for more information. to read an article about this collection from the Archives May 1999 newsletter. to see two of the tracts from Box 64, Folder 7.
Click to see the presentation ""Make This the Best Year of Our Lives": Scenes of Christian Ministry from the Year 1898.", which includes material from this collection. to go to a list of the people for whom there are membership cards in the records of Moody Church.Collection 330
[March 12, 2013]
The Moody Church; 1864-
Records; 1864-2007, n.d.
73 boxes (66 DC, 1 ODC, 6 FSB; 34.02 cu ft), Lantern Slides, Negatives, Oversize Materials, Photograph Albums, Photographs, Slides, Video
Restrictions:
Because of their fragile condition, the materials in folder 58-3 and 68-2 may not be
photocopied.
The contents of folders 66-1, 66-3, 66-4, 67-1, 67-2, 68-1, and former folders
69-1, 69-2, 69-3
,
70-1, 70-2, and 70-3, now Photo Albums IX through XIII, have been microfilmed
and researchers must use the microfilm instead of the fragile originals.
Scope and Content Description
[NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the
notation "folder 8-5" means box 8, folder 5.]
The Moody Memorial Church documents in the Archives include records going back
almost to the beginning of the congregation and coming up to the present. Types
of records include correspondence, reports, diaries, legal papers, church publications,
minute books, financial ledgers and journals, church letters (statements that
an individual is a member in good standing of a particular church), sermon notes,
church bulletins, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, lantern slides, photographs,
and slides. The records include material from all periods of the Moody Church's
history except the very beginning, but most of the documents are from the period
1916-1946, an era from just after the beginning of Rader's pastorate to just
before the end of Ironside's. Files describe the church's administration,
membership policies, Sunday school, conferences, ushers, music, programs, theological
beliefs, and place in Chicago life. They also illustrate other themes,
such as the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy, disputes between Fundamentalists
and Pentecostals, urban evangelism in late nineteenth and early twentieth century
America, and the activities of American Protestant missionaries in Africa, Asia,
South America, and Europe, as well as in home missions in the United States.
The first thirty boxes contain correspondence and other materials of the church's
pastors (almost all of which is from either P. W. Philpott or H. A. Ironside).
The rest of the material in the collection is arranged alphabetically by folder
title, the titles usually supplied by the Archivist.
NOTE: IN THE DESCRIPTION THAT FOLLOWS, THE ARCHIVIST HAS OFTEN LISTED
SOME OF THE CORRESPONDENTS OR ORGANIZATIONS FOR WHICH THERE IS INFORMATION IN
THE ARCHIVES. HOWEVER, WITH A COLLECTION AS EXTENSIVE AS THE MOODY RECORDS,
THOSE MENTIONED IN THIS GUIDE ARE ONLY INTENDED AS SAMPLES OF THE TYPES OF MATERIAL
AVAILABLE. NOR ARE THE FOLDERS LISTED AFTER A PARTICULAR TOPIC NECESSARILY THE
ONLY ONES WITH INFORMATION ON THAT TOPIC. THE ARCHIVIST LISTED THE FOLDERS HE
WAS AWARE OF, BUT THERE COULD EASILY BE MANY OTHERS. THE RESEARCHER USING THESE
MATERIALS WILL NEED TO MAKE A THOROUGH SEARCH HIMSELF/HERSELF.
*****
Dwight L. Moody Materials. Moody was never
pastor of the church he founded, although he was its guiding spirit during his
lifetime. There is little in the collection with direct information about him.
Folder 51-4 contains the membership register of the church which lists him as
the first member. This register was apparently made up some time after the church
was founded, perhaps in the 1880s. Folder 58-3 contains a scrapbook of newspaper
clippings about meetings held by Moody and John McNeill in Scotland and Ireland
in 1892 and meetings held by McNeill in South Africa in 1894. Folder 51-3 contains
items from the church's 1937 celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Moody's
birth. Folder 42-3 contains a list of Moody's Chicago street addresses from
1857-1880, copied from city directories. The same folder contains a typescript,
possibly of an article for or from the church newsletter, of reminiscences about
Moody by his friend E. W. Blatchford. Finally, the Northside Tabernacle Account
Book from 1871-1874 in folder 68-3 features donations from Moody.
*****
Pastors' Files. Most of the materials relating
directly to the church's various pastors are in boxes 1 through 30, although
other material can be found throughout the collection. Box 1 contains a few
items apiece from or about the church's early twentieth century pastors. There
is a tract from R. A. Torrey Sr. in folder 1-1. W. J. Jacoby was an assistant
to Torrey and folders 31-11, 47-4 and 47-5 contain a couple of his letters.
Letters that A. C. Dixon sent to new converts, a summary of his plan for making
sure each visitor was greeted every Sunday, a floor plan of the Moody Church
during his time and his letter of resignation are in folder 1-2. Folder 57-4
holds small promotional cards which were apparently passed out to passersby
to announce sermons or special meetings led by Dixon as in later years cards
would be passed out announcing meetings by Paul Rader, P. W. Philpott, H. A.
Ironside, Rodney "Gypsy" Smith, E. Y. Woolley, and W. J. Jacoby. Dwight L. Moody
had started this practice, although the collection contains no cards from him.
The cards often have a pithy saying or colorful picture to attract attention.
The scrapbook in former folder 69-1, now Photo Album IX, contains (in addition
to programs and other items published by the church during his pastorate) a
long series of sermons by Dixon which appeared in a Chicago newspaper.
John Harper never actually served as pastor of the church, although he did preach
there on occasion. He was called by the church in 1912, but died while crossing
the Atlantic on the Titanic. Folder 31-9 contains letters he wrote
the church, some materials about his call and letters sent to his former congregation
(Walworth Road Baptist Church) commiserating with them over their loss. The
same folder contains a resolution mourning the death of long time elder John
M. Hitchcock in 1912. See also folder 1-4.
Folder 1-3 contains correspondence to and from Woolley (or pastoral assistant
and membership secretary P. C. James) on such routine matters as birthday greetings,
a form from an adoption agency about the character of a church member, correspondence
with James Gray about preaching at the Tabernacle, floor plan of the Moody Tabernacle,
etc. Most of this material comes from the period when Woolley was serving as
Rader's associate pastor. Also in the file is a 1919 letter asking that his
church membership be transferred to the church he had moved to in Massachusetts.
Folder 31-9 contains a memo Woolley wrote in 1911 on the actions the church
should take while it was without a pastor and one from 1912 on the importance
of prayer in the life of the church.
There is material about Paul Rader in several folders throughout the collection.
The scrapbooks in former folders 69-2 and 69-3 ,
now Photo Albums X and XI, contain numerous promotional cards, posters and other
announcements of meetings that Rader held at Moody and elsewhere. His desire
to involve all Moody's members in the life of the church are outlined in a letter
in folder 31-11, a large number of the committee reports and correspondence
in boxes 31 through 38 are from the time of his pastorate and the Cedar Lake
records in folders 30-3 through 30-7 reflect his interest in the property. Folder
1-4 contains such items that reflect the church's initial enthusiasm for Rader
(such as resolutions of support and appreciation by the executive committee)
and later estrangement ( such as the letter the executive committee sent to
the membership of the church explaining the reasons for Rader's resignation
1921) and finally a 1925 letter from the board suggesting that Rader and the
church submit their differences to an impartial arbitrator. Other items in the
file include an offer from Rader to buy Cedar Lake from the church. Rader 's
departure arose in part from the tension caused by the difference between Rader's
free wheeling, entrepreneurial style and the church's more conservative tradition.
The animosity between Rader and the next pastor, P. W. Philpott is reflected
in letters such as that in file 1-6 between Philpott and Roland V. Bingham.
A few letters in the membership files, such as 45-1 are from church members
who left Moody to go to Rader's new church, the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle. Folder
2-10 contains information about his evangelistic work in Chicago after he left
Moody.
The rest of the files in box 1 and all of box 2 consists of correspondence of
P. W. Philpott, most of it from the very end of his pastorate. Topics covered
in these files include scheduling evangelistic meetings for himself or for others
at Moody; Philpott's opinions on theological trends of the time; response to
his sermons or to various church policies; evidence of hostility between Rader
and Philpott; background information on Moody congregation members who were
applying to various mission and evangelistic organizations, correspondence with
other members of the World Christian Fundamentalist Association (such as Gustaf
Johnson), and arranging for musicians to appear at Moody. Among his correspondents
(whose letters unless otherwise noted can be found in the file labeled with
the first letter of their last names) are: evangelists Ellery and Ellen Aldridge,
Donald Grey Barnhouse, William Biederwolf, Roland V. Bingham (about the work
of the Sudan Interior Mission), Charles Blanchard (see also folders 32-1 and
33-4), J. Mary Borden (mother of William Borden), J. Oliver Buswell Jr. (asking
for money for Wheaton College and describing the College's new public relations
policy), Lewis Chafer (folder 1-10, mostly about Central American Mission but
also some information about Chafer's Evangelical Theological School, which later
became Dallas Seminary), Ralph Davis, J. A. Davis, George Engstrom, A. F. Gaylord,
James Gray (reporting on activities at Moody Bible Institute), Homer Hammontree,
Will Houghton, H. A. Ironside, Gustaf Johnson, J. E. Jaderquist, Charles Rolls
of the Bible Institute of New Zealand, William Bell Riley (about the World Christian
Fundamentals Association), Mel Trotter, and Henry Clarence Thiessen.
Many of the files in boxes 1 and 2, such as 1-9 and 2-5, contain correspondence
and memos on the routine, day-to-day functioning of the church staff. Folder
1-7 contains annual reports for the year 1927-1928 from the various departments
and committees of the church. Some of the topics covered in Philpott's correspondence,
besides those already mentioned, include:
folder 1-5 - a chart dividing history into seven dispensations
folder 1-6 - anonymous letters sent to Philpott or the executive committee of
the church, usually complaining about some aspect of the church or containing
prophecies or warnings
folder 1-8 - criticisms of the work of the Christian and Missionary Alliance;
an endorsement of Mr. Divine, who was acting as fund raiser for Moody's building
campaign
folder 1-9 - the Chicago Hebrew Mission, the Ceylon and India General Mission,
and the costs of broadcasting a Gypsy Smith meeting over WMBI radio station,
a statement by Philpott on divine healing
folder 1-11 - the work of the Central American Mission, which Philpott served
as a board member
folder 1-12 - notification to the county clerk about marriages performed by
Philpott
folder 1-16 - suggestions on ways to increase the church's involvement in Jewish
evangelism
folder 1-18 - information on E. H. Ironside's plan for a Bible school of African
Americans of the Southern states (eventually founded in Texas under the name
Southern Bible Training School; see folders 4-4, 4-7, 11-1, 9-4, 15-1, 19-3)
folder 2-6 - plans for an Philpott city-wide union meeting to be held in Milwaukee
in 1928
folder 2-7 - an old issue of the journal of the North Africa Mission; constitution
and other information about the League of Evangelical Students
folder 2-9 - brochure by Philpott attacking Pentecostal doctrine and Aimee Semple
McPherson
folder 2-10 - handbills for missionary conferences, the Cedar Lake Association,
the Westminster Press, and Paul Bosworth's evangelistic campaign in Chicago
folder 2-12 - information on the work of the Russian Evangelization Society
and on John Steinbrecher's plan for a special tabernacle for African Americans;
Wheaton College fund raising letter, Illinois Christian Fundamentals Association
folder 2-14 - plans, reports, testimonials and other documents from the evangelistic
meetings Philpott held in Tacoma with song leader Arthur McKee
Folders 58-6 through 62-1 contain stenographic notebooks from 1925-1928. They
appear to be in the Gregg system of shorthand and can be read by someone familiar
with that system. Most of these appear to be shorthand transcripts of Philpott's
sermons, although there are some books of office dictation and minutes of church
meetings. Others contain sermons by other preachers who spoke from Moody's pulpit,
such as William Biederwolf (folders 58-7, 60-1), Charles
Blanchard (folders 58-7, 59-2), John E. Brown (folder
60-2), H. D. Campbell (folder 58-6), Robert Glover (folder
59-4), Jonathan Goforth (folder 58-6), James Gray (folders 58-7, 59-4, 62-1)),
Charles Hurlburt (folder 58-6), H. A. Ironside (folder 59-4), John E. Jaderquist
(folder 58-7), G. Campbell Morgan (folder 61-1), Gypsy Smith (folder 61-3),
John Roach Stratton (folder 59-1), Billy Sunday (folder 59-2). Also of interest
are the stenographers notes for the memorial service for Emma Dryer (folder
58-6) and a sermon by Philpott in folder 62-1 on the Holy Spirit
and fanaticism, possibly an attack on Pentecostalism.
Folder 2-9 contains a copy of the Moody Church News with the article
about Philpott's resignation. Folder 2-17 contains some information about his
ministry after he left Moody and anniversary information from the Philpott Tabernacle
(later the Philpott Memorial Church) which he founded in Hamilton, Ontario in
1892. Folders 9-7 and
18-7 contains some of his correspondence with Ironside.
Charles Porter was an associate pastor under Philpott and Ironside. Folder 2-18
contains a report on his work from 1940.
A large portion of this collection (boxes 3 through 29) consists of H. A. Ironside's
correspondence and diaries. He was sometimes called "the bishop of Fundamentalism"
and his letters, which cover only a small portion of his time as pastor of Moody,
illustrate why. He was continually corresponding with other Fundamentalist leaders
and pastors about current events, Christian prophecy, and theological issues;
counseling Christians who wrote to him with personal problems, answering requests
for his books; exchanging letters with missionaries, soldiers, prisoners and
others. His agreement with the church when he became pastor in 1930 included
the understanding that he would be allowed to spend much of his time traveling
around the country to speak at other churches, schools and conferences. Indeed,
he was usually away from Chicago forty weeks of the year. but he was usually
back on Sunday to preach. Much of his correspondence concerns plans for speaking
engagements.
There is virtually no Ironside correspondence prior to 1940. Folders 3-1, 3-7,
4-5, 6-8, 13-3, and 22-8 contain what there is. Of especial interest are the
postcards he sent back to Chicago when he was traveling in Europe (folder 3-1).
Here is a select list of Ironside's correspondents. Please note, this list is
only a sampling. It does not include everyone who wrote to him or to whom he
wrote and for those people who are on the list, it does not necessarily include
every folder with a letter from them or to them: Jessie Blanchard of Africa
Inland Mission (folder 11-3, 16-3), Julia Blanchard (folders 11-3, 16-3), H.
