The second way Moody fused new premillennialism to his revival messages was by merging premillennialism and Higher Life teachings to unite Northern and Southern whites, sacralizing the reunited republic in the language of grace, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Moody’s goal was to turn the country’s Christians away from the past and the world, and toward the future and heaven. In practical terms, Moody encouraged Americans to abandon political analyses of the country, which in the mid-1870s meant dropping the polarizing issues of blame for the war and Black civil rights.
