Emphasis Preaching Journal

In Porbandar, India, a small, remote, seaside town in the Kathiawar Peninsula, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born. Biographer Louis Fischer called Gandhi a blundering boy whose "origin was ordinary, his childhood normal, his student days uneventful, and his early professional career a failure.* Yet, throughout the course of his life, this small-statured brown man clad in loincloth toppled a government, inspired a nation, and became one of the world's greatest leaders without ever holding public office or wielding military might.