D. Campbell of Moody Church and Africa Inland Mission (folder 12-4), Christian
Businessmen's Committee of Chicago (folder 11-1), Gordon Clark of Wheaton College
(folder 8-5), J. Hoffman Cohn of the American Mission to the Jews (folders 8-5
and 20-6), J. E. Conant (folder 3-8), L. S. Chafer or Dallas Seminary staff
(folders 3-6, 8-5, 11-1, 12-4, 20-7), Percy Crawford (folder 3-8, 20-4), Ralph
Davis of Africa Inland Mission (folders 4-1, 8-6), Peter Deyneka, Sr. (folders
4-1, 20-7), Alex Dodd (folder 24-3), V. Raymond Edman of Wheaton College where
Ironside was a trustee (folders 4-2, 13-1), Howard Ferrin (folder 24-5), Herman
Fischer of Wheaton College (folders 7-6, 7-7), Robert Glover of the China Inland
Mission (folders 4-4, 13-4, 17-1, 24-6), Clara Guilding of Africa Inland Mission
(folder 13-4), Ira Hartman (folder 25-1), Will Houghton of Moody Bible Institute
(folder 4-7), Leslie Huber (folder 9-4), John Huffman (folder 4-7), Karl Hummel
of Central America Mission (folder 4-7), Morris Inch (folder 21-4), Torrey Johnson
(folder 21-5), Bob Jones, Sr. (folders 9-7, 11-3, 13-6, 21-5), Reuben Larson
of HCJB (folder 9-9), Loizeaux Brothers - Ironside's publisher (folders 5-3,
10-1, 14-2, 17-6, 22-1, 25-1), William McCarrell (folder 20-4), Robert McQuilken
of Columbia Bible College (folders 5-7, 14-3), J. Palmer Muntz of the Winona
Lake Bible Conference, known also as the Winona Lake Christian Assembly, folders
5-5, 5-6, 13-6, 14-3, 21-5, 25-6, 26-1), Harold John Ockenga (folder 6-4), J.
Edwin Orr (folder 6-4), William L. Pettingill (folder 18-7), P. W. Philpott
(folder 18-7), Guy W. Playfair (folder 18-7, 33-4), Daniel Poling (folder 26-5),
James Rayburn (folders 6-7, 10-10), John R. Rice (folders 6-7, 10-10, 18-8,
26-6), Joy Ridderhof of Gospel Recordings (folder 10-10), William Bell Riley
(folder 18-8), Homer Rodeheaver (folder 18-8), Judson Rudd of William Jennings
Bryan University (folder 6-7), Ernest Sandeen (folder 27-1), Harry Saulnier
of the Pacific Garden Mission (folder 11-1), George Beverly Shea (folders 11-1,
18-9, 26-7), John Stratton Shufelt (folders 18-9, 27-1), Oswald Smith (folders
19-2, 22-5, 27-2), Rodney "Gypsy" Smith (folders 7-2, 27-2), Wilbur Smith (folders
19-2, 22-5), Peter Stam Jr. (folder 11-1), A. H. Stewart (folders 7-1, 11-1),
Paul Pinney Stough (19-11), Louis Talbot (folders 7-3, 11-2, 15-3), Clyde Taylor
(folder 15-3), Henry Clarence Thiessen (folders 7-3, 11-2, 15-3), W.
Cameron and Elvira Townsend about their translation work in Mexico (folders
7-3, 19-4), Dawson Trotman (11-2), Charles Troutman (folder 11-2), United Aborigine
Mission of Australia (folder 7-3), Abraham Vereide (11-3), John Walvoord (folders
7-6, 11-4), Evan Welsh (folder 7-6), J. W. Welsh of the College Church of Wheaton
(folder 11-4), T. R. Westervelt (folder 7-6), J. Elwin Wright (folders 7-7,
23-1), Jack Wyrtzen (folders 7-6, 15-5), Andrew Wyzenbeek (folder 27-5), Fred
Zafara of the Mel Trotter Mission (folder 19-8), P. J. Zondervan (folder 7-9)
Topics: Africa Inland Mission (folders 3-3, 8-2, 12-2, 16-1, 19-11, 23-6), American
Council of Christian Churches (folder 14-7), China Inland Mission (later the
Overseas Missionary Fellowship, folders 13-4), Jewish evangelism (folders 20-7,
23-7), the Christian Endeavor Society of China (folder 33-4), a letter to a
Mr. Soeyer about Christian Science and Mary Baker Eddy (folder 11-1), Dallas
Theological Seminary (folders 3-6, 4-1, 8-5, 11-1, 12-4, 20-7), the celebration
of the sesquicentennial of Charles G. Finney (folder 9-2), Moody Bible Institute
(information in many folders, but see especially folder 6-9), Multnomah School
of the Bible (folder 11-1), National Association of Evangelicals (14-7, 23-1),
Pentecostalism (folder 21-4), Moody Church radio broadcasts over station WMBI
(folder 6-8; folder 4-7 contains a letter about the church's plans to move from
WMBI to WCBD), Salvation Army (folder 11-1), Southern Bible Training School
- a school for African Americans (folder 4-4, 4-6, 4-7, 9-4, 11-1, 15-1, 19-3),
Warfield Bible Institute (folder 7-7), and the departure of Gordon Clark from
Wheaton College because of his so-called "hyper-Calvinism" (folders 8-5, 11-2).
Since most of Ironside's correspondence comes from the period when the United
States was a belligerent in World War II, some of the letters contain information
about the war fronts and home fronts. For example, folder 19-6 contains several
letters from African American serviceman Tom Wilson about his evangelistic activities
in the North African and European theaters. Folder 16-3 contains material from
the Chicago Board of Education about the effect of closing Manly High School
in order to turn the building over to the Navy. The same folder contains a letter
from the Keswick Convention of England mentioning how their meeting had been
disrupted by the German's 1944 rocket attack on London. Folder 20-4 contains
an interesting letter containing the testimony of Don Castel, a stretcher bearer
who had won the Silver Star. Folder 7-9 contains correspondence Ironside had
with missionary Esther Yaeger in the Philippines just before those islands were
invaded.
Ironside diaries are in folders 28-1 through 29-4. They cover most of his life
from 1913 until 1948, the year he left Moody. Most entries are very brief, usually
about two hundred words a day, although in some cases, like 1944, he wrote more
if the physical size of the journal allowed more. He wrote about sermons preached,
classes taught. occasionally a reference to events of the day, contacts with
other evangelists, etc. Folder 29-5 contains his life record as a minister,
that is a register of the marriages, baptisms, and funerals he performed. A
list just of marriages performed between 1931 and 1942 can be found in folder
10-4. Folder 27-8 contains one of his New Testaments, annotated with his comments.
There are a few folders with material from other pastors of Moody. Folders 29-7,
29-8 and 29-9 contain programs or other materials from the installations of,
respectively, George Sweeting, Warren Wiersbe, and Erwin Lutzer. Folder 29-6
has a biographical sketch of the life of Alan Redpath and printed summaries
of talks that he gave between 1953 and 1955. Sweeting's letter outlining his
plans if he became pastor of Moody are contained in folder 29-7, as are a couple
of sermon outlines and a letter from Wallace Ericksen outlining his strategy
if he were chosen pastor.
*****
Committees' Files. As might be expected in
a church with a strong historical tradition, the laity of the congregation played
a strong, often dominant part in its governance. This is reflected in the committee
files found in boxes 31 through 39. They contain reports and correspondence
from the various groups that supervised the main and varied aspects of the church's
life. For a full list of the folders with materials from committees, the researcher
must consult the container list found near the back of this guide.
The executive committee files (folders 31-11 through 31-13) are a rather haphazard
collection of materials, mostly from the 1910s and 1920s. The committee consisted
of the pastor, the assistant pastor, the elders, the head usher, the Sunday
school superintendent, the deacons, the clerk, the treasurer, the financial
secretary, and the trustees (the trustees were the people legally responsible
for the church). The committee served as the governing body of the church. Among
the items of interest are the following from folder 31-11: a 1892 memo from
Fleming Revell suggesting that the most appropriate way to celebrate D. L. Moody's
birthday would be to set up scholarships at the Bible Institute, a resolution
thanking James Gray for his acting as a supply pastor in 1897, a resolution
of mourning passed after the death of elder Eugene Kappeler in 1904, a 1917
letter (possibly from Paul Rader) on the need for a membership secretary, a
letter sent to A. F. Gaylord in 1918 when he withdrew from the church, statistics
on people who were put in contact with the church after they had come forward
during evangelist Billy Sunday's 1918 meeting in Chicago (the scrapbook in former
folder 70-1, now Photo Album XII, contains one or two forms from this campaign;
folder 62-2 contains a sample of sermon notes for one of Sunday's sermons),
a resolution of appreciation on the service given the church by elder Robert
Aitchison, attendance lists for committee meetings in the early 1920s, letter
about the gift from the Waterman estate to the church (see also folder 51-1),
resignations from the board for various reasons, forms signed by committee members
indicating their acceptance of the Moody constitution, letters relating to charges
of false beliefs or unbecoming conduct against church members, lists of committee
members for various years, and materials from the later 1950s and early 1960s
relating to changes in the church's constitution. Folder 31-9 contains executive
committee-type material although labeled "church committee." Folder 31-13 contains
two pamphlets relating to a dispute the executive committee had with former
elder W. R. Newall. Folder 47-4 contains letters about J. A. Forestor's resignation
from the executive committee in the 1920s. Folder 31-13 contains letters relating
to the ordination of Christian workers to various tasks. These appear to be
only a small fraction of the letters of ordination actually issued by the committee.
The nominating committee at one time had questions about belief and practice
which every candidate for office in the church had to answer. Folder 38-7 contains
samples of these questions. (see also the reports of the nominating committee
for the Sunday school in folder 64-1).
The file for the music committee (folder 38-6) contains several long reports
by Arthur McKee (whose resignation letter is in folder 48-3) about the all aspects
of the yearly musical activities at the church, both vocal and instrumental.
Of related interest is the correspondence from a slightly later period of music
director Richard Oliver in folder
52-3. Included in this file are letters from Roy McGhee about his work as a
musician with the YMCA in Paris after World War I. McGhee describes an occasion
when he saw Woodrow Wilson during the peace negotiations. Folder 49-3 contains
Oliver's letter explaining why he was leaving Moody to work with Rader at the
Chicago Gospel Tabernacle.
Folder 38-11 contains a miscellany of reports, including from the children's
home, the Yokefellow Band, minutes of 1897 annual business meeting, plans for
1908 re-union week, the Fire Committee (which oversaw fire safety), the Girls
Mission Study Circle, the Flowers Committee, the Vacation Camp Committee, the
Kitchen, the Baptismal Committee, and the Building Committee.
The Mission Committee or committees took various forms through the church's
history but generally it was responsible for helping to select the home and
foreign missionaries the church supported (missionaries had to be members of
the church) and helped to plan the missions rally held at the church each year
to inform the congregation and raise support for missions. Folders 32-1 through
38-3 contain the records of the committee, almost all of the documents from
the time periods of 1911-1917 or 1940-1944. For the years 1940 to 1944, there
were separate files for letters to mission boards (usually about gifts made
to the mission) and letters to individual missionaries. However, filing was
rather haphazard, so some letters to or from the same individual might be under
their name or under the name of the board they served under or, in a few cases,
the name of the country or region they were serving in. Following is a (non-inclusive)
list of the countries, organizations, and types of work the church supported:
Africa Inland Mission (letters from individual AIM workers can be found throughout
Ironside's correspondence as well as throughout the Mission Committee's; among
other files, see 3-3, 4-1, 8-2, 8-6, 12-2, 16-1, 19-11, 23-6, 32-1, 32-6, 33-6,
35-6), Alaska (folder 32-6), American Bible Society (folders 32-1, 33-6), American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (folders 32-2, 33-6), American-European
Fellowship (folder 33-6), American Mission to the Lepers (folder 33-6), Angola
(folders 34-2, 35-9), Arabia (folder 32-6), Belgian Congo (present day Zaire,
folders 34-2, 34-3, 35-6), Roland V. Bingham (folders 1-6, 33-4), Bolivia (folders
34-3, 35-8), Bolivia Indian Mission (folder 34-3), Brazil (folders 32-1, 32-5,
34-3, 34-6), evangelistic and humanitarian work in Bulgaria during the 1912-1913
war (folder 32-6), Central American Mission (folders 1-10, 1-11, 3-7, 4-7, 34-4),
Ceylon and India Mission (folder 32-3), Chicago Hebrew Mission (later known
as the American Messianic Fellowship, folders 1-9, 32-2), Chicago Tract Society
(folder 32-2; see also reports of the Moody Tract League in folder 52-2), children's
work (folders 32-1, 33-4, 35-8, 30-3, 39-4, 40-1), China (folders 4-3, 13-4,
17-1, 24-6, 32-2, 32-4, 32-6, 33-4, 34-4, 34-3, 35-6, 35-10), China Inland Mission
(includes letters from both Canadian and United States home boards, folders
4-4, 13-4, 17-1, 24-6, 32-1, 32-2, 32-4, 34-4, 34-5), Christian and Missionary
Alliance (folders 1-8, 34-4), Colombia (folders 32-1, 33-4), home mission work
among migrant cotton pickers (folder 35-8), Ivy Craig in Rhodesia (folder 34-5),
Evelyn Crane among the Lisu people of southern China (folder 34-5), Cuba (folders
34-4, 36-7), Cuba Evangelization Society (folder 34-4), Enock Dyrness of Wheaton
College (folder 20-7), Evangelical Union of South America (folder 37-1, 37-2),
famine relief (folder 33-4), Gideons, (folder 35-5), work with girls (folder
32-1), Guatemala (folder 34-3), W. Guilding's postcards from the German internment
camp after the ship he was traveling on (the Zamzam) was sunk by the
Germans during World War II (folder 35-6), Hebrew Christian Alliance (folder
35-7), Honduras (folder 35-8), Sarah Hosmon's work in Arabia (folder 32-6),
India (folders 1-9, 32-3, 33-3, 33-4, 34-6, 36-4), Japan (folders 33-2, 33-4;
folder 35-3 has reports on the church in Japan just before the 1941 attack on
Pearl Harbor), Japan Independent Mission (folder 33-2), Jewish evangelism (folders
1-16, 8-5, 20-7, 23-7, 35-7), W. R. Johnson's work among the Navaho people (folder
32-6), Clarence Jones (folders 35-9, 47-4), Ann Jordan of AIM (folder 32-6),
Kenya (folders 34-3, 35-6, 35-8), work with lepers (folders 33-3, 33-6), Mexico
(folders 7-3, 19-4, 33-4, 34-6, 35-2, 37-1, 37-2), Methodist Episcopal Mission
to Italy (32-6), Mission to Lepers in India and the East (later known as the
Leprosy Mission, folder 33-3), Moravians (folder 32-6), Morocco (folder 32-2),
Doris Needham's work in Mexico (folders 36-4, 36-5), home missions work among
New Orleans children (folder 35-8), Nigeria (folders 32-6, 33-4, 34-2, 34-3,
35-8, 36-7), Northeast India General Mission (folders 36-4, 36-9), Nyasaland
(folder 35-3), Peru (folder 36-7), Presbyterian missions in China (folder 33-4),
Diary of Rees-Jones journey from Chicago to South India via Japan, Manila, Hong
Kong, and Ceylon (folder 33-4), Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe, folders 34-5,
35-9), Rural Bible Crusade (folder 36-9), Russia (folders 2-12, 20-7, 32-2,
36-9), Russian Gospel Association (later the Slavic Gospel Association, folders
20-7, 36-9), San Pedro Mission (later known as the East Bolivian Mission, folder
33-4), Scandinavian Alliance Mission (later known as The Evangelical Alliance
Mission or TEAM, folders 34-5, 37-1, 37-2, 58-2), South Africa General Mission
(folders 26-7,
33-5, 37-1, 37-2), South America Evangelical Mission (folders 32-5, 33-5), Robert
Speer (folder 33-4), Sri Lanka (formerly known as Ceylon, folders 32-3, 33-4),
Andrew Stirrett's work in Nigeria (folder 33-4), the Stott family of Grace Evangelical
Mission in China (folder 33-4), Sudan Interior Mission (folders 18-7, 26-7,
33-4, 34-5, 37-1, 37-2), work among Russian war prisoners in Germany during
World War I (folder 32-2), Wheaton College (folders 1-8, 2-12, 4-2, 7-6, 7-7,
8-5, 11-2, 13-1, 20-7, 37-6), Wycliffe Bible Translators (also known as the
Summer Institute of Linguistics, folders 26-5, 36-4, 36-5, 37-6), and Zambesi
Mission (folder 37-7).
