In late spring of 1934, a group of concerned Christians in Charlotte, N.C., worried about the spiritual condition of their city, organized a day of prayer and fasting. This was the fourth such revival, held on a local family farm south of town. While leading the group in prayer, a man named Vernon Patterson asked God to “raise someone up from Charlotte to preach the gospel around the world.”
That prayer would be answered, though not immediately. At a cattle barn on the same dairy farm, a hired hand pitching hay asked the farmer's son, “Who are those men in the woods over there?” The teenager, whose own mind was on baseball, replied: “I guess they're some fanatics that talked Dad into letting him use the place.”
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