The Sunday School Teacher Who Almost Turned Back
On a spring day in 1855, Edward Kimball walked the streets of Boston with a single purpose — to find a young shoe clerk named...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Luke 15:3-7.
On a spring day in 1855, Edward Kimball walked the streets of Boston with a single purpose — to find a young shoe clerk named Dwight Moody. Kimball was a Sunday school teacher, and Moody had been attending his class, restless and rough-edged, a seventeen-year-old farm boy who barely knew the scriptures. But something about the young man tugged at Kimball's heart.…
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