There are many items of interest in the Missions Committee files. For example
folders 33-1 and 38-3 contain lists of missionaries supported by the church.
Similar material can be found in folder 20-5. See also the ledger in folder
42-7 of funds raised to support missionaries. Folder 32-1 contains a brochure
on the plans of the Canadian Congregational Foreign Mission Society to found
a school to train Africans to be evangelists. Folder 33-4 contains the missionary's
committee explanation not to participate in the 1913 World in Chicago Exposition
because of its secularism.
The missionary rally held each year for home and foreign missions was a major
event in the life of the church. Representatives of different mission boards
would report on their activities, there would be sermons on the purpose of missions,
people would be encouraged to consider whether they had a call to be a missionary,
and offerings would be taken for various mission programs. Many files throughout
the collection have information relating to the rallies, especially 6-1, 10-5,
14-4, 18-3, 22-4, 38-1, 38-2, and 53-11. Other folders containing material relating
to the church's mission programs include 14-5, 16-5, 18-2, 26-1,38-14, 38-11
and 42-7.
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Church Organizations. As noted above, the
Sunday school was founded before the church and the collection contains a great
deal of information about its programs. Almost every folder contains something
related to the program. Folders 62-3 through 64-4 contain reports, statistics,
lists of officers, teachers, and students, minutes of the governing board, and
a copy of the constitution. Folder 53-12 through
54-4 contain programs from various events such as Rally Day or the annual Christmas
program. Folders 57-5, 57-6 and 57-7 contain various publications of the Sunday
school, such as attendance sheets, class lists, and the innumerable colorful
small cards that were distributed to invite children and adults to classes.
More such publications are in folders 57-6, 57-7, 65-5, and former folders 70-2
and 70-3, now Photo Albums XIII and XIV. Others can be found intermingled with
other church publications in scrapbooks in former folders 69-1 through 70-1,
now Photo Albums IX through XII.. (These folders have been microfilmed
and researchers must use the film.). Folder 70-4 holds various ephemera
from the Sunday School program ca. 1892-1937, including a certificate of membership,
several recruitment tools, copies of “Little Will and May’ or, ‘We’ll
Go Where Grandma Go’ed.’”; and various hymns. It also includes
application papers to teach Sunday School. Another folder with information about
the Sunday school (besides the church bulletins and minute books described elsewhere)
is 42-3.
The church's conference grounds were used extensively for events aimed at Sunday
school students and other children, although it was also the site of events
for adults. Folders 30-3 through 30-7 and 65-1 contain records about Cedar Lake,
the site of the camp for several years, The camp was sometimes referred to as
Cedar Lake and sometimes as Restawhile. Most of the materials in these refer
to the financial management of the camp or ownership of the camp, such as the
legal papers in folder 30-6 or the payroll in folder 30-7. Folder 30-3 does
have some information on its program, as does a brochure in folder 42-3. Other
information on Cedar lake can be found in the church scrapbooks in former folders
69-1, 69-2, and 70-1, now Photo Albums IX, X and XII, as well as in folders
1-4 and 2-10. There is a little material in folder 64-11 on the camp the church
purchased later at Lake Loon in northern Illinois. See also the photo album
labeled "Moody VI" for additional information on the church's camp program.
The church as an organization and its members as individuals were often involved
in evangelistic outreach in Chicago or the surrounding area, as documented in
the membership files and the minutes, among other places. The work among the
Italian immigrant population, first at 400 W. Chicago and eventually headquartered
in a church at the corner of Elm and LaSalle, is described in the statistical
reports in folder 38-5, among other places. The mission later became the independent
LaSalle Street Church. The Mission Church of Ravenswood (4803 N. Claremont)
was another congregation started by Moody and supported by the church until
at least the mid 1930s (folders 31-16, 44-16, 44-17, 50-4). The Moody Gospel
Mission (604 N. Clark) for the poor and derelict was another outreach of the
church. Besides the reports in folders 38-4 and 48-4, the ledgers in folder
65-2 contain descriptions of the daily expenses of the staff. There does not
appear to be any significant amount of material in the collection about the
Clyburn Gospel Mission, also started by the church. Reports on some of the open
air evangelistic preaching undertaken by church members are in folders 38-8
and 49-2. In the latter part of the twentieth century the church became the
base for reaching children through the telephone ministry called Dial-a-Story.
Children could call up to hear Bible stories or stories about the Christian
life. Information on this program is in folders 39-4 and 69-5. The newspaper
clippings in folder 52-4 also have information about some of the outreach programs
of the church. Folder 39-1 contains a report from 1897 about meetings held to
convert women.
The church also made use of radio to broadcast its services and other types
of evangelistic outreach. They began broadcasting the church services over WMBI
(the station of Moody Bible Institute) in 1934. Folder 6-8 contains correspondence
about the shift from WMBI to WCBD in 1939 (see also folders 1-9 and 4-7). In
1968, the radio program Songs in the Night, which had been broadcast
since 1943 by the Village Church of the Chicago suburb of Western Springs, moved
to Moody Church. Folder 53-5 contains a booklet from the program's thirtieth
anniversary with a brief history. Folder 57-8 contains two of the show's newsletters.
Within the church there were many programs, Bible studies, Sunday school classes,
and other groups that developed strong identities of their own. The collections
contains records of several of these. In a church the size of Moody, the ushers
were an important group. Besides helping to manage the services, the Moody Usher
Band organized evangelistic outreach of their own and held regular social events.
Some of these activities are documented in folder 64-10, which include reports,
lists of members, banquet programs, and a newsletter. Folders 31-2 through 31-5
contain reports, minutes, newsletters and other records of the Christian Companionship
Club, which was a group for young adults. The materials in the file document
their social events and evangelistic outreach. Other groups for which there
are files include the Christian Clarion Club (folder 54-7), Christian Endeavor
(31-6), the Friendly Bible Class (folder 39-7), the Friendship Club (folder
39-8), the Great Commission Prayer League (folder 42-2), the Moody Tract League
(folder 52-2), the Women's Home and Foreign Missions Society (folder 38-14),
and the Young Married People's Bible Class (folder 64-4).
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Membership Records. The membership records
of the church are another rich source of information about the congregation.
Besides yielding genealogical information, the materials in these files document
the development of the church over the years and offer many glimpses into the
everyday life and beliefs on the individual members. Folder 43-3 contains a
members address list. Folders 43-4 through 44-20 contain small cards which were
kept for each member, giving basic information such as when he or she joined
the church, address, etc. Folders 45-1 through 51-2 contain membership files.
These are arranged alphabetically by members name, although often there is no
order within a particular file. Among the types of documents that can be found
in a file are letters transferring membership from Moody to another church or
from another church to Moody, certificates of membership, documents relating
to an investigation or criticisms of a member's conduct, letters from members
explaining what the church means to them or giving them reasons for leaving
and much miscellaneous material. Several files contain reactions of members
to Rader's departure. Among the items of interest are a 1927 letter from a woman
who was resigning from Moody to join the Foursquare Lighthouse, partly in protest
against attacks on Aimee Semple McPherson (folder 45-1); letter from Norman
Camp about the need for an evangelistic ministry among the unchurched of the
Roger's Park area and letters from the prize fighter-turned evangelist J. C.
Cardiff (folder 46-1) , papers relating to J. A. Forest's resignation from the
executive committee (folder 46-4), A. F. Gaylord's complaint that the church
supported divine healing and was going into debt (folder 46-5), a 1917 letter
by Cecilia Larson describing how she had come to the church as a lonely young
woman in a big city and how much the congregation had meant to her (folder 48-1),
and the 1921 program from Clarence Jones' graduation from Moody Bible Institute
(47-4). Additional lists of members, officers and properties can be found in
the directories in folder 56-5.
The membership registers in folders 51-4, 51-5, and 52-1 include lists of the
first members, often giving the address and marital status of each and indicating
if the member had left, died, or was dismissed. The register in folder 53-3
contains the list of the very first members, starting with Dwight L. Moody,
but the record appears not to have been made in 1864 when the church started
but some time later. Folder 39-5 contains another list of members who had been
transferred to another church, died or been excommunicated. Folder 43-2 contains
a (seemingly incomplete) list of marriages performed at the church between 1920
and 1940 (see also folder 10-4). Folder 39-3 lists the deaths of members.
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Activities at the church. Another major source
of information for the life of the church are the church bulletins contained
in folders 54-8 through 56-1. (Folder 54-5 contains a single bulletin from the
Moody Tabernacle.) These contain bulletins from 1911 to 1983, although the series
is only reasonably complete for 1947 to 1966. In these publications are the
usual kind of information found in church bulletins: title and text of sermon,
Sunday school classes, deaths, marriages, upcoming events, etc. Sometimes there
are announcements of events going on in Chicago, such as the information about
Billy Graham's 1962 Chicago Crusade in bulletins in folder 55-6. Another, even
more valuable source of information is in the BGC LIBRARY (now Evangelism &
Missions Collection of the Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections):
the Church's newsletter, which was published under a variety of names. These
contain stories about people and events at the church for the years from 1888
through 1980. See the Periodicals Location Record in this guide for more information.
Reports and receipts for the publication of the newsletter in the 1930s are
in folders 57-1 and 57-2. Folder 57-9 contains an interesting analysis from
the mid-1960s on the strengths and weaknesses of the congregation.
Other folders concerning church events include 69-1, which contains promotional materials for the church, such as informational brochures and programs. Tickets of different colors and sizes for Moody events c. 1873-1910 are found in 70-6. Folder 69-2 covers various aspects of Moody centennial celebrations, with special focus on the church’s 100th anniversary in 1964. Documents included are correspondence between Bernard DeRemer, who was in charge of Moodyana at Moody Bible Institute, and various staff from Moody Church, such as Alan Redpath and Richard Maund, the Pastor and Business Manager at the time, respectively. A brochure of the Sunday School Centennial is also included.
Events at the church are also documented by the voluminous scrapbooks in formerly
in folders 69-1 through 70-3 and now in Photo Album File IX through XIV.
(These folders have been microfilmed and researchers must use the film.) These contain just hundreds upon hundreds of handbills, letters, brochures, programs,
cards, posters and other items (some of them very colorful) published by the church
to announce Sunday school classes, concerts, evangelistic campaigns, picnics,
and much more. One scrapbook is concerned almost totally with meetings led by
Paul Rader (formerly folder 69-3,
now Photo Album XI). Others contain only items about the Sunday school (folders
65-5, and former folders 70-2, 70-3, now photo albums XIII and XIV). Dwight L.
Moody used to hand out small cards announcing his meetings and the church continued
this tradition, as illustrated by the multitude of colorful cards in the scrapbooks
and folder 57-4, among other places.
There is another set of scrapbooks in the collection which should be mentioned. Four books, two
of them very large, document the life and influence of William W. Borden, a wealthy young man
who died just before he began his work as a foreign missionary. He had been a member of the
church and gave one hundred thousand dollars in his will (as well as bequests to other mission
organizations totaling one million dollars) for the support of home and foreign missions. The
memorabilia scrapbooks' origins are unclear, but perhaps they were put together by his mother
Mary and given to the church as a memorial. They describe his life and the continuing impact of
his efforts after his death and appear to be grouped roughly by topic. Scrapbook I (folder 71-1)
contains Borden's childhood notes, materials about the founding and outreach of the Yale Hope
Mission in New Haven, Connecticut (which worked among the indigent and poor of New
Haven), letters from friends remembering him (including Kenneth Scott Latourette), a photo of
the 1910 World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh, Bible study notes, and Princeton
memorabilia. The second scrapbook (folder 71-2) includes a consolation letter to Mary Borden
from Moody Church after her son's death, letters from friends around the world including James
M. Gray, material on the National Bible Institute in New York (Borden served on its board of
directors), articles and reports and other material about the Borden Memorial Hospital in Kansu
Province of China, materials about work among Muslims in China, photos of scenes in Mecca
and other Muslim sites, copy of one of Borden's memorial services led by Samuel Zwemer,
letters from Robert Speer and John R. Mott, a pamphlet containing Borden's will and probate
documents.
Borden took a trip around the world with Rev. Walter Eerdman in 1905, partly to visit
missionaries and find out more about their activities. Folder 71-3 contains a scrapbook of
postcards from that trip. They contain very brief messages and have printed scenes from Japan,
China, Ceylon, India, Palestine, and Lebanon. A photo album from the same trip is described in
the Photo Album Location Record (Moody Church - VIII). Additional information about Mary
and William Borden can be found in folders 1-8 and 30-2.
The scrapbooks about events at the church are supplemented somewhat by the programs and
publications in folders 53-5 through 57-8. These include bulletins, programs to special events
(folders 53-5, 53-6, 53-7, 53-8, 53-9, 53-12, 54-1, 54-3, 53-4), conferences (folder 53-11), letters
sent to raise funds for special projects (such as the 1924-25 construction of the new church
structure at the corner of North and Chicago Avenues, folders 56-6, 57-5), newsletters or other
materials for special groups within the church such as parents with babies (folder 56-4), or the
Christian Clarion Club (folder 54-7). Another interesting folder is 64-5, which contains poems
and other memorabilia created to commemorate someone, such as a popular Sunday school
teacher. For example, the folder has a pamphlet about Mrs. Thomas Smith (her own first name
not given), who died in 1943. She was a church elder who was involved in many ministries with
business and professional women over a forty year period and the booklet includes letters of
appreciation from many of these, including Amy Lee Stockton and Rita Gould. Several pieces written by the Poetess of the church, Avis Christiansen, are also located in this folder.
