Wikipedia: Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf and Pottendorf (* 26. May 1700 in Dresden; † 9. May 1760 in Lord’s hat) was a German Lutheran–pietistic self-taught[ 1 ] theologian, Imperial Count, Founder and bishop the Herrnhut brothers ( „ Brothers’ Union “ ) as well as poets of numerous hymns. Image Credit: Balthasar Denner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Read more...
From Reach Beyond (HCJB): One Sunday morning at Lake Harbor, Paul Rader gave a missionary challenge, and at the invitation, Clarence, who had been leading the singing, went forward to give his life for missionary service. Rader was greatly moved. “God bless him. We need Clarence Jones here in this work. But if God wants him in missionary work, Read more...
From Wikipedia Lillian Hunt Trasher (27 September 1887 – 17 December 1961) was an American Christian missionary to Asyut, Egypt, as well as the founder of the first orphanage in Egypt. She is famed as the “Nile Mother” of Egypt.[by whom?] Early life Trasher was born in Jacksonville, Florida and was raised Roman Catholic in Brunswick, Georgia.[1] According to one account, her Quaker family had moved to the South 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...
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...
Author: Grace Greater than All Our Sin I have partly learned some of my lessons, Some others but dimly I see; I was ever, I think, a slow learner: My Teacher is patient with me; So patient and tender and loving, So gentle and kindly His rule, I care not how simple my lessons, If they are but taught Read more...
Author: Sweet Sweet Spirit “Her music was a special gift, and she gave God all the glory for it. It wasn’t her, it was God that put that gift into her possession.” Rev. Willa Grant Battle, Founding Pastor of Grace Temple Deliverance Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota Born in Brookfield, Missouri, on May 21, 1923, Doris Mae “Dot/Doe” Akers Read more...
Author: I Will Sing the Wondrous Story What do slaughterhouses in Massachusetts have to do with the hymn “I Will Sing the Wondrous Story?” One man. A Baptist pastor. Francis Harold Rowley. Born in 1854, Francis was the son of a medical doctor. He accomplished his preliminary education at the Wilson Preparatory School in Rochester, New York, before graduating Read more...
Author: Just a Little Talk with Jesus The negro spiritual was a musical art form created by the African slaves of yesteryear to give voice to their misery and to communicate with one another. “The term ‘American Negro Spirituals’ speaks to the history, the suffering, the hope and the resolve of a people who were able to sing through Read more...
Author: I Am Resolved Palmer Hartsough was born in Redford, Michigan, on May 7, 1844, to Wells and Thankfull Barnes Palmer Hartsough. Named in honor of his mother’s maiden name, Palmer was raised in a Christian home – his father was very active in the fledgling Michigan Baptist Convention (established in 1836). Palmer attended both the Michigan State Normal Read more...
Author: Trust and Obey If you turn into the main entrance of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, and make your way east on Westminster Road, you’ll pass the grave of Red Skelton and Elizabeth Taylor. Just after the final resting place of these two famous people is “Section L” – the portion of the cemetery that houses Read more...
Publisher: Go Tell It on the Mountain The fact that we sing “Go Tell It on the Mountain” every Christmas is really a credit to the tenacity of John Wesley Work Jr., a former professor of Latin, Greek, and History at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. In fact, C. Michael Hawn says bluntly: “’Go, tell it on the mountain’ Read more...
Author: The Love of God Were all the skies parchment, And all the reeds pens, and all the oceans ink, And all who dwell on earth scribes, God’s grandeur could not be told. Rabbi Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai Frederick Martin Lehman was born in Schwerin, Germany – a town east of Hamburg about 70 miles and just south Read more...
Author: The Solid Rock/My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less “My Sabbaths were spent in the streets at play. So ignorant was I that I did not know there was a God.” If there ever was a person that could hide behind their upbringing and excuse their godlessness, it was Edward Mote. Born to tavern owners on January 21, Read more...
Author: Jesus Loves Me “You have rendered a real and patriotic service, and on behalf of all our people I desire to express our obligation and our appreciation.” (President Theodore Roosevelt in a letter to Anna Bartlett Warner) Anna Bartlett Warner was born on August 31, 1827, to Henry and Anna Warner on Long Island, New York. Anna and Read more...
“I have finished my work, I am waiting at the River, looking across for further orders.” So ended the life of one of America’s most notable African-American preachers. In fact, one biographer called John Jasper “the most famous of all the slave preachers.” (Dance, “Jasper, John.”, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore, 2006), while another entitled his biography Read more...
“I sat down and counted the cost, freedom or confinement, liberty or a prison; it admitted of no dispute. Having ventured all upon Christ, I determined to suffer all for Him.” James Ireland was perhaps the most afflicted Baptist pastor of all the men who were held in the Culpeper Jail in the mid 18th century. There were no modern Read more...
“Stephen’s living face was as the face of an angel. Brother Kline’s dead face was the face of a saint—no, not the face of a saint, but the face of the earthly casket in which a saint had lived, and labored, and rejoiced; and out of which he stepped into the glories of the eternal world. Amen!” (Benjamin Funk, Life Read more...
Author: I Need Thee Every Hour “Suddenly, I became so filled with the sense of nearness to the Master that, wondering how one could live without Him, either in joy or pain, these words were ushered into my mind, the thought at once taking full possession of me – ‘I Need Thee Every Hour …’” In the Hoosick Cemetery (Hoosick, Read more...
Author: Victory in Jesus Eugene Monroe Bartlett, Sr., was laid to rest at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, only two years after suffering a debilitating stroke at the age of fifty-four. Bartlett was quite the musician, having composed several hundred hymns during his lifetime and founding the Hartford Music Institute in 1921. The Institute was driven to Read more...
