The Impact of One Child

Now that Phil has moved, I can start catching up with a backlog of tasks and papers. People keep saying to me, "You must be really busy now." Not really more than before. You have to understand, Phil is the one who gave me the most work to do! Anyhow, here a piece from Cora that she found from the book, Whose Child is This?, by Bill Wilson.

Edward Kimball, a shoe clerk and a Sunday school teacher in Chicago, loved boys. He spent hours of his free time visiting the young street urchins in Chicago's inner city, trying to win them for Christ. Through him, a young boy named D. L. Moody got saved in 1858. Moody grew up to be a preacher.

In 1879 Moody won to the Lord a young mn by the name of F. B. Meyer, who also grew up to be a preacher. An avid enthusiast of personal visitation, Meyer won a young man by the name of J. W. Chapman to Christ. Chapman, in turn, grew up to be a preacher and brought the message of Christ to a baseball player named Billy Sunday. As an athlete/evangelist, Sunday held a revival in Charlotte, N. C. that was so successful that another evangelist by the name of Mordecai Hamm was invited to Charlotte to preach. It was while Hamm was preaching that a teenager named Billy Graham gave his life to Jesus.

It all started with the winning of a child to Christ.