Dwight L. Moody made a mistake on October 8, 1871. He preached to his largest audience in the city of Chicago. The text had been, "What Will You Do Then with Jesus Who Is Called the Christ?" He said something he had never said before and, frankly, never said again. He was very fatigued and because of that he said to the audience after he presented the gospel, "Now I give you a week to think that over. And when we come together again, you will have opportunity to respond."
Then Ira Sankey came and began to sing. Even before he finished the song, you could hear the blare of the siren in the streets of Chicago as that great fire broke out and left 100,000 homeless. Hundreds of people died in that fire. And Dwight L. Moody rose to the occasion a few months later and he said, "I would give my right arm before I would ever give an audience another week to think over the message of the gospel. Some who heard that night died in the fire."
Clarence Macartney

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