The Day Moody Stopped Preaching from an Empty Well
In the autumn of 1871, Dwight L. Moody was already filling auditoriums across America. Yet two women in his Chicago congregation — Sarah Anne Cooke...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on John 7:37-39.
In the autumn of 1871, Dwight L. Moody was already filling auditoriums across America. Yet two women in his Chicago congregation — Sarah Anne Cooke and Mrs. Hawxhurst — unsettled him after every service with the same quiet words: "We are praying for you to receive the filling of the Holy Spirit." Moody bristled at first. He was successful. Crowds came.…
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