Chapel is designed to be a meeting on your part with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords himself.

Over these years, there has been the same basic objective that chapel is to be a time of worship, not a lecture, not an entertainment, but a time of meeting the king.

Those were some of the closing words from a man's final minutes on Earth.

The preacher is V. Raymond Edmon.

He's 67 years old.

It's a Friday morning chapel at Wheaton College on September 22nd, 1967, five and a half decades ago.

His sermon is titled, In the Presence of the King.

Edmund preached for about 11 minutes, paused, collapsed, and died, and entered into the presence of the King of Kings.

Stunning event.

In chapel that morning along with 2,000 other Wheaton students was 21 year old John Piper.

And Pastor John, you rarely ever mentioned this event once late in an article that you wrote in

1995, but nowhere in a book were a sermon and never here on E.B.J. either.

So take us back to Wheaton in 1967. Who was V. Raymond Edmond?

What do you remember about that fateful Friday morning?

What impact did that chapel have on your future ministry?

And as you listen to the audio recording over 55 years later, what strikes you?

The room we were meeting in when Prexy, as those who knew him well, called him V Raymond Edmon.

The room we were meeting in was called Edmon Chapel, named after Dr. Edmon in 1960 when it was built.

So the building in which he died bore his name already.

Oh wow.

It's a large concert like venue, beautifully white and blue with huge

chandeliers, holds about 2,400 people with a main floor where the students sat during chapel and in a balcony behind.

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