2 April 1887 A.D. Mordecai Ham Born—Hot Southern Baptist Preacher & Revivalist
2 April 1887 A.D. Mordecai Ham Born—Hot Southern Baptist Preacher & Revivalist Graves, Dan. “Modecai Ham, Outspoken Evangelist.” Christianity.com. May 2007. http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1801-1900/mordecai-ham-outspoken-evangelist-11630588.html . Accessed 1 Apr 2015. Imagine the honor of leading a notable evangelist like Billy Graham to Christ. Mordecai Ham did just that. However, he was in a position to do so only after he had wrestled with his own preferences and yielded to God. Born on this day, April 2, 1877, in Allen County, Kentucky, he resisted God's call to become an evangelist because he wanted to be a salesman. His grandfather and father, both preachers, had lived in poverty and Ham did not want that. But eventually the Lord prevailed. Six months after Ham married Bessie Simmons, he quit his business to enter the ministry as a fundamentalist Baptist. Early in his ministry, he claimed to have had an encounter with the Holy...