Moody and Sankey
Moody and Sankey was an American evangelical duo at the end of the 19th century , consisting of the singer Ira David Sankey and the preacher Dwight Lyman Moody .
history
Sankey and Moody met in 1871. During a YMCA conference in Indianapolis , a Presbyterian pastor asked Sankey present to lead the public chanting. The talented singer started the song There is a Fountain Filled With Blood , and he managed to get the young people excited to sing. At the end of the service, Moody approached Sankey. When asked, Sankey told him that he was married and a government employee and had two children. The evangelist urged him to give up his job and help him with his events. The next day, Sankey received a card asking him to meet Moody at six o'clock on a specific street corner. Sankey decided to answer the call. At Moody's request, Sankey stood on a box to sing. Workers walking home from the factories stopped to listen. After Sankey had sung his song, Moody addressed a few words to the audience, who then marched to the opera, accompanied by Sankey's singing, where Moody was delivering his evangelism.
Moody had started his service as a Sunday school teacher in Chicago . The Great Chicago Fire in October 1871 presented a challenge to Moody. When many of his church members were killed in the fire, he resolved never to end his lectures without the opportunity to “give life to God”. Sankey's touching voice prepared emotionally for the sermons.
The two traveled across the United States together . They wrote and published revival songs and called for "giving life to God." The duo first came to Great Britain in 1875 . Queen Victoria noted in her diary: “There was a lot of fuss here because of the revivalists Moody & Sankey. Lots of people are crazy about them. ”The collaboration lasted until shortly before Moody's death in 1899.
The format of the events with Sankey as the singer and worship leader at the American Organ and Moody as the preacher became the role model and model for many evangelists of the 20th century. It influenced, for example, the Welsh Gwahoddiad songs, the trombone choirs and also Reuben Archer Torrey and Billy Graham .
literature
- Elias Nason: The American Evangelists, Dwight L. Moody, and Ira D. Sankey. With An Account Of Their Work In England And America. Kessinger Publishing, 2007.
- Novella P. Jordan: Makers of Music, Baptist Sunday School 1982.
- Karl Heinz Voigt: Sankey, Ira David. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 1330-1336.
- Karl-Hermann Kauffmann: Ira D. Sankey, the singer DLMoody's and the sanctification movement. Short biography 2009. Self-published by the Free Brethren Community Albstadt, 2009, Brosamen-Verlag Albstadt 2012 ISBN 978-3-00-037593-4 .
Web links
- Moody and Sankey: The Life and Work of DL Moody
- Appreciation on one side of a Mennonite congregation
Individual evidence
- ^ Queen Victoria's Journals. Retrieved October 23, 2017 .