FAITHFUL EDWARD KIMBALL

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If Sunday School teacher EDWARD KIMBALL had not been faithful in 1856, and shared his faith with a Boston shoe clerk, the world would be a very different place.

That shoe salesman was DWIGHT L MOODY. He believed he was a sinner, and that Jesus died on the cross for HIS sin. God then called him into evangelism, and he became arguably the greatest evangelist outside Holy Scripture. He travelled the world with the Good News.

Moody spent some time in the British Isles and, in 1879, one young Baptist pastor who was impressed with Moody was called F B MEYER. Meyer was encouraged to reach out more to the lost, and he became one of England's most sought-after preachers. He published many books, which are still being used today to encourage faith in Jesus.

Meyer spoke regularly in the USA. On one of his evangelistic tours there, a young student named WILBUR CHAPMAN professed faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Chapman, believing the importance of challenging people about faith in Jesus, for years to come, toured the USA with the message that Jesus came into the world to save sinners.

To help him spread the Good News, Chapman asked a young convert named BILLY SUNDAY to help him with his evangelistic efforts. Billy Sunday was an ex-baseball player, and was a very popular evangelist, greatly used of God for the salvation of lost souls.

In 1924 Billy Sunday held an evangelistic campaign in Charlotte, North Carolina. After the meeting a number of men met together regularly to pray for conversions. Ten years later they held a prayer meeting on the property of Frank Graham. They were praying about a forthcoming evangelistic campaign. One of the men prayed that out of their own area the Lord would raise up one who would preach the gospel faithfully. During that campaign BILLY GRAHAM was saved.

Because of what Edward Kimball did for the Lord, countless souls have found the Lord Jesus Christ as their saviour. The number of people who have been converted through the chain of events started with Edward Kimball is incalculable. And we must remember that people are still being converted through that chain of events, which continues today. ELIZABETH FULCHER was converted at a Billy Graham campaign in Manchester in 1961. Elizabeth is part of that chain. Elizabeth is obediently reaching out with the Good News, and we'll find out in glory what the Lord has done with that.

The question must be asked: "Have I ever shared my faith with a lost soul?"