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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...

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...

Thomas Todhunter Shields  “He was called a ‘man of special gifts, a mountain peak without peer as preacher, teacher, writer — a veritable genius, the Canadian Spurgeon, a battling Baptist, and a devoted pastor.’” (David Cloud)   Early Life and Formation Thomas Todhunter Shields was born on November 1, 1873, in Bristol, England, into a family whose father was an Read more...