GREAT MEN'S BODIES
lants was taught me from my boyhood, and open-air exercise in the discharge of my duties has no doubt contributed to bodily vigor."
DWIGHT L. MOODY
The Christian Advocate attempts an analysis of "Moody and his Power" thus: "The Evening Post says it is rather remarkable that Mr. Moody's influence has told more powerfully among college students than any other class of men. This statement is indubitable. Oxford and Cambridge students heard him with delight; and many of them are said to have entered upon the Christian life under his appeals.
"But though remarkable, it is explicable. Practical sense, unaffected and direct style, self-confidence induced by success, immense physical vigor, predominance of Anglo-Saxon in his speech, shrewd, management of crowds, keeping on the best terms with the press, plentiful use of illustrative facts personally attested, and the element of surprise to college students growing out of the contrast with the didactic discourses to which they are accustomed; and the fact that those who delivered said discourses seem to sit at the feet of this untutored man, are among the natural elements of his power.
"Besides, he has accumulated a vast amount of knowledge, and obviously has a well-defined theory of human nature and how to mould it. To this must be added great earnestness and his constant declaration that the sole source of his reliance is the Holy Spirit.427