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Wikipedia: Isabella Lilias Trotter (14 July 1853 – 27 August 1928) was a British artist and a Protestant missionary to Algeria…. Ruskin told Trotter that if she would devote herself to her art “she would be the greatest living painter and do things that would be Immortal.”[7] Although Trotter was drawn to the prospect of a life in art, in May 1879, she decided that she Read more...

Frank Jenner spoke with over 100,000 people on George Street in Sydney, asking them: “If you died within 24 hours, where would you be in eternity? Heaven or hell?” Ray Comfort would often tell the story of the faithfulness in evangelism of Frank Jenner Featured Image Credit: Royal Australian Navy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Read more...

From Wikipedia: John Gibson Paton (24 May 1824 – 28 January 1907), born in Scotland, was a Protestant missionary to the New Hebrides Islands of the South Pacific. He brought to the natives of the New Hebrides education and Christianity. He developed small industries for them, such as hat making. He advocated strongly against a form of slavery, which was called “Blackbirding“, that involved kidnapping the Read more...

Learn more at https://acl.asn.au/resources/eternity/ From Facebook: Arthur Stace, a homeless alcoholic lived in the Streets of Sydney, Australia. After a conversion to Christianity, he quit drinking, and spent the rest of his life writing the word “Eternity” all over the city in yellow chalk. He is said to have written it over five hundred thousand times. He is remembered in Read more...

“There were suggestions that the city should erect a plaque to his memory. One idea was that there should be a statue in Railway Square depicting Stace kneeling, chalk in hand. In 1968 the Sydney City Council decided to perpetuate Stace’s one-word sermon by putting down permanent plaques in “numerous” locations throughout the city. But a team of City Commissioners Read more...

Christian Hall of Fame: William Tyndale was ordained as a priest in 1521, having studied Greek diligently at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, specifically the Textus Receptus. He conferred with Luther in Germany and stayed on the continent translating the Bible from Greek into English and smuggling New Testaments into England. He was betrayed by a friend and was arrested in Read more...

The collection of the William Tyndale museum in Vilvoorde started with a gift from a private collector to the William Tyndale Church in 1982 (now named William Tyndale-Silo Church). The fledgling museum was located in the basement of the church building in the Lange Molensstraat, not far from the place where Tyndale was executed. The museum opened in October 1986, Read more...

Wikipedia: The house, of late Gothic or early Renaissance style, was built between 1460 and 1515 under the tutelage of Peter Wijchmans [fr], canon and schoolmaster of the chapter of Anderlecht, and a friend of Erasmus. Erasmus stayed in the house for five months from May to October 1521, working on his translation of his Novum Testamentum from Greek into Latin.[2] Read more...

Wikipedia:   Jonathan Goforth (Chinese: 顧約拿單, February 10, 1859 – October 8, 1936) was a Canadian Presbyterian missionary to China with the Canadian Presbyterian Mission, with his wife, Rosalind (Bell-Smith) Goforth. Jonathan Goforth became the foremost missionary revivalist in early 20th-century China and helped to establish revivalism as a major element in Protestant China missions. Goforth grew up on an Oxford County, Ontario, farm, the seventh of eleven children. As a young man Read more...

Joseph Scriven (1819-1886) lived a life of sorrows. His fiancé died the night before they were to be married. Engaged again, this fiancé also tragically perished. He wrote a poem that he sent to his mother, that was set to music and published, as What a Friend We Have in Jesus. A memorial to him is found in his native Read more...

Port Hope History: It became Joseph’s usual practice to spend the winter months in Bewdley and the summers in Port Hope, where he boarded for 22 years with Margaret, nee Brumfitt, the widow of Patrick Gibson, a milkman, in her house on Thomas Street at the corner of Merritt Street, which later became a part of Strachan Street. Mrs Gibson Read more...

From 1860 to 1930, the Queen’s Royal Hotel was located on the shores of the Niagara River overlooking Lake Ontario. One of the top hotels of the Gilded Age, from 1883 to 1897 it became the permanent home of the Believers’ Meeting for Bible Study, later called the Niagara Bible Conference. This prototype of the Bible Conference movement, began in Read more...

Edith Margaret Clarkson, usually known as Margaret Clarkson, was a Canadian best known for her hymn, “So Send I You.” “Billy Graham has called [it] ‘the finest hymn of our generation.'” (Mennonite Weekly Review). “Later in life, she rejected it as ‘spiritually immature,’ and begged churches to replace it with some newly-written lines.” (Ottawa Citizen). The original version opens: So Read more...

From  The History and Heritage of Fundamentalism and Fundamental Baptists, Thomas Todhunter Shields (1873-1955) was born in England and grew up in Canada, the son of a pastor. He was converted in 1891 at age 18 and preached his first sermon three years later. He had no formal college or seminary education. He pastored four Baptist churches between 1894 and Read more...

Christian Hall of Fame: In 1927, Dr. Shields organized the Toronto Baptist Seminary. He also was the author of a number of Christian books. Because he was the leading exponent of fundamental Christianity in Canada, he became known as the “Spurgeon of Canada.” Wikipedia Thomas Todhunter Shields (1 November 1873 in Bristol, Gloucester, England – 4 April 1955 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was a leader Read more...

From the Wheaton Vault From Wikipedia: Tsingtao (today called Qingdao), a city on the east coast of China, was Betty Stam’s childhood home; she (the oldest of five children) grew up there, where Betty’s father, Charles Scott, was a missionary.[3] In 1926, Betty returned to the United States to attend college. While a student at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago she met John Stam, who was Read more...

Watch Douglas Whitley in character as Hudson Taylor: Exact location unknown   From China Christian Daily: On June 5, 2018, the Hudson Taylor Memorial Building was opened in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, where the great missionary is buried. In the past one year and some, Christians have visited the site on a nearly daily basis. They have come to the place of Read more...

The subject of Chariots of Fire, returned to China as a missionary after the Olympics. During World War II he was kept in a Japanese Internment Camp known as Weixian Internment Camp.   Featured Image Credit: Alexandquan, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons   Other photos available from Nicholas Kitto Photos from 1991   http://www.weihsien-paintings.org/NormanCliff/people/individuals/Eric01/txt_monument.htm   https://churchleaders.com/daily-buzz/261525-chinas-hero-eric-liddell-honored-statue.html   Read more...

From Wikipedia: Minyuan Stadium, in Tianjin, People’s Republic of China, was used mostly for football matches and hosted the home matches of Tianjin Teda F.C. until the TEDA Football Stadium opened in 2004. The stadium held 18,000 spectators. Eric Liddell helped build the stadium when he was a missionary in Tianjin in 1926, modelling it on Stamford Bridge of London, which was Liddell’s favourite athletics venue. From TripAdvisor: “Free – Sports Museum shows Read more...

From Vance Christie: Carl Becker (1894-1990) was born and raised in Manheim, Pennsylvania. After receiving his medical training at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, he successfully practiced medicine in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, for seven years. In 1929 Becker and his wife, Marie, left Boyertown to go to the Belgian Congo (modern Democratic Republic of the Congo) under the Africa Inland Mission. Read more...