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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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. HERMON SCHOOL BUILDINGS. Copyright, 18991 by the Biglow & Main Co. IRA D. SANKEY. Mr. Moody might have known a great deal morethan he ever knew about the history of Chris-tian doctrine, the exact composition of the Pen-tateuch, and the relative influence of heredityand environment; and the Unitarian or Trinita-rian Congregational denominations might havehad another Theodore Parker orHenry Ward Beecher. For noteven the deindividualizing processof our present educational machin-ery could have radically changedso vital a personality as jSIr. Moody.But his life record would have beendifferent and the range of his directpopular influence narrowed. Thecareers of Henry Drummond andPhillips Brooks prove that men canbe both broad and deep, scholarlyand evangelistic. Mr. Moody mighthave been another such had he goneto college and the seminary. If so,with his tremendous .energy, utterabandonment to Gods will, andgreat executive power, he would 168 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REl/IEiV OF RE^IEIVS.
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Talcott Library. Skinner Gymnasium. Stone Hall. GROUP OF NORTHFIELD SEMINARY BUILDINGS. Marquand Hall. iiave taken rank with such leaders as Luther andJohn Wesley. That Mr. Moody realized his limitations inhis saner, more normal moods cannot be doubted.AVhen Mr. Gladstone met him and said to Mr.Moody, I wish I had your body, Mr. Moodysreply was more creditable to his discernment andhis innate courtesy than was Mr. Gladstones re-mark to him. Mr. Moody replied: I wishI had your head. In moral power, a desireto have righteousness done among men of theirtime, the two men were singularly alike, and metas equals. When Mr. Moody sent his sons toYale University he decided as so many otherfathers have done—namely, that his sons shouldhave privileges which he missed in youth and f Iomwhicli lack he had suffered continually. Whenhe founded the schools for girls at East North-field and for boys at Mt. Hermon he recognizeddistinctly that there were scores of farmersboys and girls in the adjacent

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