"While Dwight Lyman Moody was attending a convention in Indianapolis on mass evangelism, he asked his song leader Ira Sankey to meet him at six o'clock one evening at a certain street corner. When Sankey arrived, Mr. Moody asked him to stand on a box and sing.

"Once a crowd had gathered, Moody spoke briefly and then invited the people to follow him to the nearby convention hall. Soon the auditorium was filled with spiritually hungry people, and the great evangelist preached the gospel to them.

"Then the convention delegates began to arrive. Moody stopped preaching and said, 'Now we must close, as the brethren of the convention wish to come and discuss the topic: How to reach the masses.'"