*****
Administrative records. These are contained in many folders. Perhaps most important are the
minute books of the executive committee in folders 66-1 through 68-1. (These minutes have
been microfilmed and researchers must use the film.) These go back to within a decade of the
founding of the church. Perhaps earlier records were destroyed in the Chicago Fire of 1871. For
the earliest minute books, from 1876 to 1878, the Archives does not have the minute books but
only photocopies made much later and of poor quality. Folder 66-2 contains the original
thermofax wet copies, which are badly fading. Folder 66-1 contains dry copies made by the
Archives staff on acid free bond. Because they were made from the fading thermalfax copies,
these copies are also not very readable. These files describe the large and small decisions made
by the board of trustees of the church over more than fifty years. The books include discussion
of the spiritual needs of the congregation, work of the Sunday school, disciplinary action taken
against church members, appointments, annual budgets, future plans, purchases of new property,
reports of the annual church meeting, fund raising, and much more on matters large and small.
The reports of the trustees are a helpful supplement to the minutes, although there are not many
of them. They give an annual picture of Moody Church's activities and finances (folder 64-9).
Very similar are the reports of the church clerk contained in folder 31-8 and the much later
annual reports in folder 58-1.
The various financial records of the church, of course, also show the congregations' activities and
priorities. Among the type of records included are the annual reports of the treasurer (there are
only a relative few of these, folder 64-8), annual financial reports from the 1950s (folder 39-6),
ledgers on the management of Cedar Lake campground (folders 30-4 through 30-7),
correspondence of the church's finance committee for a few years at the beginning of the century
(folder 31-15), receipts for gifts received during the 1920s, mostly for the building fund (folders
40-2 though 41-8), a variety of ledgers (folders 42-4 through 42-8) from the 1910s, 20s, and 30s,
such as a listing of church accounts (folder 42-5), pledges and the poor fund (folder 42-8), a
journal of purchases which gives an idea of daily expenses (folder 65-4), and a book of funds
raised for missionaries (folder 42-7).
Of particular interest is the Northside Tabernacle account book (68-3), likely the oldest item in the collection, which was started after the Chicago Fire. It contains the various incomes and expenditures of the Tabernacle beginning in Nov. 1871 through January 1874. It includes accounts for the General Fund, Tabernacle School Fund, Tabernacle Relief Fund, and the Relief Fund, and features entries concerning D. L. Moody as well as Ira Sankey.
The office correspondence in files 52-5 through 53-4,
although only an incomplete series, illustrates the daily concerns of the staff. (It also contains
interesting information about current evangelistic activities, such as the report on the religious
campaign among British and Allied soldiers in Europe in folder 53-4 or the report in folder 53-3
from John Matson, a guard at a POW camp in Canada.) Generally, the correspondence in these
files seems to be many things mixed together: receipts, information about pledges. reports, etc.
Other documents helpful in understanding the Moody Church are its constitution, by-laws and
manuals. These have undergone revisions over the years. Folders 56-2, 56-3 and 69-3 contain samples of these documents as they evolved over the years. This last folder also includes one copy of the manual for volunteers with the Sunday school.
The minute books in
folders 66-1 through 68-1 usually contain some information about changes that occurred.
Reports on proposed constitution changes in the 1960s are in folder 31-11. New members were
required to sign a statement affirming their acceptance of the constitution and rules of the church
and many examples of some forms can be found in the membership files.
Very early, Moody Church seems to have developed a strong sense of historical tradition, as
shown by the various pamphlets written on the history of the church and the efforts to preserve
and use its documents. Folders 56-7 and 69-6 contain many of the pamphlets on church history that have
been written. Often the latest version seems to be a somewhat modified version of the last. This
folder also has programs from the 1925 dedication of the Clark and LaSalle structure. In 1968 a
church history center was dedicated and folder 42-3 contains correspondence about people
donating materials to it, as well as some of the documents themselves. Among the items in this
folder are a booklet about the Cedar Lake conference grounds, a 1937 pamphlet on the history of
Moody Sunday school, a 1944 brochure about a youth campaign by Bob Jones Jr., notes for a
speech about John Harper, training notes meant for people who would be giving tours of the
church building, Moody Bible Institute bulletins from the time of Dr. Gray's retirement (May
1935) and his death (November 1935), and a pamphlet from the seventy-fifth anniversary of the
Sunday school. This folder also contains a diary from 1905 kept by someone only identified as
Elisabeth S. It does not appear to have any connection to Moody Church. Also of interest to a
student of the church's history are the plans in folder 38-11 for the celebration of the 1909
jubilee, the material in folder 51-3 about the celebration of the centennial of Dwight L. Moody's
birth, and, in folder 31-8, of a draft of a resolution from the Chicago Avenue Church to the
Moody Church. Programs for historical services may also be found in 69-6.
Folder 69-4 contains miscellaneous correspondence. Items of interest include a Christmas greeting card, a letter to Mrs. Fitt on Jubilee Year letterhead, a letter to the Moody Bible Institute Executive Committee from J. P. Clapham with some notes and figures attached, and an order of The Romance of a Doctor’s Visits, one of the books published by Moody Press, from Rev. Fred Champion. Folder 69-7 contains a collection of historical recounts relating to Moody Church members and events. Items included in this folder are several updated drafts of those who have sung or spoken in the church (ca. 1920); recounts from the 1908 reunion; and writeups concerning the church’s building and history.
Folders 70-1, 70-2 and 70-3 contain miscellaneous items relating to additional aspects of Moody Church history. Several of these items relate to the history of the buildings, including a sketch of the original building (which was burned in the Chicago fire) and the North Side Tabernacle (which was used for two years after the Chicago fire); programs for the final service held in the Chicago Avenue structure; and a photo commemorative from the 2007 dedication of the Christian Life Center. Other notable items include a booklet of “Campaign Rally Songs for the Dry Chicago Federation”; a pamphlet of hymns for “Meetings for Sober–Unemployed men every Morning” from 1908; an unrevised copy of the Church Constitution; random service programs; and a negative and photographic print copy of a brief 1887 history of the “Chicago Avenue Church” written by D. L. Moody.
Provenance
Except for a few photos, the materials in this collection were given to the Archives by Moody
Church in May 1986 and Moody Bible Institute Archives in 2012. A list of all the books that were given from this collection to the BGC LIBRARY (now Evangelism & Missions Collection of the Wheaton College Archives & Special Collections) is available upon request.
Accession # 84-20, 86-46, 86-50, 88-40, 92-100
December 6, 1994
Robert Shuster
K. Cox
S. Gertz
Stephen Ericksen, volunteer
Edna McEwen, volunteer
Revised, November 10, 1998
Robert Shuster
Revised, March 12, 2013
96-62, 98-71, 98-72, 99-41, 01-60, 12-21
Brittany Adams
Microfilm List
In June-July, 1998, through the generosity of Carlton and Miriam Ericksen, some of the
scrapbooks from Collection 330 were filmed by the Document Image Management Center of the
Department of Administration of the State of Wisconsin. These microfilm copies should be used
by the researcher instead of the originals. The microfilm is available for inter-library loan.
Reel 1 - Box 69, Folder 1: Scrapbook, 1907-1911
Reel 2 - Box 69, Folder 2: Scrapbook, 1911-1917
Reel 3 - Box 69, Folder 3: Rader Scrapbook, 1915-1919
Reel 4 - Box 70, Folder 1: Scrapbook, 1917-1930
Reel 5 - Box 70, Folder 2: Sunday School Scrapbook, 1907-1911
Reel 6 - Box 70, Folder 3: Sunday School Scrapbook, 1914-1921
Reel 7 - Box 66, Folder 1: Xeroxes of Minute Book of the Church's Executive Committee,
1872-1876 (Good Copies); Box 66, Folder 3: Xeroxes of Minute Book of the Church's Executive Committee,
1878-1890; Box 66, Folder 4: Xeroxes of Minute Book of the Church's Executive Committee,
1890-1899
Reel 8 - Box 67, Folder 1: Xeroxes of Minute Book of the Church's Executive Committee,
1900-1906; Box 67, Folder 2: Xeroxes of Minute Book of the Church's Executive Committee,
1906-1913; Box 68, Folder 1: Xeroxes of Minute Book of the Church's Executive Committee,
1919-1920
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LOCATION RECORD
Accession #: 86-46, 86-50
Type of material: Negatives
The following items are located in the NEGATIVE FILE; request by Folder Titles (in bold) at
the beginning of each entry below. All the negatives are black and white, unless otherwise noted.
DINWIDDIE, RICHARD D. Dinwiddie conducting choir and in his office. 1970-1978. 11
35mm strips
DIXON, AMZI CLARENCE. Portrait negative. N.d.
IRONSIDE, HARRY A. Portrait negative. N.d.
MOODY CHURCH--GROUP SHOTS. Founders day ceremonies. 1972. 8 35mm strips.
MOODY CHURCH--BUILDINGS--EXTERIORS. Aerial view of neighborhood around
Clark Street Church, Clark Street Church from the street. N.d. 1 color, 2 b/w negatives.
MOODY CHURCH--BUILDINGS--INTERIORS. Scenes of the interior of the Clark Street
Church, almost all of them nearly identical shots of the main auditorium. N.d. 15 color
negatives.
MOODY CHURCH--DAY CARE. Scenes of children, parents, and staff at the church's day
care center. 1972-1974. 15 35mm strips.
MOODY CHURCH--MISSIONS--FOREIGN. Scenes from the annual foreign missions
conference held at the church. 1973-1976. 51 35mm strips.
MOODY CHURCH--MISSIONS--HOME. Scenes from the annual home missions
conferences held at the church. 1977-1978. 20 35mm strips.
MOODY CHURCH--NEW ENGLAND DINNER. Scenes from the annual banquet. 1971-1973. 19 35mm strips, 5 60mm strips
MOODY CHURCH--SUNDAY SCHOOL. Moppet fashion show for little children, Festival
of Faith, Daily Vacation Bible School, informal shots of teachers and classes. 1974-1978. 13
35mm strips, 1 other negative.
MOODY CHURCH--YOUTH CAMP. Informal shots of arrival, crafts, sports, hiking,
sermons at the church camp. 1978. 9 35mm strips.
SCHAEFFER, FRANCIS IV. Schaeffer talking to an audience at the church in 1976.
6 35mm strips.
SONGS IN THE NIGHT (Radio program). Scenes from the annual banquet held at the
church, shots of the staff preparing broadcasts. 1969-1978. 98 35mm strips.
SWEETING, GEORGE. With his family, preaching, at his farewell party. 1971, n.d.
8 35mm strips, 2 other negatives.
WIERSBE, WARREN. Installation ceremony, preaching, scenes around church. 1971.
4 35mm strips.
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LOCATION RECORD
Accession #:86-46, 86-50
Type of material: Oversize Materials
The location of the following items is indicated in parentheses following the folder title.
POSTERS (OS1)
31" x 43.5" poster in red and black on a white background. Describes the work of the
Christian Evangelical Mission in Poland and Soviet Russia (White Russia, Ukraine and
Galicia) using text, a map, photographs of workers and activities. Ca. early 1920s.
10" x 17" poster, brown letters on an ivory background. Announces a service in
Cleveland to meet Paul Rader and ten missionaries going to India under the auspices of
World Wide Christian Couriers. Includes photos of Rader and the missionaries and
information about World Wide Christian Couriers. N.d.
10.75" x 19" poster, black ink on ivory background. Poster with the names and photos of
the sixteen missionaries of the Africa Inland Mission who were supported by Moody
Church. Sometime between 1911 and 1925.
24" x 36" poster, black ink on white background. Poster is printed on both sides. Fund
raising appeal that describes the plans for the new Moody Church to be located on Clark
Street. Includes a great deal of text on the history of the church, the activities and
facilities planned for the new building, photos of the previous homes of the church,
sketches and floor plans of the new building, pledges of support from the various
departments of the church. 1925.
12" x 15" certificate, black ink on an ivory background. Certifies charter membership
(number 17) in the Moody Church Assembly Grounds at Cedar Lake, Indiana. Illustrated
with pictures of the Chicago Avenue Church, the Moody Rescue Mission, the Young
Woman's Home, the Italian Mission, and the Young People's building. 1914.
10.25" x 13.5" certificate, black ink and pictures of multicolored flowers on white
background. Moody Sunday school, Cradle Roll certificate, 1920.
24" x 18.5 poster, multicolored pictures on a white background. Poster shows a book
divided into twenty-three pictures. Each picture shows how Christ is relevant to a
particular group or occupation, with a relevant Bible text. Entitled, God Calls the Roll of
the World's Workers. Drawings by W. J. Dittmar. N.d.
14" x 22" poster, black ink on white background. Poster all in Swedish, appears to
announce an meeting led by Gustaf Johnson at the Moody Tabernacle. Poster also
includes photos of Russian pastors and the band of the Russian Bible Institute. The
meeting apparently was to raise support for evangelism in Russia. 1918.
Two 17.25" x 21.5" posters, black and red ink on white background, one 15" x 20" poster,
red and black ink on white background. All posters have the words "Africa Inland
Church Missionary Board" in English, the rest of the posters are in an African language.
Besides text, they also include photos, apparently of AIC leaders and activities. 1979-1981.
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LOCATION RECORD
Accession 86-46, 86-50
Type of Material: Periodicals
The following items are available in the Archives Reading Room:
Good News [newsletter of Moody Church, Chicago] Vol. 1, No. 1 (3/18/1916) through Vol. 6, No. 52 (December 28, 1921)
Hearing and Doing [magazine of Africa Inland Mission] Vol. 16, no.3, 7-9/1911
The Moody Church Herald [newsletter of Moody Church, Chicago] Incomplete set. Vol. 1, No. 2 (2/1902) through Vol. 15 No. 12 (12/1916)
The Moody Church News [newsletter of Moody Church, Chicago] Incomplete set. Volume 8 No. 1 (1/1923) through Vol. 64 No. 2 (4-6/1980) . February 1931 issue.
Our Field and Work [newsletter of the Chicago Avenue Church, Chicago] Vol. 1 No. 1 (7/1897) through Vol. 5 No. 1 (July 1901)
Pen and Scissors [newsletter of the Chicago Avenue Church, Chicago] Vol. 1 No. 6 (2/4/1888) through Vol. 1 No. 34 (8/18/1888)
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LOCATION RECORD
Accession #: 86-46, 86-50
Type of material: Photo Albums
The following items are located in the PHOTO ALBUM FILE; request by Folder Titles (in
bold) at the beginning of each entry below.
MOODY CHURCH - I. 22 black and white pictures (only one is a photograph) of the Chicago
Avenue church, Sunday school classrooms, Moody Church pastors, music directors, Sunday
school superintendents, etc. Most but not all of the pictures are labeled. This appears to be only
a fragment of a larger book. Some pages are loose, some pictures have been ripped out and some
pages have been cut up. Ca. 1916.
