Wartime experience introduced Moody and Sankey to the possibilities of working across denominational lines. After the war, the drive to cooperate was especially powerful among urban revivalists and preachers, who shared common religious sensibilities (including revivalism and gospel music), a common experience of war, and a common desire to build new organizations that bypassed old bureaucratic structures and divisions for the sake of global evangelization. By 1870, Moody and Sankey were at the head of a sprawling movement of interdenominational evangelicalism that included dozens of
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