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376 finally in Douro, near Peterborough. During the rebellion of 1837 Mr. Moodie served at Toronto and subsequently as captain in the Queen's own regi- ment on the Niagara frontier, and in the autumn of 1838 he was appointed to command the militia along the shores of Lake Ontario and the Bay of Quinte. In November, 1839, he was appointed by Sir George Arthur sheriff of the district of Victoria (now the county of Hastings), but he resigned in 1863. He is the author of " Ten Years in South Africa " (2 vols., London, 1855) ; " Scenes and Ad- ventures as a Soldier and a Settler" (Montreal, 1866) ; and of miscellaneous sketches. — His wife, Susanna. Canadian author, b. in Reydon Hall, Suffolk, England, 6 Dec, 1803; d. in 'Toronto, 8 April, 1885, was the sixth daughter of Thomas Strickland, and sister of Agnes Strickland, Mrs. Catherine Parr Traill, Elizabeth and Jane Strick- land, all of whom ai'e authors. Su- sanna began writ- ing when she was sixteen years old. Accompa- nying Mr. Moodie to Canada, she suffered all the hardships and dis- comforts incident to frontier life in her new home. In 1839 she removed with Mr. Moodie to Belleville, after which she resided during the rest of her life in Toronto. She wrote " Enthusiasm and other Poems" (London, 1829); "Roughing it in the Bush, or Life in Canada" (2 vols., 1852); " Life in the Clearings versus the Bush " (1853) ; " Mark Hurdlestone, the Gold Worshipper " (2 vols., 1853); "Matrimonial Speculations" (1854); " Flora Lindsay " (1854) ; and " The IMonctons " (2 vols., 1856). Some of her books have been re- published in the United States,

MOODY, Dwight Lyman, evangelist, b. in Northfield, Franklin co., Mass., 5 Feb., 1837; d. there, 22 Dec, 1899. He received a limited educa- tion, and worked on a farm till he was seventeen, wlien he became a clerk in a shoe-store in Boston. He united with a Congregational church soon afterward, and in 1856 went to Chicago, where he engaged with enthusiasm in missionary work among the poor, and in less than a year estab- lished a Sunday-school with more than 1,000 pupils. During the civil war he was employed by the Christian commission, and subsequently by the Young men's Christian association of Chicago, as a lay missionary. A chui'ch was built for his con- verts and he became its unordained pastor. In the fire of 1871 the church and Mr. Moody's house and furniture were destroyed, but a new and much larger church has been since erected. In 1873, ac- companied by Ira D. Sankey, he visited Europe and instituted a series of weekly day religious services in England, Scotland, and Ireland, which resulted in great religious awakenings in the principal cities in these countries. The evangelists returned to the United States in 1875 and organized similar meetings in various parts of the country. In 1883 they again visited Great Britain, and since that time have been engaged in evangelistic work there and in their own country. Mr. Moody has pub- lished " The Second Coming of Christ " (Chicago, j ) ; " The Way and the Word " (1877) ; " Se- cret Power, or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work " (1881) ; " The Way to God, and how to find It " (1884). Of his collected sermons there have been published " Glad Tidings " (New York, 1876); "Great Joy" (1877); " To all Peo- ple" (1877); "Best Thoughts and Discourses," with a sketch of his life and that of Mr. Sankey (1876) ; and " Arrows and Anecdotes," with a sketch of his life (1877).

MOODY, Oranville, soldier, b. in Portland, Me., 2 Jan., 1812 ; d. near Jefferson, Iowa, 4 June, 1887. His ancestor, William Moody, a native of Scotland, settled in the Plymouth colony in 1682, and his father, William, was graduated" at Dart- mouth in 1798, and became principal in 1816 of the first female seminary established in Baltimore, Md. When four years of age Granville removed with his parents to Baltimore, and was educated there. In 1831 he became a clerk in his brother's store at Norwich, Ohio, and on 15 June, 1833, he was licensed as a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church. He was received into the Ohio conference, and, after holding various pastorates in that state, was appointed in 1860 to Morris chapel (now St. Paul's church), Cincinnati. In 1861 he was invited to take command of the 74th Ohio regiment, and asked the advice of his colleagues in the church as to the propriety of resigning his pastorate to enter the military service. They ap- proved of his acceptance, and he served till 16 May, 1863, when illness forced him to resign. By his bravery at the battle of Stone River he won the title of " the fighting parson." He was struck four times with bullets, and his horse was shot, but he refused to leave the field. On the recommenda- tion of the secretary of war, on 13 March, 1865, Col. Moody was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers " for distinguished services at the battle of Stone River." After his return from the army he resumed his place in the itinerant ministry, and served with acceptance in various localities till 1882, when, on account of failing health, he took a supernumerary relation. Removing to his farm near Jefferson, Ohio, he resided there till his death, which was caused by an accident while he was on his way to preach a memorial sermon before a part of the Grand army of tlie republic at Jefferson.

MOODY, James, soldier, b. in New Jersey in 1744; d. in Sissibon, Nova Scotia, 3 April, 1809. He was a farmer in New Jersey at the beginning of the Revolutionary war, but, being molested by the Whigs, fled, and, accompanied by seventy-three of his neighbors in April. 1777, joined the British army at Bergen. He afterward, marched seventy miles with one hundred men to attack his former neighbors, but was met and beaten by the patriots, and all his command was captured but himself and eight others. In June. 1779, he captured several Continental officers, and destroyed some powder and arms. In the same year he was sent to lurk in the neighborhood of Gen. Washington's troops, watched the movements of Gen. John Sullivan, and was also a spy upon Gen. Horatio Gates when he was moving "to the south. In May, 1780, he formed the design of capturing Gov. William Livingston, and, failing in the attempt, tried without success to blow up the magazine at Suckasunna. Soon afterward he captured eighteen officers of militia and committee-men. He was subsequently arrested, but escaped, and in March, 1781, was employed by Oliver De Lancey, the younger, to intercept Washington's despatches, which he succeeded in doing. Late in the same year he attempted to seize the most important