This week in Christian history: Dwight Moody marries, Greek monk martyred, Jerry Falwell Jr. resigns

Dwight Moody gets married – Aug. 28, 1862

This week marks the anniversary of when famed 19th century evangelist and founder of the Moody Bible Institute, Dwight L. Moody, married Emma Revell.

A native of London, England, whose parents had immigrated to the United States when she was a child, Revell married Moody when she was 19 and he was 25. They would have three children.

“No wife could mean more to her husband than she did. She was wholeheartedly with him in his Christian convictions and in his various soul-winning and welfare activities,” wrote Arthur Percy Fitt in a 1936 book.

“She taught a Bible class in the local church, where her knowledge and wide experience made themselves felt in a quiet way. She traveled with Mr. Moody unless good reasons prevented, and helped with his heavy correspondence. He always relied on her judgment, and valued her for her full worth.”