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Moody's Impact on the Student Volunteer Movement
 

6.0    D.L. Moody's Revival Campaigns nationwide, British Campaigns, and impact

       on YMCA Movement and the SVM.


 

       6.1   His evangelization began in Chicago through his YMCA evangelization.

       6.2   Campaigns throughout British Commonwealth (1872-75, 81-84, 92-93) with

              influence on the formation of Cambridge Seven (1882). The Seven became

              mission forces of Hudson Taylor's China Inland Mission (D.E. Hoste, one of

              the Seven, became Taylor¡¯s successor of CIM.

        6.3   C T Studd, one of Cambridge Seven & founder WEC International, his older

              brother JEK Studd, president of Moody Mission of Cambridge University, 

              influenced American colleges for Foreign Missions - John Mott at Cornell.  


 

        6.4   His influence through British Commonwealth (England, Wales, Scotland,

              Ireland, Canada, Australia) and all over the world through his evangelism and

              his sponsoring of the SVM - and its key vehicle the YMCA.


 

         6.5   Twenty four among the Mount Hermon 100 (1886) were Mt Hermon

               students.

         6.6   More than 200 missionaries from Northfield Mt Hermon and more than

               7,500 missionaries were trained at the Moody Bible Institute.

 

7.0    Moody returned to Northfield to build the Northfield and Mt Hermon schools

       (1879,1881) and began the Northfield Conference in 1880.

      This was a huge influence on the beginning of the Student Volunteer

      Movement for Foreign Missions (1886) at Mt. Hermon School.

      The Conference lasted until the 1950s and was used as World Mission

      ground zero. 

      Urbana of InterVarsity was the successor of the quadrennial international 

      convention of the SVM. God used him at the highest recognition in his

      world evangelization for the birth of the Cambridge Seven and the 
Movement for world missions.


       7.1   Moody¡¯s suggestion of ¡°An Appeal to Disciples Everywhere¡± in Northfield

             Conference (1885) brought ¡®World evangelization in our generation¡¯ and birth

             of Mt Hermon Conference (1886).

       7.2   Moody¡¯s arm for evangelism, the YMCA, brought Luther Wishard (Princeton

             Univ.), inspired by the Haystack Prayer & a letter from Hokkaido University

             founded by William S Clark (UMass Amherst), and Charles Ober (Williams

             Collegeof the Intercollegiate YMCA. Moody suggested inviting college YMCA

             representatives to Mt. Hermon – which was the beginning of the movement.

             The YMCA became the key vehicle of the SVM for World Missions.

       7.3   Robert Wilder: a son of a descendant of the Haystack Movement and

             member of ¡®the Brethren¡¯ at Andover Seminary, was born in his father¡¯s

             (Royal Wilder) mission field in India.

             His Ten Nations Prayer Meeting at Mt Hermon during the conference

             became the Mt Hermon One Hundred as his sister, Grace Wilder of Mt.

             Holyoke College prophesized. The Wilders began the Princeton Mission

             Review and Princeton Foreign Mission Society.

       7.4   John Mott, one of the Hundred, was Chair of SVM, and President of the

             World YMCA. He was also winner of the Nobel Prize influenced by JEK

             Studd

       7.5   AT Pierson, a keynote speaker at the Northfield Conference at Mt Hermon

             (1886) was asked by Wider to speak about World Missions in the conference

       7.6   Moody¡¯s evangelism campaigns and worship style with Ira Sankey became

             a model of the Billy Graham crusades in the next century.  His fundraising

             style included using business insight and was prayer based. It was well

             adopted in our generation.

8.0         The huge success of SVM for World Mission inspired 100,000 student

         volunteers; 20,400 became full-time long-term missionaries overseas and

         80,000 were prayer and financial supporters by the 1940s.

       8.1   Traveling Secretary of the SVM Robert Wilder, and John Forman another of

             Wilder¡¯s best friends in the Mission Society at Princeton Univ., recruited

             2,106 volunteers in their first trip to 162 campuses in USA and Canada

             in1886-1887

             8.1.1   Robert Speer: One of the great mission statesmen in SVM, Princeton

                      University graduate became the Vice President of Northfield Schools,

                      the birth place of the SVM; and his son, Elliot Speer, became

                      President of Northfield schools¡¯ trustee and headmaster of Mt Hermon.
 

              8.1.2    Samuel Zwemer: Frontier missionary to the Islamic World.

              8.1.3     Great Toronto Four from Toronto, Canada to Korea: R.A Hardie,

                       James G Gale, Malcolm Fenwick, and Oliver R Avison.

                      (Toronto was a final place of the SVM's quadrennial Int'l Convention

                       at the same time birth of Urbana's new Studnet Convetion in 1946

                       by Christy Wilson Jr. a son of SVM missionary to Iran) 

              8.1.4     James & Rosetta Hall/ Sherwood & Marian Hall  two generation of

                        husband-wife medical missionaries to Korea.

              8.1.5     Samuel A Moffett (father of Samuel H. Moffett, Emeritus Prof. of

                       Princeton Seminary), a prophet and founder of the world¡¯s biggest

                       mission compound at Pyong Yang, Korea.

              8.1.6  Those early SVM missionaries were key figures during the Korean

                      Pentecost (1907) in Pyong Yang and for great medical missions and

                      foundation of Korean education.

              8.1.7  Daniel McWilliams, president of the Brooklyn YMCA and an elder

                      of church that sent HG Underwood,

                      1) sponsored Robert Wilder & John Forman¡¯s expenses for traveling in

                      1886-1887, and founding of John Mott's World Students Christian

                       Federation(WSCF) in 1895, having first WSCF Conference in Northfield

                      in 1897.  

                      2) gave Moody $66,000 to build a biggest dorm at Northfield (1884),  

                      3) Opened Korea Mission by contributing $5,000 at PCUSA Mission

                          Board (1884)

               8.1.8  During 1906–1923, more than 400 SVM-recruited missionaries sailed

                       off to Korea. were Northfield Mt Hermon graduates, and 300 SVM

                       missionaries graduated from Moody Bible Institute. 

           8.2     SVM-recruited missionaries changed the Christian map of the world

                  (India, China, Africa, South America and many other countries in Asia)


 

           8.3     SVM became the greatest contributor to the sudden burst of American

                  interest in foreign missions and the United States became the largest

                  country in World Missions.


 

           8.4     God used D.L. Moody, Northfield, the Student Volunteers as channel of

                  blessing to bless all people of all nations.