The African Boy Who Taught the Professors to Pray
In 1891, a young Liberian man named Samuel Morris arrived at Taylor University in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He had no formal education. He owned no...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Corinthians 2:1-16.
In 1891, a young Liberian man named Samuel Morris arrived at Taylor University in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He had no formal education. He owned no shoes. He spoke broken English and carried nothing but an unshakable certainty that the Holy Spirit had sent him to America to learn more about God. The faculty did not know what to make of him.…
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