MOODY CHURCH - II. 98 black and white pictures (mostly photos, although also postcards
and newspaper clippings). The scrapbook was put together by someone (unnamed) who had
recently returned from a trip to visit mission stations in Guatemala. Almost all pictures are
labeled. Included in the album are pictures of colonial ruins, Indian weaving, street scenes in
Guatemala City, Antigua and San Antonio, a New Year's Day procession, scenes of Indian life,
activities at the Presbyterian Mission in Guatemala City, Guatemala pastors and laypeople,
weddings, baptisms, sun worshipping ceremony, market day scenes, a procession of the Virgin
Mary, scenes of the Garden of the Rose Orphanage, steamers, classes at the mission school in
San Antonio, scenes at the mission hospital. The string that bound the notebooks together is
missing and the pages are probably not in their original order. Some of the photos and postcards
are loose. Post-1914.
MOODY CHURCH - III. 46 black and white pictures (photos, negative and postcards) of
scenes in Nigeria. Most pictures are labeled. Scenes of Muslim trader traveling by boats and
caravans, Tuareg and Fulani (also known as the Fulah) tribesmen, villages, bridges, a prison gang
building a road in southern Nigeria, the dress of women from different tribes, a native hospital
and dispensary, canoes, the work of the Church Missionary Society in Zania, a Muslim chief, the
girls school at Wushishi, Muslims praying. Many pictures are missing, as is the front cover. Ca.
1928.
MOODY CHURCH - IV. 79 black and white photos in an album labeled "China". Most of the
photos appear to be of China Inland Mission programs in northern China. See map attached to
one of the letters in folder 32-6. Most photos are labeled. Includes a chapel presided over by
Gerhard Jacobsen, students in Tangsi, Chinese Christians, Tibetan sisters, mission buildings, a
Chinese bride, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Mosley, Chinese women's hospital, scenes from Miss Boehm's
station, classes at the Shansi Bible Institute, coolies, CIM Bible school in northern China, Bible
classes at Lahokow, a Chinese evangelist, travel scenes, Mr. and Mrs. Lagerquist, Misses Larson
and Newcomb, group shot of the Laocokow congregation, the Sikwan Girl's Boarding School, a
Chinese policeman. Possibly this photo album was put together by missionary Victor Plymire.
Some photos are loose and stored with the album and some are missing. N.d.
MOODY CHURCH - V. 178 black and white photos in an album labeled on the cover "Japan
for Christ." On the bottom right corner is "H. S. Kimura '01." Henry Seimatsu Kimura, who put
this scrapbook together, was a Japanese Christian evangelist, a member of Moody Church
(referred to in folder 33-1) and a 1901 graduate of Moody Bible Institute. The photos show his
evangelistic activities in Japan, his Japanese and Western missionary co-workers, and his family.
Included are pictures of people and groups he converted and/or baptized, Hajima Aori, H. Pedlay,
places where Kimura held meetings (including factories, schools, rural areas, towns), grave of
Nunukawa, a soldier who was persecuted for his faith, scenes of Japanese life, scenes from
Kimura's preaching mission in Loo Chiou, Okinawa in 1917, scenes from Kimura's preaching
mission to various Pacific Islands such as Truk, Saipan, and others; scenes of Japanese
administration of islands and naval forces. Ca. 1917-1918.
MOODY CHURCH - VI. 171 black and white photos taken by G. P. Rockwell of the Fresh Air
Work of the Moody Church Sunday school in Ravinia and Glencoe, Illinois. During the summer,
city children would be taken for two weeks to what was essentially a Christian camp. Covers are
loose and some photos are missing. Included are scenes of the staff, the large house where
everyone stayed, the facilities, children playing, farm activities, hiking, the seashore, group shots
of the children, picnics, games, calisthenics, Bible classes. On the inside front cover is a typed
explanation of the album. Also pasted on in the front pages of the book are some newsletter
pictures of leaders of the church during Paul Rader's pastorate. The photos are apparently from
1903-1905, with a few on one page from 1909.
MOODY CHURCH - VII. 63 black and white photos in an album labeled "Africa". Scenes of
mission activities in various part of Africa, perhaps of workers supported by Moody Church.
Included are Nigerian village life, markets, Rukuba people, a chief's compound, horsemen
gathering for a hunt, slaves, native preachers, catechumens class, Belgian Congo scenes, Agikuya
people, a girls' school at Githumu, baptisms, African dances, marriages, Kenyan scenes, Rift
Valley Academy, missionary homes. Fulani (also known as the Fulah) people. Missionaries
appear to be from the Africa Inland Mission and Sudan Interior Mission.
MOODY CHURCH - VIII. 309 black and white photos taken by William W. Borden of his
trip around the world with Rev. Walter Eerdman. Covers are loose. Photos of boat travel,
Japanese urban and rural scenes, temples, Shanghai and other Chinese cities, U.S. gunboats,
Hong Kong, Singapore, Ceylon, southern India, various Indian cities including Calcutta, Madras,
Allahbad, and Delhi, Egypt, Egyptian ruins, Jerusalem, Constantinople, Athens, Switzerland,
England, Scotland. Many photos badly faded. Each is captioned, although in dark ink on a dark
page, so they are often very hard to read. 1905.
MOODY CHURCH - IX - Publications - Scrapbook; 1907-1911 (formerly folder 69-1) researchers must use the microfilm instead of the original.
MOODY CHURCH - X - Publications - Scrapbook; 1911-1917 (formerly folder 69-2) researchers must use the microfilm instead of the original.
MOODY CHURCH - XI - Publications - Scrapbook - Rader; 1915-1919 (formerly
folder 69-3) researchers must use the microfilm instead of the original.
MOODY CHURCH - XII - Publications - Scrapbook; 1917-1930 (formerly folder 70-1) researchers must use the microfilm instead of the original.
MOODY CHURCH - XIII - Publications - Sunday School - Scrapbook; 1907-1911 (formerly folder 70-2) researchers must use the microfilm instead of the original.
MOODY CHURCH - XIV - Publications - Sunday School - Scrapbook; 1914-1921 (formerly folder 70-3) researchers must use the microfilm instead of the original.
LOCATION RECORD
Accession #: 86-46, 86-50
Type of material: Photographs
The following items are located in the PHOTO FILE; request by Folder Titles (in bold) at the
beginning of each entry below. All the photos are black and white, unless otherwise noted.
Many folders contain newspaper pictures clipped from newspapers or magazines. These are not
included in the photo count at the end of each description. If there is no indication of the number
of photos, the file contains 1 photo.
AFRO-AMERICANS. Photo of the North African Battalion Choir, led by Tom Wilson, on a
makeshift stage someplace in North Africa. 2 photos. 1943. (see Ironside's correspondence
with Wilson in folder 15-5)
ARNOLD, GLENN. Portrait photo. N.d.
BAKKE, RAYMOND. Portrait photo, scenes from a seminar he led at Moody Church on outreach. Bakke is not necessarily in every one of these photos. 1983. 14 photos.
BARROWS, CLIFF. Portrait photo. N.d.
BIOLA. Choir of male and female BIOLA students. N.d. 1 photo.
BLANCHARD, JESSIE. Portrait photo. N.d.
BOLLACK, HARRY. Portrait photo. N.d.
BOYER, DAVE. Portrait photo. N.d.
BREESE, DAVID.. Portrait photo. N.d.
CENTRAL AMERICAN MISSION. Portrait photo of founder C. I. Scofield. N.d.
CRONK, MALCOLM. Portrait photo. N.d. 2 photos.
DEHANN, RICHARD. Portrait photo. N.d.
DEYNEKA, PETER, JR. Speaking at the 1973 foreign mission conference held at Moody Church. 1 photo.
DEYNEKA, PETER, SR. Peter and Vera Deyneka standing together, color. N.d. 1 photo.
DINWIDDIE, RICHARD D. Proof sheets of Dinwiddie leading Moody choir, portrait photos, candid shots. N.d. 10 photos.
DIXON, AMZI CLARENCE. Portrait photo. N.d.
DIXON, HELEN CADBURY ALEXANDER. Portrait photo. She was the widow of both A.C. Dixon and Charles Alexander. N.d.
DRYER, EMMA. Portrait photo. N.d.
EVANGELICALISM--RELATIONS--JUDAISM. A banquet held at Moody Church of Christian and Jewish leaders. 1970. 10 photos.
EVANGELISTIC WORK--BRAZIL. Pictures of Conrado de Lima, his wife Marietta and
their work in the Brazilian towns of Catalao, Paraiso, and Retiro. 6 photos. 1913. (See
material about Conrado's work in folder 32-5)
EVANGELISTIC WORK--UNITED STATES. Paul Rader preaching in downtown Chicago ca. 1918; Mark J. Goodger (from folder 13-4), bicycle evangelist; group portrait of
workers at the Union Gospel Center in Flint, Michigan, n.d.; group shot of the attendees of the
1931 evangelistic convention held at Moody in 1931. 4 photos.
FALWELL, JERRY. Portrait photo. N.d.
FAR EAST BROADCASTING COMPANY. Portrait photo of A. Reid Jepson. N.d.
FONTAINE, TONY. Portrait photos. N.d. 2 photos.
FRIZEN, EDWARD L.. Portrait photo. N.d.
GLASSER, ARTHUR. Portrait photo. N.d.
GRAY, JAMES M. Portrait photo, Gray standing on street corner. 1935, n.d. 2 photos.
HAGGAI, JOHN. Portrait photo. N.d.
HAMMONTREE, HOMER. Portrait photo. N.d.
HARPER, JOHN. Portrait photo. N.d. 2 photos.
HARRINGTON, BOB. Harrington preaching. N.d. 2 photos.
HERMANSON, HOWARD. Snapshots of Hermanson meeting with people. 1966, n.d. 1 color, 2 b/w photos.
HILLIS, DONALD. Portrait photo. N.d.
HINES, JEROME. Portrait photo. N.d.
HOFFMANN, OSWALD J. Portrait photo. N.d.
HOKE, DONALD E. Portrait photo and speaking at a podium during the church's 1975 foreign mission conference. 1975, n.d. 2 photos.
HUTCHINGS, ERIC. Portrait photo. N.d.
INNES, JOHN. Portrait photo and snapshot. N.d. 2 photos
IRONSIDE, HARRY A. Portrait photos, informal shots of Ironside visiting Moody's grave, preaching, mingling with members of the church, Ironside's tombstone, Ironside with
Charles Porter, Peter Philpott, Gypsy Smith, Harry Herring, and John Ironside, Ironside with
Philpott and others at the burning of the church's mortgage. 1907-1943, n.d. 11 photos,
clippings.
IRONSIDE, HARRY A (oversize). Wide angle shot of Ironside in the pulpit preaching to a congregation that completely fills the auditorium and balcony of Moody Church. Probably
part of the century celebration of D. L. Moody's birth. Chicago. 12" x 20". Black and white.
Ca. 1937.
ISRAEL. Commercial shots of scenes in Jerusalem, Nazareth, Jericho, Bethlehem, Haifa, shepherd with sheep. N.d. 9 photos.
JACOBY, W. S. Portrait photo. N.d.
JONES, CLARENCE. Portrait photo. 1921.
KANTZER, KENNETH. Portrait photo. 1971.
LUTZER, ERWIN. Lutzer with his family, George Sweeting, John Walvoord at Lutzer's installation in 1980. 4 photos.
MCKEE, ARTHUR. Portrait photos, McKee with his wife Ethyl at Winona Lake, Indiana, n.d. 4 photos, clipping.
MISSIONS--CHINA. Missionaries to China supported by Moody Church, missionaries in Western and Chinese dress, Chinese congregations, C. J. Glittenberg and wife, W. Percy
Knight and wife in Shansi, the CIM headquarters in the International Settlement in Shanghai,
effects of famine in an unidentified province, possibly in northwest China, Chinese official
traveling in litter, preaching hall, Chinese evangelist Li Kuam Fah. 1910-1914, n.d. 22
photos.
MISSIONS--NIGERIA. Esther Anderson, A. W. and M. D. Bailey at Chibia, a group of orphans. 1940, n.d. 3 photos.
MISSIONS--ZAIRE. Mr. and Mrs. Fred G. Lasse.
MOODY, DWIGHT L. Portrait photos, sketches of Moody, Moody with his early Sunday school class, color postcard of the hall where Moody preached in Philadelphia. 1875-1899, n.d. 7 photos, clippings.
MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE. Color postcard of the Chicago Avenue Church and the
Moody Bible Institute Woman's department, color postcard of radio station WMBI, color postcard of the Moody Bible Institute from the Moody Alumni Association, construction of the woman's dormitory, widening LaSalle Street in front of the Institute. 1909-1990. 15 photos, clipping.
MOODY CHURCH--BANDS. Instrumental groups of the church, including one led by Richard J. Oliver and including Clarence Jones. 1912-1919, n.d. 5 photos.
MOODY CHURCH--BUILDINGS--EXTERIORS. Photos and sketches of the buildings in which the church has met: the Illinois Street Church, the Chicago Street Church, the Moody
Tabernacle, and the church on Clark Street (no pictures of the North Side Tabernacle).
Almost all pictures are of the Clark Street Church, including several of it being constructed in
1924 and 1925. There is also a photo of the Moody Fresh Air Home and the Clyburn Gospel
Church. Also in the folder are a few aerial photos of the neighborhood of the Clark Street
church. 1921-1974, n.d. 22 color (including four postcards and one transparency), 46 b/w,
clippings.
MOODY CHURCH--BUILDINGS--EXTERIORS (oversize). Church structure at Clark and North Avenue under construction. 8" x 19". Black and white. Ca. 1924
MOODY CHURCH--BUILDINGS--INTERIORS. Photos and sketches of some of the buildings in which the church has met: the Chicago Street Church, the Moody Tabernacle, and
the church on Clark Street (no pictures of the Illinois Street Church or the North Side
Tabernacle), as well as the church's office building. Included are many pictures of the main
auditorium of the Clark Street church. One picture of the communion table set at the Moody
Tabernacle. 1918-1982, n.d. 10 color (including two transparencies), 37 b/w.
MOODY CHURCH--CEDAR LAKE. Exteriors and interiors of camp buildings, group shots, picnics, boating scenes, Paul Rader with groups and preaching, miscellaneous scenes of
camp life, such as Rader feeding chickens and a goat being milked. 1916-1918, n.d. 29
photos.
MOODY CHURCH--CHOIRS. Formal pictures of choirs (including one children's choir). 1921-1954, n.d. 7 photos, clippings.
MOODY CHURCH--CHOIRS (oversize). Choir sitting in choir loft in a formal pose, possibly
at Christmas time. 12" x 19.5". Black and white, ca. 1928.
MOODY CHURCH--CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR SOCIETY. Group portraits of CE members, pictures of their meeting room. 1898-1910, n.d. 9 photos.
