During ldquo Chicago Day rdquo in October the city rsquo s theatres shut down because the owners figured everyone would be attending the World rsquo s Fair Some four hundred thousand people went but Dwight Moody ndash wanted to fill a music hall at the other end of Chicago with preaching and teaching His friend R A Torrey ndash was skeptical that Moody could draw a crowd on the same day as the fair But by God rsquo s grace he did As Torrey later concluded the crowds came because Moody knew ldquo the one Book that this old world
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