He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant
woman. He grew up in still another village where he worked in a
carpenter shop until he was thirty. Then for three years he was an
itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office.
He never had a family or owned a house. He didn't go to college. He
never visited a big city. He never traveled more than two hundred
miles from the place he was born. He did none of these
things that one usually associated with greatness. He had
no credentials but himself.
READ MORE.
