The Impact of a Life
Edward Kimball was a Sunday School Teacher who went to visit one of his students. He had the opportunity to lead that young man to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. That young man was Dwight L. Moody.
Dwight L. Moody was holding a meeting in the late 1870′s at Lake Forest College. After the service, Mr. Moody counseled a student who was struggling with the assurance of his salvation. That young man later became a friend and co-worker of Dwight L. Moody. That man was J. Wilbur Chapman.
Mr. Chapman later hired a young man to assist him in his ministry. That man had come to know Christ in Chicago at the Pacific Garden Mission. The man who worked for a brief time with Mr. Chapman was an ex ball player named Billy Sunday.
Billy Sunday held an Evangelistic Campaign in Charlotte North Carolina in 1924. Out of those meeting came an evangelistic club (Billy Sunday Layman Evangelistic Club) that was later renamed the Charlotte Businessman’s club. This group was instrumental in inviting a preacher named Mordecai Ham to hold evangelistic meetings in 1934.
In 1934, during the revival meeting that was held in Charlotte, North Caroline, a young man came forward and accepted Christ as his personal Savior. Many of you know that young man – his name is Billy Graham.
All because a Sunday School teacher named Edward Kimball – called on a young man in his Sunday school class.
