repentance”
• “True Wisdom”
• “Come Thou and All Thy House into the Ark”
• “Humility”
• “Rest”
• “Seven ‘I Wills’ of Christ”

The Shorter Life of D. L. Moody: His Life, vol. 1

• Authors: Paul Dwight Moody and Arthur Percy Fitt
• Publisher: Bible Institute Colportage Association
• Publication Date: 1900
• Pages: 126

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The Shorter Life of D. L. Moody is divided into two volumes: the first on his life; the second on his work. Written by his son Paul and his son-in-law A. P. Fitt, volume one provides intimate details of his life growing up poor after the early death of his father, his eventual conversion to Christianity, and the events that led to him become one of the country’s most celebrated preachers. Includes photos and interviews with family and friends.

Paul Dwight Moody (1879–1947), son of D. L. Moody, served as a pastor at South Gongregational Church in St. Johnsbury, VT. He then served as president of Middlebury College 1921–1943.

The Shorter Life of D. L. Moody: His Work, vol. 2

• Authors: Paul Dwight Moody and Arthur Percy Fitt
• Publisher: Bible Institute Colportage Association
• Publication Date: 1900
• Pages: 122

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The Shorter Life of D. L. Moody is divided into two volumes: the first on his life; the second on his work. Written by his son Paul and his son-in-law A. P. Fitt, volume two covers the beginning of his career in Chicago, and follows Moody’s rise to become of the country’s most celebrated preachers. Includes photos and interviews with family and friends.

Paul Dwight Moody (1879–1947), son of D. L. Moody, served as a pastor at South Gongregational Church in St. Johnsbury, VT. He then served as president of Middlebury College 1921–1943.

Anecdotes and Illustrations of D. L. Moody Related by Him in His Revival Work

• Editor: J. B. McClure
• Publisher: Rhodes & McClure
• Publication Date: 1881
• Pages: 192

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Editor J. B. McClure compiled over 200 of D. L. Moody’s anecdotes and illustrations. They are arranged by subject matter, as well as listed alphabetically. These stories were used in Moody’s revival work in both Europe and America.

It is a good insight into the workings and teachings of the great Evangelist.

—New Orleans Daily Democrat

A book of Anecdotes which have thrilled hundreds of thousands.

—Presbyterian Banner

Excellent reading.

—Standard

Contains the pith of Moody’s theology, methods, and eloquence.

—Interior

The book has been compiled by Rev. J. B. McClure, whose scholarship and journalistic experience perfectly fit him to do the work discriminatingly and well.

—Christian Advocate

They are short, pointed, peculiarly apt, as are all the illustrations of the Evangelist. They form the arrows of the great marksman, and have done much of the execution of his sermons.

—Zion’s Herald

There are many who will prize this book as a treasure-house stored with weapons for war, and instruments for service.

—International Lesson Monthly

Moody’s sayings are wonderfully strong, and his stories are well pointed and striking. It is a good work for Christ and for the truth to gather and publish them.

—Jonathan Edwards (1866–1869), first president of Washington & Jefferson College

James Baird McClure was the author and editor of numerous works, including General Garfield: From the Log House to the Whitehouse, Abraham Lincoln’s Stories and Speeches, and Stories, Sketches, and Speeches of General Grant at Home and Abroad, in Peace and in War.

D. L. Moody’s Child Stories Related by Him in His Revival Work

• Editor: J. B. McClure
• Publisher: Rhodes & McClure
• Publication Date: 1877
• Pages: 149

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This volume comprises all the stories D. L. Moody has told about children in his great revival work in Europe and America. Dozens of pen and ink illustrations accompany the text.

An excellent book and I most heartily endorse it, and commend it to every family.

—L. Hitchcock

They are in a style to interest children, while apt and suggestive, and illustrative of evangelical truth. Mr. McClure in this, and the volume of Moody’s anecdotes, has proved his skill as an editor, and renders a highly accomplished service to those who love the truth in its simplicity and sweetness.

—Standard

The stories themselves all bear upon Christian life, and show the power of truth on young minds.

—Interior

Life Words from Gospel Addresses of D. L. Moody

• Editor: G. F. G. Royle
• Publisher: John Snow and Co.
• Publication Date: 1875
• Pages: 128

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Life Words from Gospel Addresses of D. L. Moody contains extracts from D. L. Moody’s sermons delivered in Glasgow, Manchester, and London in 1874.

The D. L. Moody Year Book: A Living Daily Message from the Words of D. L. Moody

• Editor: Emma Moody Fitt
• Publisher: The Bookstore
• Publication Date: 1900
• Pages: 234

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Emma Moody Fitt, D. L. Moody’s daughter, has compiled a daily devotional for an entire year of Moody! Each day of the year begins with Scripture, followed by a short nugget of wisdom from Moody reflecting on the passage. Moody’s words uplift the heart and inspire new ways of thinking about the Bible. With Logos, you can set The D. L. Moody Year Book: A Living Daily Message from the Words of D. L. Moody as your daily devotional on your homepage, and since the readings are arranged by calendar date, the book will automatically open at the next set of readings.

The Life of Dwight L. Moody

• Author: William R. Moody
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell
• Publication Date: 1900
• Pages: 590

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The Life of Dwight L. Moody was written by his son, William R. Moody, in accordance with the request made by his father shortly before he died. Although William was without extensive literary experience, he undertook the preparation of this biography with the purpose of correcting inaccuracies and misstatements that were being published in other "unauthorized" biographies. The lack of experience did not hinder the project, as The Life of Dwight L. Moody is a complete and remarkable record of the great evangelist, and William has garnished the volume with more than 100 photos from the family archive.

A great deal of unpublished material relative to Mr. Moody’s early life has been incorporated in this work, while the aims and purposes of the institutions which he built up in later years are well set forth. The friends of Mr. Moody will find in this volume a satisfactory record of his noble life work.

—Review of Reviews

There cannot be a moment’s hesitation in pronouncing this life of the departed evangelist, written by his son, William R. Moody, to be beyond question the desirable volume for the purchaser.

—Methodist Review

Such a life as this makes it easy to believe not only that his influence will be immortal, but also that he himself is alive forever.

—The New World: A Quarterly Review of Religion, Ethics, and Theology

About Dwight Lyman Moody

Dwight Lyman Moody (1837–1899) was born in Northfield, Mass. His father died soon after, and Moody was forced to work to support the family at an early age. In 1854, Moody took a job at his uncle’s shoe store and one of the conditions upon employment was that he should regularly attend his uncle’s church. It was at this church where his conversion took place. He moved to Chicago in 1856, and after working as a successful Sunday-school teacher and building a membership of 1,500 pupils, the Illinois Street Church was formed. He then began his revival work, which would become his life-long endeavor.

Beginning in 1872, Moody would travel and preach in Great Britain, winning the esteem of many prominent evangelicals. When he returned to America, he had invitations all over the country for speaking engagements. For the next 20 years, Moody would travel the globe, packing churches and revival halls with those wanting to hear him preach. He was honest, preached a Calvinistic creed which he accepted with all his heart, and was a master of an effective style. During all of his travels, he found time to write and publish numerous works.

Moody was also known for the educational institutions he started. The Illinois Street Church he started was later renamed in his honor to Moody Church. In 1886, Moody established the Chicago Evangelization Society for the education and training of Christian workers. This institution was renamed the Moody Bible Institute in his honor after he passed away in 1899.