Dwight Lyman Moody, also known as D. L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher associated with Keswickianism who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts (now Northfield Mount Hermon School), Moody Bible Institute, and Moody Publishers. One of his most famous comments was, ""Faith makes all things possible; love makes all things easy."" Moody gave up his wealthy boot and shoe business to devote his life to revivalism, initially with Union troops through the YMCA in the United States Christian Commission during the Civil War. He established one of the nation's biggest evangelical centers in Chicago, which is still in operation. He toured the country and the British Isles with singer Ira Sankey, attracting enormous crowds with his lively speaking style. Dwight Moody was born as the seventh child in a large family in Northfield, Massachusetts. Edwin J. Moody (1800-1841), his father, was a modest farmer and stonemason. Betsey Moody (née Holton; 1805-1896) was his mother. Before Dwight, they had five sons and a girl. Dwight's father died when he was four years old; one month later, he had fraternal twins, a boy and a girl.