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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...
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Watch Douglas Whitley as E.M. Bounds: From Wikipedia: Edward McKendree Bounds (August 15, 1835 – August 24, 1913) prominently known as E.M. Bounds, was an American author, attorney, and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South clergy. He is known for writing 11 books, nine of which focused on the subject of prayer. Only two of Bounds’ books were published before he died. After his death, Rev. Claudius (Claude) Read more...
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Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899) was born in Northfield, Massachusetts, the seventh of nine children. The death of his father at age four hurt the family financially, and Moody was sent out to work. At 17 he worked for his uncle in his shoe store in Boston (turn back a few pages to hear how Edward Kimball paid him a visit Read more...
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From Wikipedia: Murray pastored churches in Bloemfontein, Worcester, Cape Town and Wellington, all in South Africa. He was a champion of the South African Revival of 1860. In 1889, he was one of the founders of the South African General Mission (SAGM), along with Martha Osborn and Spencer Walton. After Martha Osborn married George Howe, they formed the South East Africa General Mission (SEAGM) in Read more...
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Photo by Chris Smith, FindAGrave.com PLOT Eternity – Section From GFA Missions: On completion of his assignment at the leprosarium, Dr. and Mrs. Dreisbach returned to the U.S., made preparation to proceed on to Africa, and in 1948 began full-time missionary working in Nigeria, West Africa. In their early years in Africa, Dr. Dreisbach was superintendent of three Read more...
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At 26, Herbert G. Tovey wrote the song “Give Me a Passion for Souls” – out of 1,500 songs published under his Sacred Music Foundation, this was the most popular. 1 Give me a passion for souls, dear Lord, A passion to save the lost; O that Thy love were by all adored, And welcomed at any cost. Refrain: Read more...
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From Wikipedia: John Eliot (c. 1604—21 May 1690) was a Puritan missionary to the American Indians who some called “the apostle to the Indians”[1][2][3] and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645. Produced the first Bible published in America Read more...
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Thomas Hooker (see his statue nearby) would continue to minister until his death in 1647. He was buried in the “Ancient Burying Ground” near the original site of the church. In 1739, First Church would move to its current spot, adjacent the Ancient Burying Ground, where it is now known as Center Church. The marker by his grave reads: Thomas Read more...
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From Wikipedia: Initially Carmichael traveled to Japan for fifteen months, but fell ill and returned home.[3] After a brief period of service in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), she went to Bangalore, India for her health and found her lifelong vocation. She was commissioned by the Church of England Zenana Mission. Carmichael’s most notable work was with girls and young women, some of whom were Read more...
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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...
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From Wikipedia Carrie Amelia Nation (forename sometimes spelled Carry;[1] November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911) was an American activist who was a radical member of the temperance movement, which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition. She is noted for attacking alcohol-serving establishments (most often taverns) with a hatchet. Nation was also concerned about tight clothing for women; she refused to wear a corset and urged women not Read more...
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Join Randy as we go on location to Princeton Cemetery, just outside of Princeton University, to the grave of America’s founding pastors. We’ll see the tomb of Aaron Burr, the graves of Jonathan Edwards (Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God), Samuel Davies (see Polegreen), and John Witherspoon. From Christian Hall of Fame: American theologian and philosopher, Jonathan Read more...
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From Wikipedia In 1789 Carey, became the full-time pastor of Harvey Lane Baptist Church in Leicester. Three years later, in 1792, he published his groundbreaking missionary manifesto, An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens. Carey later preached a pro-missionary sermon (the so-called Deathless Sermon), using Isaiah 54:2–3 as his text, in which he repeatedly used the Read more...
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From Wikipedia On one of the two most prominent mounds of Nineveh‘s ruins, rose the Mosque of the prophet Jonah, the son of Amittai. When built, the mosque replaced an Assyrian Church believed to be the burial place of Jonah and called Jonah’s Tomb. Also, Assyrian King Esarhaddon (681–669 BC) previously built a palace on the site. Photo Roland Unger / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) HTML Read more...
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From Wikipedia: Mary Mitchell Slessor (2 December 1848 – 13 January 1915) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary to Nigeria. Once in Nigeria, Slessor learned Efik, one of the numerous local languages, then began teaching. Because of her understanding of the native language and her bold personality Slessor gained the trust and acceptance of the locals and was able to spread Christianity while promoting women’s rights and protecting Read more...
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Actual grave location unknown – check findagrave and cemetery map Going forth with weeping, sowing for the Master, Though the loss sustained our spirit often grieves; When our weeping’s over, He will bid us welcome, We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves. Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the sheaves, We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves, Read more...
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Sacred to the memory of Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg who was born on the 1st day of January, 1750 and departed this life on the 4th day of June, 1801 Aged 51 years, 5 months and 5 days —————————— Lutheran Pastor in Colonial America Continental Congress 1779-80, Pennsylvania Assembly 1781-84 United States Congress 1789-1797 First Speaker – House of Representatives Read more...
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A Presbyterian pastor with Presbyterian pastor ancestors, he was a pastor in St. Louis for 32 years. A friend of D.L. Moody and a mentor to Charles Scofield, Brookes led the premillenial dispensational movement thru the Niagara Bible Conferences. The Brookes Bible Institute nearby is named in his honor. The Bellefontaine Cemetery is one of the few to have Read more...
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Heard daily across America and around the world, J. Vernon McGee’s Thru The Bible radio broadcasts are still aired and listened to by many. Former pastor of Church of the Open Door, Los Angeles, chairman of the Bible department at BIOLA, and posthumously inducted into the NRB Hall of Fame. Exact Grave site not marked – but is Radiant Read more...
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Born in Kellyville, Texas, Stuart Hamblen made his way to Hollywood. A “singing cowboy” – he wrote the hit song “I won’t go hunting Jake (but I’ll go chasing women)” that placed #3 in the US for 1950. At Billy Graham’s 1949 Los Angeles Crusade, the “original juvenile delinquent” and alcoholic was converted, quit doing alcohol commercials, gambling, and horse Read more...