MORDECAI HAM
1878 - 1959
Mordecai Ham came from eight
generations of Baptist preachers. He traced
his ancestry to Roger Williams.
Mordecai was converted under
Billy Sunday's Preaching Ministry. In 1901,
Ham entered into the Baptist ministry. From
the very beginning there was no middle ground
in his preaching. He preached against vice
and corruption; he rebuked "Modernist
preachers". He exposed sin, warned of
the judgment to come, implanted conviction,
and called a wayward people back to the Bible
they had forsaken. He hunted the lowest sinners
in a community and would pray and witness
to them until they trusted Christ as their
personal Saviour.
The author of the amendment
for Prohibition stated that Mordecai Ham and
Billy Sunday had nearly put saloons out of
business due to their hard preaching against
the liquor crowd.
Ham considered himself a
prophet/revivalist evangelist. He was a full-time
evangelist from 1902 to 1927. He took two
years off from evangelism to pastor the First
Baptist Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. But,
because his heart was still in full-time evangelism,
he entered the field again in 1929 and stayed
in it until shortly before his death.
Over 1,000,000 people were
converted under his ministry and over 300,000
joined Baptist churches in the south. Billy
Graham is his most famous convert.
His nephew, Edward Ham, summed
up Mordecai Ham's ministry: "God raised
up Evangelist Ham to do more than hold meetings
in the great cities of the South. He ordained
him a prophet to do more than lead great campaigns
against liquor during the pre-Prohibition
days. God raised him up to remind Christian
America of the main spiritual issue that has
been in existence since man's beginning on
this earth; Christ versus the anti-Christ."
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