Collection 330 Records of The Moody Church
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, church bulletins, minutes of meetings, and other records documenting the activities of the influential independent Chicago church started by Dwight L. Moody; chiefly from ca. 1910 through 1946.
Topics documented include worship services, Sunday school, the weekly activities of the congregation, the governance of the body, and various urban evangelistic outreaches of the church. Besides the history of the church, the collection also documents such topics as American foreign and home missions at the beginning of the twentieth century, the life and ministry of Moody's pastors A.C. Dixon, Paul Rader, P.W. Philpott, and Harry Ironside, various Evangelical and Fundamentalist figuresand institutions, the beliefs and practices of American Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism, and the impact of current events such as World Wars I and II on church life.
Biographical Note: Independent conservative Protestant church; founded by Dwight L. Moody in Chicago, 1864; one of the leading churches of Chicago and of Fundamentalism-Evangelicalism in the U.S.; originally called the Illinois Street Church, 1864-1871; after the building burned in the Chicago Fire, the congregation built a new structure at Chicago Avenue, which gave the church its name until it was renamed the Moody Church in 1900.
Dates
- Created: 1864-1987
Extent
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Language of Materials
English
Other Descriptive Information
Related URL: https://www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/guides/330.htm
- Africa Inland Mission.
- African Americans -- Religious life.
- African Americans.
- Bingham, Rowland V., 1872-1942.
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert)
- Blanchard, J. L. (Julia L.)
- Borden, William, 1887-1913.
- Central American Mission.
- Chafer, Lewis Sperry, 1871-1952.
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Religion.
- Children -- United States
- Children -- United States -- Religious life.
- Children.
- China Inland Mission.
- Christian education -- United States.
- Christian education, Outdoor -- United States.
- Christian education, Outdoor.
- Christian education.
- Christian vacation schools.
- Church and social problems -- United States.
- Church and social problems.
- Church architecture -- United States.
- Church architecture.
- Church buildings
- Church buildings -- Chicago.
- Church discipline.
- Church fund raising.
- Church work with children -- Chicago.
- Church work with children.
- Church work with youth -- Chicago.
- Church work with youth.
- Cities and towns -- United States.
- City missions -- Chicago.
- City missions.
- Clark, Gordon H. (Gordon Haddon), 1902-1985.
- Conversion.
- Dallas Theological Seminary.
- Dixon, A. C. (Amzi Clarence), 1854-1925.
- Dixon, A. C. -- Sermons.
- Evangelicalism -- United States.
- Evangelicalism.
- Evangelistic invitations.
- Evangelistic sermons.
- Evangelistic work -- Chicago.
- Evangelistic work -- China.
- Evangelistic work -- Ireland.
- Evangelistic work -- Japan.
- Evangelistic work -- South Africa.
- Evangelistic work -- United States.
- Evangelistic work.
- Fundamentalism.
- Gospel musicians -- United States.
- Gospel musicians.
- Home missions
- Home missions -- Illinois.
- Home missions -- United States.
- Independent churches -- Chicago.
- Independent churches.
- Ironside, H. A. (Henry Allan), 1876-1951.
- Jones, Bob, 1883-1968.
- Jones, Bob, 1911-1997.
- LaSalle Street Church (Chicago, Ill.)
- Missionaries -- United States.
- Missionaries.
- Missions -- Educational work.
- Missions -- Mexico.
- Missions -- Africa.
- Missions -- Asia.
- Missions -- Australia.
- Missions -- China.
- Missions -- Colombia.
- Missions -- Europe.
- Missions -- Finance.
- Missions -- Japan.
- Missions -- Latin America.
- Missions -- Middle East.
- Missions -- Nigeria.
- Missions -- Russia.
- Missions -- Study and teaching.
- Missions -- United States.
- Missions to Jews.
- Missions to Muslims.
- Missions, Medical.
- Missions.
- Moody Bible Institute.
- Moody Memorial Church (Chicago, Ill.)
- Moody, Dwight Lyman,
- National Association of Evangelicals.
- Pentecostalism -- United States.
- Pentecostalism.
- Philpott, P. W.
- Philpott, P. W. -- Sermons.
- Prayer groups -- United States.
- Prayer groups.
- Rader, Paul, 1879-1938.
- Redpath, Alan.
- Religious institutions.
- Sermons, American.
- Smith, Gipsy, 1860-1947.
- Songs in the Night (Radio program)
- Southern Bible Training School (Dallas, Tex.)
- Stewardship, Christian.
- Storytelling -- United States.
- Storytelling.
- Sudan Interior Mission.
- Sunday schools -- Chicago.
- Sunday schools.
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935.
- Sweeting, George,
- Theological seminaries -- United States.
- Theological seminaries.
- Thiessen, Henry Clarence, 1885-
- Townsend, William Cameron, 1896-1982.
- Voluntarism -- Religious aspects -- United States.
- Voluntarism -- Religious aspects.
- Voluntarism.
- Wheaton College (Ill.)
- Women
- Women -- Religious life.
- Women in church work -- United States.
- Women in church work.
- Women missionaries.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Worship.
- Youth
- Youth -- United States
- Youth -- United States -- Religious life.
- Youth -- United States -- Societies and clubs.
- Youth in missionary work.
- Title
- Collection 330 Records of The Moody Church
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Roman Script
Repository Details
Part of the Evangelism & Missions Archives Repository