Small Beginning Great Ending
A small village in 1881 Indiana held a revival service one weekend. The visiting preacher gave an “altar call,” numerous times, urging people to come forward and give their lives to Christ. Over the entire weekend, only a thirteen -year-old boy knelt at the altar seeking to follow God. Church members deemed the meetings a failure, because only one boy went forward. But how little they realized what the conversion of that lad of thirteen would mean to thousands of heathen. How little did any in the community dream that he would someday become a missionary and the founder of one of the greatest evangelizing force on earth. Charles Cowman was born on March 13, 1868, in Toulon, Illinois, to David and Mary Cowman. At age 15, he was offered and accepted a summer job as a telegraph operator at a local railway station. Excelling at this new job, he chose not to return to school the following fall and continued with his new profession. Cowman practiced hard, and became known as ...