The life story of Dwight Lyman Moody, commoner of Northfield and a man mightily used of God, as the introduction says. The author, Richard Ellsworth Day, led churches in California and Arizona and went on to be a general evangelist and widely-read author of the column, Beside the Golden Gate, in The Baptist. He is also the author of The Shadow of Broad Brim, a biography of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, acclaimed as one of the greatest preachers of all time.