The Faithful Teacher

On April 21, 1855, a Sunday school teacher in Boston named Edward Kimball went to a shoe store to see a young man who had been attending his class. Kimball would later write about the young man, "I have seen few persons whose minds were spiritually darker than was his when he came into my class." Kimball went in and led his young student to Christ.

It took the young man, Dwight L. Moody, some time to overcome his lack of education and grow in his faith. But he was a natural-born salesman and soon attracted a group of street urchins and started his own Bible class. He moved to Chicago where his ministry grew into a church until it was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Moody took to the road as an evangelist in England and returned to the United States as a celebrity. His new-found status allowed him to increase his ministry of evangelism in the United States. He also built educational schools for boys and girls, as well as the Moody Bible Institute.

A Sunday school teacher obeyed the leading of the Spirit and led a man to Christ who then led thousands more to the Savior.