Dwight L. Moody

==Legacy==
Religious historian James Findlay says that:
: Speaking before thousands in the dark business suit, bearded, rotund Dwight L. Moody seemed the epitome of the "businessman in clerical garb" who typified popular religion in late 19th-century America... Earthy, unlettered, a dynamo of energy, the revivalist was very much a man of his times... Moody adapted [[Christian revival|revivalism]], one of the major institutions of evangelical Protestantism, to the urban context. ... His organizational ability, demonstrated in the great revivals he conducted in England, combined to fashion his spectacular career as the creator of modern mass revivalism.<ref>James F. Findlay, "Moody, Dwight Lyman," and John A. Garraty, ''Encyclopedia of American Biography'' (1974) pp 772-773.</ref>

Ten years after Moody's death the Chicago Avenue Church was renamed the [[Moody Church]] in his honor, and the Chicago Bible Institute has likewise renamed the [[Moody Bible Institute]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Timothy J. Demy and Paul R. Shockley |title=Evangelical America: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Religious Culture |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9YI2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA286 |year=2017 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |pages=286–290 |isbn=9781610697743}}</ref>

[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], who was born in 1890, was named after him. During World War II, the [[Liberty ship]] {{SS|Dwight L. Moody}} was built in [[Panama City, Florida]], and named in his honor.<ref>{{cite book |last=Williams |first=Greg H. |title=The Liberty Ships of World War II: A Record of the 2,710 Vessels and Their Builders, Operators and Namesakes, with a History of the Jeremiah O'Brien |date=July 25, 2014 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1476617541 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A5oWBAAAQBAJ |access-date=December 7, 2017}}</ref>