The Stammering Sunday School Teacher Who Changed the World

In April of 1855, a Boston Sunday school teacher named Edward Kimball paced the sidewalk outside a shoe store on Court Street, nearly losing his nerve. He had no theological degree. He possessed no gift for eloquent speech. By his own admission, he stumbled over his words so badly that afternoon that he could barely string a sentence together. But he walked inside anyway and found a seventeen-year-old stock boy named Dwight wrapping shoes in the back room.…