MOODY CHURCH--DAY CARE. Proof sheet of candid scenes at the church's day care center, including staff, parents and children. 1972. 1 photo.
MOODY CHURCH--DIAL-A-STORY. Various scenes related to the church's telephone story program, including pictures of story teller Aunt Theresa, the stories being recorded, staff
members, the phone bank, and children listening. 1969, n.d. 4 color, 31 b/w photos.
MOODY CHURCH--GROUP SHOTS. Wide range of pictures of groups associated in one way or another with the church, such as classes, banquets, interest associations, etc. Some
are informal snapshots, other are formal portraits. Many pictures are unidentified. Among the
groups are picnickers, a magic lantern presentation, audience at the Marching Youth radio
program, the 1982 woman's seminar at the church, the Finance Committee, Sunday school
pageants, Founders Day ceremonies, nursery, the basketball team, the Young Married People's
Fellowship, elders, office staff, the Tract League, and the Yokefellow's Band. 1908-1983, n.d.
3 color and 96 b/w photos, clippings.
MOODY CHURCH--HISTORY CENTER. Scenes for the dedication of the church's History Center in 1968, including a picture of George Sweeting, Herman Hermanson, and
Wilbur M. Smith together. 1968. 5 photos.
MOODY CHURCH--MISSIONS--FOREIGN. Scenes from the annual foreign mission conferences held at the church, including pictures of various missionary speakers talking to
church members and of the exhibits on different cultures or the work of various missions set
up at the church for the conferences. Exhibits by China Inland Mission, Central American
Mission, South Africa General Mission. Speakers include Jim Johnson. Also a group shot of
the Girl's Missionary Study Circle. 1950-1982, n.d. 57 photos.
MOODY CHURCH--MISSIONS--HOME. Scenes from the annual home missions conference held at the church. 1956-1982, n.d. 17 photos.
MOODY CHURCH--NEW ENGLAND DINNER. Scenes from the annual event. Includes pictures of attendees in colonial costume. Among the individuals shown are
Elizabeth and Eugene Odin and E. Y. Woolley. 1911-1983. 25 photos.
MOODY CHURCH--ORGAN. Shots of the organ in the main auditorium, including pictures of repair on the pipes and snapshots of organists Samuel Burkholder and Pat Johnson.
1969-1974, n.d. 9 photos, clipping.
MOODY CHURCH--SUNDAY SCHOOL. Scenes of classes of all ages,
picnics and other outings, individual students and teachers. Among the groups
shown are E. Y. Woolley's class, the Men's Bible Class, the Friendly Bible Class,
Daily Vacation Bible School, the 75th anniversary of the Sunday school in 1933,
the Brotherhood Class, the Homebuilders' Class, Primary department, the Junior
Department, and the Bus ministry. Also a portrait photo of Frances L. Bennett.
1908-1978. 68 photos, clippings.
MOODY CHURCH--USHER BAND. Group shots of the ushers, usually standing outside the main entrance. Also pictures of head usher Fred Hachtel. 1926-1934, n.d. 8 photos,
clippings.
MOODY CHURCH--YOUTH CAMP. Scenes from the church's annual camp at Loon Lake, Illinois. N.d. 5 photos.
NARRAMORE, CLYDE. Portrait photo, n.d.
NORTH AFRICAN MISSION. Harold Stalley in Libya. N.d. 1 color photo.
OLFORD, STEPHEN. Scenes's from Olford's installation as pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in New York. Participants included Billy Graham and Alan Redpath. 1959.
11 photos.
PEARCE, BILL. Portrait photos. 1971, n.d. 3 photos.
PHILPOTT, P. W. Portrait photos and pictures of Philpott with his family. One group picture of a Philpott family reunion. 1968, n.d. 6 photos.
RADER, DANIEL PAUL. Portrait photos and snapshots of Rader with his family, preaching, standing with members of the church such as George Meeker, John Hunter and Ed
James. 1921, n.d. 9 photos, clippings.
REDPATH, ALAN. Portrait photos, pictures of Redpath preaching, with his family, attending various church functions, at a Keswick convention. 1950-1959, n.d. 1 color, 15 b/w
photos.
RILEY, WILLIAM BELL. Profile. N.d.
SANKEY, IRA. Portrait photo. N.d.
SCHEEL, RICHARD. Portrait photo, with family, speaking at a Moody conference, portrait photo of Margory Scheel. 1959-1982. 4 photos.
SCHAEFFER, FRANCIS, IV. Proof sheet of Schaeffer speaking at Moody Church in 1976. 1 photo.
SHEA, GEORGE BEVERLY. Portrait photo, scenes of Shea singing at Moody Church. N.d. 5 photos.
SHIELDS, T. T. Portrait photo. N.d.
SIMPSON, A. B. Portrait photo. N.d.
SONGS IN THE NIGHT. Proof sheets and snap shots, mostly of the annual banquet held for supporters of the program, but also some pictures of the program
being produced and of the staff, such as Richard Florence, Kent Creswell, Richard Dinwiddie,
Brandt Gustafson, Suzanne Johnson, Ruth Lawrence, Elma Limkemann, and Jerry Swanson.
1968-1982, n.d. 99 photos.
SPORTS--RELIGIOUS ASPECTS. Portrait photos of athletes Don Kessinger, Darryl Imhoff, Craig Baynham, and Jim King. N.d. 4 photos.
SUDAN INTERIOR MISSION. Portrait photo of Guy W. Playfair. N.d.
SUNDAY, WILLIAM ASHLEY "BILLY". Portrait photo. N.d.
SWEETING, GEORGE. Portrait photos, pictures of Sweeting preaching, with his
family, attending various church functions, in his library, broadcasting, creating a chalk picture, a print of one of his chalk drawings, at his farewell party, family Christmas card, at the groundbreaking of the Sweeting Center. 1968-1971, n.d.. 48 photos.
TORREY, REUBEN ARCHER, SR. Portrait photo. N.d.
VOM BRUCH, HARRY. Vom Bruch and Ethel McKee at the grave of Dwight L. Moody. N.d.
WIERSBE, WARREN. Portrait photo, with family, preaching, with George Sweeting, during his installation service. 1971, n.d. 19 photos.
WORLD WAR I. Queen Elizabeth of Belgium with Moody Church missionaries Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Norton inspecting clothes sent from the church to Europe for Belgian orphans.
1918. 5 photos.
WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS. Cecilia Douglas and Julia Supple standing in front of the hut in Mexico where they were studying the language of the Tajolalab Indians. 1943. 1
photo.
WYRTZEN, JACK. Wyrtzen, Ironside, Clarence Jones and others at Word of Life camp in
1950, Wyrtzen crusade at Moody Church in 1966. 2 photo.
YOUTH FOR CHRIST--GENERAL. Group shot of YFC leaders, including Torrey Johnson, Billy Graham, Robert Cook, George Wilson, T. W. Wilson, Cliff Barrows. Ca. 1945
1 photo.
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LOCATION RECORD
Accession #: 86-46, 86-50
Type of material: Slides
The following items are located in the SLIDE FILE. All of the slides are in color.
S1-S33 - Scenes from the Moody Church Sunday school, showing classes from infants to
adults. N.d., ca. 1970s
S34-S52. Scenes related to the church's Dial-A-Story program, including handouts, staff
members talking on the phone, children listening to stories on the phone. 1968-1973.
S53-S57. Scenes from a seminar for working women held at Moody Church on March 16, 1983.
Speakers included Beth Jones and Mary Welchel.
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LOCATION RECORD
Accession #: 98-71
Type of material: Videos
The Archives has one copy of each video, unless otherwise noted. The following items are in the VIDEO FILE:
Video | Type | b&w / c | Length in minutes | Title | Description | Date |
| V1 | vhs | c | 36 min. | Memories | A video montage created for the Christian Companionship Club reunion showing scenes from Moody Church’s history. Features audio and video clippings of pastors Ironside, Logsdon, and Redpath speaking. Also includes a clip from an interview with Torrey Johnson. | Sept. 28, 1998 |
| CONTAINER LIST | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Torrey, R. A.; n.d. | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | Dixon, A. C.; 1907-1911 | ||||||
| 1 | 3 | Woolley, E. J.; 1909-1920 | ||||||
| 1 | 4 | Rader, Paul; 1917-1925 | ||||||
| Philpott, P. W. | ||||||||
| 1 | 5 | A; 1928 | ||||||
| 1 | 6 | Anonymous; 1928 | ||||||
| 1 | 7 | Annual Report; 1928 | ||||||
| 1 | 8 | B; 1923-1928 | ||||||
| 1 | 9 | C; 1928 | ||||||
| 1 | 10 | Central American Mission; 1928 | ||||||
| 1 | 11 | Clergy Bureau; 1928 | ||||||
| 1 | 12 | County Clerk; 1928 | ||||||
| 1 | 13 | D; 1928 | ||||||
| 1 | 14 | E; 1928 | ||||||
| 1 | 15 | F; 1928 | ||||||
| 1 | 16 | G; 1922-1928 | ||||||
| 1 | 17 | H; 1928 | ||||||
| 1 | 18 | I; 1924-1928 | ||||||
| 1 | 19 | J; 1928 | ||||||
| 2 | 1 | K; 1928 | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | L; 1928 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | Lamphear, Mr. G.A.; 1928 | ||||||
| 2 | 4 | M; 1928 | ||||||
| 2 | 5 | Memos; 1928 | ||||||
| 2 | 6 | Milwaukee; 1928 | ||||||
| 2 | 7 | N; 1923-1928 | ||||||
| 2 | 8 | O; 1928 | ||||||
| 2 | 9 | P; 1925-1928 | ||||||
| 2 | 10 | Programs; 1928 | ||||||
| 2 | 11 | R; 1922-1928 | ||||||
| 2 | 12 | S; 1928 | ||||||
| 2 | 13 | T; 1923-1928 | ||||||
| 2 | 14 | Tacoma Meetings; 1927-1928 | ||||||
| 2 | 15 | W; 1928 | ||||||
| 2 | 16 | X-Y-Z; 1928 | ||||||
| 2 | 17 | Philpott; 1943-1967 | ||||||
| 2 | 18 | Porter, Charles A.; 1940-1944 | ||||||
| Ironside, H. A. | ||||||||
| Correspondence | ||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 1936-1939 | ||||||
| 3 | 2 | A; 1941 | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | Africa Inland Mission; 1940-1941 | ||||||
| 3 | 4 | Ba-Bi; 1941 | ||||||
| 3 | 5 | Bl-Bu; 1941 | ||||||
| 3 | 6 | Ca-Ch; 1941 | ||||||
| 3 | 7 | Central American Mission; 1938-1940 | ||||||
| 3 | 8 | Ch-Cu; 1941 | ||||||
| 4 | 1 | D; 1941 | ||||||
| 4 | 2 | E; 1941 | ||||||
| 4 | 3 | F; 1941 | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | G; 1941 | ||||||
| 4 | 5 | George Gruen - Citizens Bank; 1937-1940 | ||||||
| 4 | 6 | Ha-He; 1941 | ||||||
| 4 | 7 | Hi-Hu; 1941 | ||||||
| 5 | 1 | I-J; 1941 | ||||||
| 5 | 2 | K; 1941 | ||||||
| 5 | 3 | L; 1941 | ||||||
| 5 | 4 | Loizeaux Bros.; 1941 | ||||||
| M | ||||||||
| 5 | 5 | Jan-June, 1941 | ||||||
| 5 | 6 | July-Dec, 1941 | ||||||
| 5 | 7 | Ma-Mc; 1941 | ||||||
| 6 | 1 | Missionary Rally; 1941 | ||||||
| 6 | 2 | Montrose Conference; 1940-1941 | ||||||
| 6 | 3 | Ne-Ny; 1941 | ||||||
| 6 | 4 | O; 1941 | ||||||
| 6 | 5 | P; 1941 | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | Q; 1941 | ||||||
