The Shoe Clerk from Northfield
In 1855, Edward Kimball walked into a Boston shoe store with a single purpose: to speak to a teenage stock boy about Jesus. The young...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on John 1:43-51.
In 1855, Edward Kimball walked into a Boston shoe store with a single purpose: to speak to a teenage stock boy about Jesus. The young man was Dwight L. Moody — rough-mannered, barely literate, fresh off a farm in Northfield, Massachusetts. He had come to Boston only because his uncle offered him work. Nobody in that city expected much from him.…
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