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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 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...

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...

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...