| 6 | 7 | R; 1941 | ||||||
| 6 | 8 | Radio Hour; 1939-1941 | ||||||
| 6 | 9 | Sa-Sl; 1941 | ||||||
| 7 | 1 | Sm-Sw; 1941 | ||||||
| 7 | 2 | Smith; 1933-1941 | ||||||
| 7 | 3 | T; 1941 | ||||||
| 7 | 4 | U; 1941 | ||||||
| 7 | 5 | V; 1941 | ||||||
| W | ||||||||
| 7 | 6 | Jan-June, 1941 | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | July-Dec, 1941 | ||||||
| 7 | 8 | Western Book & Tract Co.; 1941 | ||||||
| 7 | 9 | X-Y-Z; 1941 | ||||||
| 8 | 1 | A; 1942 | ||||||
| 8 | 2 | Africa Inland Mission; 1942 | ||||||
| 8 | 3 | Anderson, Grace; 1941-1942 | ||||||
| 8 | 4 | B; 1942 | ||||||
| 8 | 5 | C; 1942 | ||||||
| 8 | 6 | D; 1942 | ||||||
| 8 | 7 | E; 1942 | ||||||
| 9 | 1 | F; 1942 | ||||||
| 9 | 2 | Finney Memorial; 1940-1942 | ||||||
| 9 | 3 | G; 1942 | ||||||
| H | ||||||||
| 9 | 4 | Jan-Sept, 1942 | ||||||
| 9 | 5 | Oct-Dec, 1942 | ||||||
| 9 | 6 | I; 1941-1942 | ||||||
| 9 | 7 | J; 1942 | ||||||
| 9 | 8 | K; 1942 | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | L; 1942 | ||||||
| 10 | 1 | Loizeaux Bros.; 1942 | ||||||
| M | ||||||||
| 10 | 2 | Jan-June, 1942 | ||||||
| 10 | 3 | July-Dec, 1942 | ||||||
| 10 | 4 | Marriages by H.A.I.; 1931-1942 | ||||||
| 10 | 5 | Mission Rally; 1942 | ||||||
| 10 | 6 | Montrose Bible Conference; 1941-1942 | ||||||
| 10 | 7 | N; 1942 | ||||||
| 10 | 8 | O; 1942 | ||||||
| 10 | 9 | P; 1942 | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | R; 1942 | ||||||
| 11 | 1 | S; 1942 | ||||||
| 11 | 2 | T; 1942 | ||||||
| 11 | 3 | U-V; 1942 | ||||||
| 11 | 4 | W; 1942 | ||||||
| 11 | 5 | Western B & T Co.; 1942 | ||||||
| 11 | 6 | X-Z; 1942 | ||||||
| 12 | 1 | A; 1943 | ||||||
| 12 | 2 | Africa Inland Mission; 1943 | ||||||
| 12 | 3 | B; 1943 | ||||||
| 12 | 4 | C; 1943 | ||||||
| 12 | 5 | D; 1943 | ||||||
| 13 | 1 | E; 1943 | ||||||
| 13 | 2 | F; 1943 | ||||||
| 13 | 3 | Fraser-Manners; 1935-1943 | ||||||
| 13 | 4 | G; 1943 | ||||||
| 13 | 5 | H; 1943 | ||||||
| 13 | 6 | I-J; 1943 | ||||||
| 13 | 7 | K; 1943 | ||||||
| 14 | 1 | L; 1943 | ||||||
| 14 | 2 | Loizeaux Bros.; 1943 | ||||||
| 14 | 3 | M; 1943 | ||||||
| 14 | 4 | Home Missionary Rally; 1942 | ||||||
| 14 | 5 | Letters to Missionaries; 1942-1943 | ||||||
| 14 | 6 | N; 1943 | ||||||
| 14 | 7 | National Association of Evangelicals; 1941-1943 | ||||||
| 14 | 8 | O; 1943 | ||||||
| 14 | 9 | Sa-Sp; 1943 | ||||||
| 14 | 10 | Smith; 1942-1943 | ||||||
| 15 | 1 | Southern Bible Training School; 1943 | ||||||
| 15 | 2 | Sp-Sz; 1943 | ||||||
| 15 | 3 | T; 1943 | ||||||
| 15 | 4 | U-V; 1943 | ||||||
| 15 | 5 | W; 1943 | ||||||
| 15 | 6 | Western B & T Co.; 1943 | ||||||
| 15 | 7 | X-Z; 1943 | ||||||
| 15 | 8 | A; 1944 | ||||||
| 16 | 1 | Africa Inland Mission; 1944 | ||||||
| 16 | 2 | Ba-Be; 1944 | ||||||
| 16 | 3 | Bi-Bu; 1944 | ||||||
| 16 | 4 | C; 1944 | ||||||
| 16 | 5 | Christmas Missionary Gifts; 1944 | ||||||
| 16 | 6 | D; 1944 | ||||||
| 16 | 7 | E; 1944 | ||||||
| 16 | 8 | F; 1944 | ||||||
| 17 | 1 | G; 1944 | ||||||
| 17 | 2 | H; 1944 | ||||||
| 17 | 3 | I-J; 1944 | ||||||
| 17 | 4 | K; 1944 | ||||||
| 17 | 5 | L; 1944 | ||||||
| 17 | 6 | Loizeaux Bros.; 1944 | ||||||
| M | ||||||||
| 17 | 7 | Jan-June, 1944 | ||||||
| 18 | 1 | July-Dec, 1944 | ||||||
| 18 | 2 | Letters to Foreign Missionaries; 1944 | ||||||
| 18 | 3 | Missionary Rally; 1944 | ||||||
| 18 | 4 | N; 1944 | ||||||
| 18 | 5 | O; 1944 | ||||||
| 18 | 6 | Oakland Mission; 1943-1944 | ||||||
| 18 | 7 | P; 1944 | ||||||
| 18 | 8 | R; 1944 | ||||||
| 18 | 9 | Sa-Sm; 1944 | ||||||
| 19 | 1 | Se-Sy; 1944 | ||||||
| 19 | 2 | Smith; 1944 | ||||||
| 19 | 3 | Southern Bible Training School; 1944 | ||||||
| 19 | 4 | T; 1944 | ||||||
| 19 | 5 | U-V; 1944 | ||||||
| 19 | 6 | W; 1944 | ||||||
| 19 | 7 | Western Book & Tract Co.; 1944 | ||||||
| 19 | 8 | X-Z; 1944 | ||||||
| 19 | 9 | Zondervan Pub. House; 1944 | ||||||
| 19 | 10 | A; 1945 | ||||||
| 19 | 11 | African Inland Mission; 1945 | ||||||
| 20 | 1 | Ba-Bo; 1945 | ||||||
| 20 | 2 | Books - Fall Grants, Grace Theol. Seminary, Bob Jones, etc.; 1945 | ||||||
| 20 | 3 | Bp-Bz; 1945 | ||||||
| 20 | 4 | C; 1945 | ||||||
| 20 | 5 | Christmas Letters; 1945 | ||||||
| 20 | 6 | Cohn, Joseph; 1944-1945 | ||||||
| 20 | 7 | D; 1945 | ||||||
| 20 | 8 | E; 1945 | ||||||
| 21 | 1 | F; 1945 | ||||||
| 21 | 2 | G; 1945 | ||||||
| 21 | 3 | H; 1945 | ||||||
| 21 | 4 | I; 1945 | ||||||
| 21 | 5 | J; 1945 | ||||||
| 21 | 6 | K-L; 1945 | ||||||
| 21 | 7 | LeTourneau; 1945 | ||||||
| 22 | 1 | Loizeaux Bros.; 1945 | ||||||
| 22 | 2 | Ma-Me; 1945 | ||||||
| 22 | 3 | Mf-Mz; 1945 | ||||||
| 22 | 4 | Foreign Missionary Rally; 1944 | ||||||
| 22 | 5 | Smith; 1945 | ||||||
| 22 | 6 | Sn-Sy; 1945 | ||||||
| 22 | 7 | T; 1945 | ||||||
| 22 | 8 | Tuttle, Charles R.; 1938-1944 | ||||||
| 22 | 9 | U; 1945 | ||||||
| 22 | 10 | V; 1945 | ||||||
| 23 | 1 | W; 1945 | ||||||
| 23 | 2 | Western B & T Co.; 1945 | ||||||
| 23 | 3 | X-Y-Z; 1945 | ||||||
| 23 | 4 | Zondervan; 1945 | ||||||
| 23 | 5 | A; 1946 | ||||||
| 23 | 6 | Africa Inland Mission; 1945-1946 | ||||||
| 23 | 7 | American Assn. for Jewish Evan.; 1945-1946 | ||||||
| 23 | 8 | B; 1946 | ||||||
| 24 | 1 | C; 1946; 1950 | ||||||
| 24 | 2 | Christian Life & Times; 1945-1946 | ||||||
| 24 | 3 | D; 1946 | ||||||
| 24 | 4 | E; 1946 | ||||||
| 24 | 5 | F; 1946 | ||||||
| 24 | 6 | G; 1946 | ||||||
| 25 | 1 | H; 1946 | ||||||
| 25 | 2 | I-J; 1946 | ||||||
| 25 | 3 | K; 1946 | ||||||
| 25 | 4 | L; 1946 | ||||||
| 25 | 5 | Loizeaux Bros.; 1946 | ||||||
| M | ||||||||
| 25 | 6 | Jan-June, 1946 | ||||||
| 26 | 1 | July-Dec, 1946 | ||||||
| 26 | 2 | Letters to Foreign Missionaries; 1946 | ||||||
| 26 | 3 | N; 1946 | ||||||
| 26 | 4 | O; 1946 | ||||||
| 26 | 5 | P; 1946 | ||||||
| 26 | 6 | R; 1946 | ||||||
| S | ||||||||
| 26 | 7 | Jan-June, 1946 | ||||||
| 27 | 1 | July-Dec, 1946 | ||||||
| 27 | 2 | Smith; 1946 | ||||||
| 27 | 3 | T; 1946 | ||||||
| 27 | 4 | U-V; 1946, 1948 | ||||||
| 27 | 5 | W; 1946 | ||||||
| 27 | 6 | Western B & T Co.; 1946 | ||||||
| 27 | 7 | Y-Z; 1946 | ||||||
| 27 | 8 | New Testament; n.d. | ||||||
| Diaries | ||||||||
| 28 | 1 | 1913-1915 | ||||||
| 28 | 2 | 1929-1931 | ||||||
| 28 | 3 | 1932-1934 | ||||||
| 28 | 4 | 1935-1936 | ||||||
| 28 | 5 | 1937-1938 | ||||||
| 29 | 1 | 1939-1940 | ||||||
| 29 | 2 | 1941-1942 | ||||||
| 29 | 3 | 1943-1944 | ||||||
| 29 | 4 | 1945-1946, 1948 | ||||||
| 29 | 5 | Life Record; 1900-1948 | ||||||
| 29 | 6 | Redpath, Alan; 1953-1962 | ||||||
| 29 | 7 | Sweeting, George; 1965-1967 | ||||||
| 29 | 8 | Wiersbe, Warren; 1971-1975 | ||||||
| 29 | 9 | Lutzer, Erwin; 1980 | ||||||
| 30 | 1 | Berean Bible Class; 1966 | ||||||
| Borden | ||||||||
| 30 | 2 | Correspondence; 1915-1916 | ||||||
| Memorabilia Scrapbook | ||||||||
| 71 | 1 | I; 1894-1927 | ||||||
| 71 | 2 | II; 1911-1931 | ||||||
| 71 | 3 | Postal Scrapbook; 1905 | ||||||
| Cedar Lake Conference Grounds | ||||||||
| 30 | 3 | Correspondences; 1916-1924 | ||||||
| 30 | 4 | Financial Journals; 1915-1920 | ||||||
| 30 | 5 | Financial Ledger; 1915-1920 | ||||||
| 30 | 6 | Legal papers; 1915-1921 | ||||||
| 30 | 7 | Timebook and Payroll; 1915-1920 | ||||||
| 65 | 1 | Voucher Register; 1915-1916 | ||||||
| 31 | 1 | Chicago Gospel Tabernacle | ||||||
| Christian Companionship Club | ||||||||
| 31 | 2 | Minutes; 1938 | ||||||
| 31 | 3 | Minutes; 1939-46 | ||||||
| 31 | 4 | Miscellaneous; 1935-98 | ||||||
| 31 | 5 | Reports; 1918 | ||||||
| 31 | 6 | Christian Endeavor; 1897-1915 | ||||||
| Church Clerk | ||||||||
| 31 | 7 | Correspondence; 1917-1926 | ||||||
| 31 | 8 | Reports; 1895-1924 | ||||||
| Committees | ||||||||
| 31 | 9 | Church Correspondence; 1909-1913 | ||||||
| 31 | 10 | Counting Reports; 1918-1920 | ||||||
| Executive | ||||||||
| 31 | 11 | Correspondence; 1897-1928; 1964-1965 | ||||||
| 31 | 12 | Newell Trial; 1909-1910 | ||||||
| 31 | 13 | Ordination; 1897, 1915-1919 | ||||||
| 31 | 14 | Fellowship; 1917-1918 | ||||||
| 31 | 15 | Finance - Correspondence; 1914-1919 | ||||||
| 31 | 16 | Mission Church of Ravenswood - Reports; 1913-1924 | ||||||
| Missions | ||||||||
| Correspondence | ||||||||
| 32 | 1 | A-B; 1911-1917 | ||||||
| 32 | 2 | C-F; 1911-1917 | ||||||
| 32 | 3 | Ceylon and India General Mission; 1917 | ||||||
| 32 | 4 | China Inland Mission; 1911-1941 | ||||||
| 32 | 5 | Evangelical Union of South America, 1911-1913 | ||||||
| 32 | 6 | G-M; 1912-1917 | ||||||
| 33 | 1 | General; 1916-1921 | ||||||
| 33 | 2 | Japan Independent Mission; 1917 | ||||||
| 33 | 3 | Mission to Lepers in India and the East; 1912-1917 | ||||||
| 33 | 4 | N-W; 1911-1917 | ||||||
| 33 | 5 | South African General Mission; 1917 | ||||||
| 33 | 6 | A - Boards; 1940-1944 | ||||||
| 34 | 1 | A-E - Donors; 1941-1943 | ||||||
| 34 | 2 | A - Individuals; 1941-44 | ||||||
| 34 | 3 | B - Individuals; 1940-44 | ||||||
| C | ||||||||
| 34 | 4 | Boards; 1940-1944 | ||||||
| 34 | 5 | Individuals; 1940-44 | ||||||
| 34 | 6 | D - Individuals; 1940-44 | ||||||
| E | ||||||||
| 35 | 1 | Boards; 1940-44 | ||||||
| 35 | 2 | Individuals; 1940-44 | ||||||
| 35 | 3 | F - Individuals; 1940-44 | ||||||
| 35 | 4 | F-J - Donors; 1941-44 | ||||||
| G | ||||||||
| 35 | 5 | Boards; 1941-43 | ||||||
| 35 | 6 | Individuals; 1940-44 | ||||||
| H | ||||||||
| 35 | 7 | Boards; 1940-44 | ||||||
| 35 | 8 | Individuals; 1940-44 | ||||||
| I-J | ||||||||
| 35 | 9 | Individuals; 1940-44 | ||||||
| 35 | 10 | Boards; 1942-44 | ||||||
| 35 | 11 | K - Boards; 1943-44 | ||||||
| 35 | 12 | K-0 - Donors; 1941-44 | ||||||
| L | ||||||||
| 35 | 13 | Boards; 1940-41 | ||||||
| 35 | 14 | Individuals; 1940-44 | ||||||
| 36 | 1 | Lang, Gladys; 1940-44 | ||||||
| M | ||||||||
| 36 | 2 | Boards; 1940-44 | ||||||
| 36 | 3 | Individuals; 1940-44 | ||||||
| N | ||||||||
| 36 | 4 | Boards; 1941-43 | ||||||
| 36 | 5 | Individuals; 1941-44 | ||||||
| O-P | ||||||||
| 36 | 6 | Boards; 1941-44 | ||||||
| 36 | 7 | Individuals; 1940-44 | ||||||
| 36 | 8 | P-Z - Donors; 1941-44 | ||||||
| 36 | 9 | R - Individuals; 1940-44 | ||||||
| S | ||||||||
| 36 | 10 | Individuals; 1940-44 | ||||||
| 37 | 1 | Boards; 1940-42 | ||||||
| 37 | 2 | Boards; 1942-44 | ||||||
| 3 | T - Individuals; 1940-44 | |||||||
