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Evangelist Dwight L. Moody 1876 sermon...
Evangelist Dwight L. Moody 1876 sermon...
Item # 721360
February 22, 1876
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, February 22, 1876
* Evangelist Dwight L. Moody's sermon
* Preaches at P.T. Barnum's Hippodrome
The top of the front page has a one column heading: "THE HIPPODROME MEETINGS" with subhead: "Mr. Moody's Sermon Last Night...". Text takes up 2 columns.
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AI notes: In February 1876, Dwight Lyman Moody launched a major evangelistic campaign at New York City’s Hippodrome, a large arena originally built for circuses and public spectacles. Beginning on February 7, Moody preached to packed audiences that sometimes numbered in the tens of thousands, with overflow crowds unable to gain entry. His sermons, delivered with his trademark urgency and clarity, emphasized themes of personal conversion, repentance, and the necessity of being “born again,” drawing on texts such as 1 Corinthians 1:27 and John 3:3. Assisted by a choir of roughly 1,200 under Ira D. Sankey and a large corps of ushers and lay workers, Moody held multiple daily services throughout the roughly ten-week campaign, which ran into mid-April. The Hippodrome was specially adapted for the revival, with over $15,000 spent on making the space functional for the scale of gatherings, and the sermons were later collected in the 1876 publication Glad Tidings: Comprising Sermons and Prayer-Meeting Talks Delivered at the N.Y. Hippodrome. This campaign is remembered as one of Moody’s most significant urban revivals, demonstrating the power of organized evangelism in a major metropolitan center and leaving a lasting impact on the American evangelical movement.
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