The Shoe Clerk Who Needed a Nudge

On a spring afternoon in 1855, eighteen-year-old Dwight Moody stood behind the counter of Holton's shoe store on Court Street in Boston, wrapping boots in brown paper. He had been attending Mount Vernon Congregational Church for months — sitting in the pew, hearing sermons, even renting his own seat — but something restless churned inside him that he could not name.…