| 4 | U-V - Individuals; 1940-44 | |||||||
| W | ||||||||
| 5 | Individuals; 1940-44 | |||||||
| 6 | Boards; 1941-44 | |||||||
| 7 | Z - Individuals; 1940-44 | |||||||
| 38 | 1 | Missions-Rally; 1918 | ||||||
| 38 | 2 | Foreign Missions-Rally; 1975-79 | ||||||
| 38 | 3 | Reports; 1910-1976 | ||||||
| Moody Gospel Mission | ||||||||
| 38 | 4 | Reports; 1913-1922 | ||||||
| 65 | 2 | Reports Ledgers; 1915-1920 | ||||||
| 38 | 5 | Moody Italian Mission Reports; 1921-35 | ||||||
| 38 | 6 | Music-Reports; 1910-20 | ||||||
| 38 | 7 | Nominating-Reports; 1909-27; 1973-74 | ||||||
| 38 | 8 | Open Air-Reports; 1915-1935 | ||||||
| 38 | 9 | Prudential-Reports; 1920-25 | ||||||
| 38 | 10 | Publicity-Reports; 1909-1922 | ||||||
| 38 | 11 | Reports; 1897-1924 | ||||||
| 38 | 12 | Tabernacle-Reports; 1918 | ||||||
| 38 | 13 | Visitation-Reports; 1917-1926 | ||||||
| 38 | 14 | Women's Home and Foreign Mission Society; 1911-12 | ||||||
| 39 | 1 | Women's Meeting - Report; 1897 | ||||||
| 39 | 2 | Young Women's Home - Reports; 1912-1921 | ||||||
| 39 | 3 | Death Register; 1922-1941 | 69 | 5 | Dial-a-Story; [c. 1968]-1975, n.d. | |||
| 39 | 4 | Dial-a-Story; 1977, n.d. | ||||||
| 39 | 5 | Dismissed, Dropped, Deceased List; 1922-1927 | ||||||
| 39 | 6 | Financial Reports; 1951-1958 | ||||||
| 39 | 7 | Friendly Bible Class; 1916-1950 | ||||||
| 39 | 8 | Friendship Club - Minutes and Reports; 1917-1938 | ||||||
| 40 | 1 | Fresh Air Home; 1902-1922 | ||||||
| Gifts | ||||||||
| Building Fund Receipts | ||||||||
| 40 | 2 | 1923-1924 | ||||||
| 40 | 3 | 1923-1924 | ||||||
| 40 | 4 | 1924 | ||||||
| 40 | 5 | 1924 | ||||||
| 40 | 6 | 1922-1923 | ||||||
| 41 | 1 | 1923-1924 | ||||||
| Correspondence | ||||||||
| 41 | 2 | D; 1919-1920 | ||||||
| 41 | 3 | E; 1919-1920 | ||||||
| 41 | 4 | F; 1920-1922 | ||||||
| 41 | 5 | O; 1921-1922 | ||||||
| 41 | 6 | P-Q-R; 1920-1922 | ||||||
| 41 | 7 | S; 1920-1922 | ||||||
| 41 | 8 | T; 1921-1922 | ||||||
| 42 | 1 | U-Z; 1921-1922 | ||||||
| 42 | 2 | Great Commission Prayer League; 1918-1920 | ||||||
| 42 | 3 | History Center - Correspondence; 1916-1968 | ||||||
| Ledgers | ||||||||
| 42 | 4 | Cash Book; 1913-1915 | ||||||
| 42 | 5 | Church Accounts; 1916-1918 | ||||||
| 42 | 6 | Income and Expense; 1917-1946 | ||||||
| 42 | 7 | Missionary Funds; 1921-1924 | ||||||
| 68 | 3 | Northside Tabernacle Account Book, 1871-1874 | ||||||
| 42 | 8 | Pledges, Poor Fund; 1919-1920 | ||||||
| 43 | 1 | Unidentified; 1931-1935 | ||||||
| 43 | 2 | Marriage Register; 1922-1941
| ||||||
| 43 | 3 | Membership Address Lists; n.d. | ||||||
| Membership cards | ||||||||
| 43 | 4 | A; 1899-1920 | ||||||
| 43 | 5 | B; 1890-1924 | ||||||
| 43 | 6 | C; 1893-1922 | ||||||
| 43 | 7 | D; 1906-1924 | ||||||
| 43 | 8 | E; 1894-1924 | ||||||
| 44 | 1 | F; 1895-1920 | ||||||
| 44 | 2 | G; 1894-1924 | ||||||
| 44 | 3 | H; 1894-1924 | ||||||
| 44 | 4 | I; 1915 | ||||||
| 44 | 5 | J; 1892-1925 | ||||||
| 44 | 6 | K; 1901-1925 | ||||||
| 44 | 7 | L; 1889-1924 | ||||||
| 44 | 8 | M; 1894-1921 | ||||||
| 44 | 9 | N; 1903-1920 | ||||||
| 44 | 10 | O; 1910-1924 | ||||||
| 44 | 11 | P; 1895-1919 | ||||||
| 44 | 12 | Q; 1895-1918 | ||||||
| 44 | 13 | R; 1895-1925 | ||||||
| 44 | 14 | S; 1875-1921 | ||||||
| 44 | 15 | T; 1894-1924 | ||||||
| 44 | 16 | U; 1910-1917 | ||||||
| 44 | 17 | V; 1908 | ||||||
| 44 | 18 | W; 1876-1924 | ||||||
| 44 | 19 | Y; 1903-1920 | ||||||
| 44 | 20 | Z; 1891-1915 | ||||||
| Membership Files | ||||||||
| 45 | 1 | A; 1897-1942 | ||||||
| B | ||||||||
| 45 | 2 | 1892-1919 | ||||||
| 45 | 3 | 1920-1942 | ||||||
| C | ||||||||
| 45 | 4 | 1892-1918 | ||||||
| 46 | 1 | 1920-1942 | ||||||
| 46 | 2 | D; 1897-1942 | ||||||
| 46 | 3 | E; 1897-1942 | ||||||
| 46 | 4 | F; 1897-1942 | ||||||
| G | ||||||||
| 46 | 5 | 1892-1919 | ||||||
| 46 | 6 | 1920-1942 | ||||||
| H | ||||||||
| 47 | 1 | 1892-1919 | ||||||
| 47 | 2 | 1920-1942 | ||||||
| 47 | 3 | I; 1897-1922 | ||||||
| 47 | 4 | J; 1891-1942 | ||||||
| 47 | 5 | K; 1897-1942 | ||||||
| L | ||||||||
| 48 | 1 | 1892-1919 | ||||||
| 48 | 2 | 1920-1942 | ||||||
| 48 | 3 | Mc; 1892-1941 | ||||||
| M | ||||||||
| 48 | 4 | 1892-1919 | ||||||
| 48 | 5 | 1920-1942 | ||||||
| 49 | 1 | N; 1897-1942 | ||||||
| O-P-Q | ||||||||
| 49 | 2 | 1897-1919 | ||||||
| 49 | 3 | 1920-1942 | ||||||
| R | ||||||||
| 49 | 4 | 1892-1918 | ||||||
| 49 | 5 | 1920-1942 | ||||||
| S | ||||||||
| 49 | 6 | 1892-1916 | ||||||
| 50 | 1 | 1917-1919 | ||||||
| 50 | 2 | 1920-1942 | ||||||
| 50 | 3 | T; 1897-1941 | ||||||
| 50 | 4 | U-V; 1897-1942 | ||||||
| W | ||||||||
| 50 | 5 | 1895-1919 | ||||||
| 51 | 1 | 1920-1942 | ||||||
| 51 | 2 | X-Y-Z; 1897-1941 | ||||||
| Membership Register | ||||||||
| 51 | 4 | 1864-1887 | ||||||
| 51 | 5 | ca. 1880's | ||||||
| 52 | 1 | ca. 1890's | ||||||
| Minute Books | ||||||||
| 66 | 1 R | 1872-1876 (Good Copies) | ||||||
| 66 | 2 | 1872-1876 (Bad Copies) | ||||||
| 66 | 3 R | 1878-1890 | ||||||
| 66 | 4 R | 1890-1899 | ||||||
| 67 | 1 R | 1900-1906 | ||||||
| 67 | 2 R | 1906-1913 | ||||||
| 68 | 1 R | 1919-1920 | ||||||
| 51 | 3 | Moody Centenary Materials; 1937 | ||||||
| 69 | 2 | Centennial Materials, 1955-1962 | ||||||
| 52 | 2 | Moody Tract League - Reports; 1918-1926 | ||||||
| 52 | 3 | Music Director - Correspondence; 1919-1921 | ||||||
| 70 | 5 | Newspaper Clippings; 1899-1990, n.d. | ||||||
| 52 | 4 | Newspaper Clippings; 1907-1986 | ||||||
| Office Correspondence | ||||||||
| 52 | 5 | H; 1919 | ||||||
| 52 | 6 | H; 1919 | ||||||
| 53 | 1 | H; 1920 | ||||||
| 53 | 2 | I; 1919-1920 | ||||||
| 53 | 3 | M; 1918-1920 | ||||||
| 53 | 4 | N; 1917-1919 | ||||||
| Programs | ||||||||
| 53 | 5 | Anniversaries; 1917-1964 | ||||||
| 53 | 6 | Christmas and Easter Services; 1941-1985 | ||||||
| 53 | 7 | Concerts; 1908-1976 | ||||||
| 53 | 8 | Dedications; 1925-1951 | ||||||
| 69 | 6 | Historical Programs; 1896-1984, n.d. | ||||||
| 53 | 9 | Installations; 1953-1980 | ||||||
| 53 | 10 | Miscellaneous; 1908-1968 | ||||||
| 53 | 11 | Missionary Conference; 1933-1985 | ||||||
| Sunday school | ||||||||
| 53 | 12 | Children's Day; 1907-1954 | ||||||
| 54 | 1 | Christmas and Easter; 1909-1954 | ||||||
| 54 | 2 | Miscellaneous; 1897-1925 | ||||||
| 54 | 3 | New England Dinner; 1913-1984 | ||||||
| 54 | 4 | Rally Day; 1907-1948 | ||||||
| Publications | ||||||||
| 54 | 5 | Big Tabernacle Bulletin, The; 1916 | ||||||
| 69 | 1 | Brochures/Promotional Material; 1955-2003 | ||||||
| 54 | 6 | Calendars; 1908-1979 | ||||||
| 54 | 7 | Christian Clarion Club; 1931-1936 | ||||||
| Church Bulletins | ||||||||
| 54 | 8 | 1911-1947 | ||||||
| 54 | 9 | 1948-1951 | ||||||
| 55 | 1 | 1951-1953 | ||||||
| 55 | 2 | 1954-1956 | ||||||
| 55 | 3 | 1957-1958 | ||||||
| 55 | 4 | 1959 | ||||||
| 55 | 5 | 1960-1961 | ||||||
| 55 | 6 | 1962-1964 | ||||||
| 55 | 7 | 1966, 1973-1975 | ||||||
| 56 | 1 | 1983 | ||||||
| 56 | 2 | Church Manuals; n.d. | ||||||
| 56 | 3 | Constitution; 1885-1936 | ||||||
| 69 | 3 | Constitution/Manual; 1894-1938 | ||||||
| 56 | 4 | Crib Sheets; 1983-1985 | ||||||
| 56 | 5 | Directories; 1890-1984 | ||||||
| 56 | 6 | Fund-raising; 1907-1954 | ||||||
| 56 | 7 | History of the Church; 1903-1940 | ||||||
| 56 | 8 | Miscellaneous; 1910-1981, n.d. | ||||||
| Moody Church News | ||||||||
| 57 | 1 | Receipts; 1936-1938 | ||||||
| 57 | 2 | Reports; 1933-1938 | ||||||
| 65 | 3 | Posters; n.d. | ||||||
| 57 | 3 | Prayer List; 1942 | ||||||
| 57 | 4 | Promotional Cards; 1910-1947, n.d. | ||||||
| Sunday school | ||||||||
| 57 | 5 | Fund-raising; 1909-1950, n.d. | ||||||
| 57 | 6 | Miscellaneous; 1914-1982 | ||||||
| 57 | 7 | Promotional Cards; 1916-1921, n.d. | ||||||
| Scrapbook | ||||||||
| 65 | 5 | Printed forms; ca. 1921 | ||||||
| 57 | 8 | Victory Hour, The; 1978-1983 | ||||||
| 65 | 4 | Purchase Journal; 1917-1920 | ||||||
| 57 | 9 | Report on Constituency; ca. 1966 | ||||||
| 58 | 1 | Reports - Annual; 1967-1984 | ||||||
| 58 | 2 | Scandinavian Alliance Mission; n.d. | ||||||
| 58 | 3 | Scrapbook - Moody-McNeill Meetings; 1892-1894 | ||||||
| 58 | 4 | Songs in the Night; 1980 | ||||||
| 58 | 5 | Stationary; ca. 1918 | ||||||
| Stenographic Notebooks | ||||||||
| 58 | 6 | Mar-May, 1925 | ||||||
| 58 | 7 | May-Aug, 1925 | ||||||
| 59 | 1 | Aug-Oct, 1925 | ||||||
| 59 | 2 | Oct 1925 - January 1926 | ||||||
| 59 | 3 | Jan-Mar, 1926 | ||||||
| 59 | 4 | Mar-Apr, 1926 | ||||||
| 60 | 1 | May-July, 1926 | ||||||
| 60 | 2 | Aug-Nov, 1926 | ||||||
| 60 | 3 | Nov 1926 - February 1927 | ||||||
| 61 | 1 | Feb-Apr, 1927 | ||||||
| 61 | 2 | May-Oct, 1927 | ||||||
| 61 | 3 | Nov 1927 - January 1928 | ||||||
| 62 | 1 | Feb-June, 1928 | ||||||
| 62 | 2 | Sunday, William Ashley "Billy"; | ||||||
| Sunday school | ||||||||
| 62 | 3 | Constitution; n.d. | ||||||
| 62 | 4 | Daily Vacation Bible School; 1937-1946 | ||||||
| Minutes - Executive Committee | ||||||||
| 62 | 5 | 1918-1926 | ||||||
| 62 | 6 | 1926-1934 | ||||||
| 62 | 7 | 1934-1953 | ||||||
| 70 | 4 | Moody Sunday School – Miscellaneous; 1887-1937, n.d. | ||||||
| 62 | 8 | Pledges; 1944-1946 | ||||||
| 63 | 1 | Register of Students; 1893-1895 | ||||||
| 63 | Reports | |||||||
| Annual | ||||||||
| 63 | 2 | 1897-1925 | ||||||
| 63 | 3 | 1928-1939 | ||||||
| 63 | 4 | 1940-1949 | ||||||
| 63 | 5 | 1950-1952 | ||||||
| 64 | 1 | Nominating Committee; 1926-1943 | ||||||
| 64 | 2 | Monthly; 1923-1926 | ||||||
| 64 | 3 | Statistics; 1956-1967 | ||||||
| 64 | 4 | Young Married People's Class; 1910-1917 | ||||||
| 64 | 5 | Testimonials; 1965, n.d. | ||||||
| 64 | 6 | Thiessen, Carol - Correspondence; 1973 | ||||||
| 64 | 7 | Tracts; 1917, n.d. | ||||||
| 64 | 8 | Treasurer Reports; 1897-1941 | ||||||
| 64 | 9 | Trustees Reports; 1910-1974 | ||||||
| 64 | 10 | Usher Band; 1916-1960 | ||||||
| 68 | 2 | Visitor's Register; 1898-1987 | ||||||
| 64 | 11 | Youth Camp; 1969 | ||||||
| 69 | 4 | Correspondence – Miscellaneous; 1905-1939, n.d. | ||||||
| 69 | 7 | Historical Recounts; 1876-1995, n.d. | ||||||
| 70 | 1 | Moody Church Miscellaneous 1; [c. 1887]-1958, n.d. | ||||||
| 70 | 2 | Moody Church Miscellaneous 2; 1963-2007, n.d. | ||||||
| 70 | 3 | Moody Church Miscellaneous 3; n.d. | ||||||
| 70 | 6 | Tickets – Moody Church Events; 1873-1910, n.d. | ||||||