Philip Paul Bliss (1838-1876 Born in a log cabin in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, he joined a Baptist Church at the age of twelve. He studied music at the Normal Academy of Music in New York. In 1864 Bliss sold his first song and by 1865 he had moved to Chicago to...

Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899) D. L. Moody was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, into a very poor family. At seventeen, he went to Boston to work in his uncle’s shoe store; and it was in Boston that Edward Kimball led him to Christ. Moody arrived in Chicago in 1856; he prospered...