“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...
Author: Just As I Am “Then followed a period of much seclusion and bodily distress, from the continuance of feeble health. Her views, too, became clouded and confused, through an introduction to religious controversy, and the disturbing influence of various teachers, who held inadequate notions of the efficacy of Divine grace.” (Sister of Charlotte, Eleanor Elliott Babington, describing Charlotte’s physical Read more...
“In those days that tried men’s souls the old hero preferred the bread and water diet and the foul air of Culpeper jail, to the abandonment of his faith in Christ and loyalty to him as King.” Located just west of New Market, Virginia (originally called “Cross Roads”), is the grave of Anderson Moffett, the third pastor of Smith Creek Read more...
Author: Leaning on the Everlasting Arms “(Anthony Showalter) was known as an editor, composer, compiler, writer of theory textbooks, song leader, and successful businessman, simultaneously managing three music-related businesses and having interests in lumber (and) insurance …” (The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology) Talk about a “Renaissance Man!” Anthony Showalter showed an aptitude for music, business, church ministry, philanthropy, teaching, administration, Read more...
The man who saved AM Radio. Divorced 3 times. Addicted to OxyContin. Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And yet not long before he died, he gave his life to Jesus. Joel Rosenberg shares more and this quote from Rush It’s tough to realize that the days where I do not think I’m under a death Read more...
Wikipedia: Richard Wurmbrand, also known as Nicolai Ionescu (24 March 1909 – 17 February 2001) was a Romanian Evangelical Lutheran priest, and professor of Jewish descent. In 1948, having become a Christian ten years before, he publicly said Communism and Christianity were incompatible. Wurmbrand preached at bomb shelters and rescued Jews during World War II.[1] As a result, he experienced imprisonment and torture by the then-Communist regime of Romania, which maintained a policy of state atheism. After serving a Read more...
Wikipedia: Cornelia Arnolda Johanna “Corrie” ten Boom (15 April 1892[1] – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II by hiding them in her home. They were caught, and she was arrested and Read more...
If you have a copy of The Story of the Great Frieze By Liberty Memorial Association (Kansas City, Mo.) · 1935 please contact me. The Great Frieze tells a story of one of the deadliest wars in history – that foreshadowed an even deadlier war to come – and that claimed the conditional Biblical promises that would bring blessing Read more...
Whither thou goest I will go Where Thou lodgest I will Lodge Thy people shall be my people And thy God my God -Ruth 1:16 Presented to the people of Kansas City by Howard Vanderslice, the inscription reads: “To commemorate the Pioneer Mother who with unfaltering trust in God suffered the hardship of the unknown west to prepare Read more...
Wikipedia: Charles Thomas Studd, often known as C. T. Studd (2 December 1860[1] – 16 July 1931), was a British missionary, a contributor to The Fundamentals, and a cricketer. In 1888, he married Priscilla Livingstone Stewart, and their marriage produced four daughters, and two sons (who died in infancy). As a British Anglican[2] Christian missionary to China he was part of the Cambridge Seven, and later was responsible for setting up the Read more...
Billy Sunday (1862-1935) is regarded as the most prominent — and influential — evangelist of the early part of the 20th century. Born near Ames, he spent part of his youth in Marshalltown, then returned here in 1909, where he spoke to a packed tabernacle of his followers. Image Credit: User, Super, et al. “Re-Digging the Wells of Revival: Dutch Read more...
From the Newspaper: the body was conveyed to the Methodist Church, and a funeral sermon delivered by the Rev. J. B. McFerrin. The speaker, in that portion of his remarks personal to the deceased, gave a brief sketch of his life and public career, passed a high and deserved eulogium on his moral character and unblemished integrity, and detailed in Read more...
Formerly the site of the McFerrin House, home of John B. McFerrin, the Methodist evangelist who President James K Polk heard at a camp meeting in 1833 and was provoked, but left “a convicted sinner, if not a converted man.” Read more...
On July 17, 1854, Frances Ridley Havergal was confirmed at Worcester Cathedral. In the procession to Worcester Cathedral Ellen Wakeman was my companion. On reaching our seat very near the rails, I sunk on my knees, and for the first time to-day the thought of “whose I am” burst upon me, and I prayed “my God, oh, my own Father, Read more...
From Seth Folkers: As the oldest son of a daughter of Jonathan Edwards, great things might have been hoped for Timothy Dwight, but they did not come by accident. His mother, a godly and intelligent woman with decided views, was in earnest about her responsibility towards her son. She taught him early, not only to read—he was easily reading Read more...
From Wikipedia: They sailed on November 19, 1822 on the ship Thames under Captain Clasby from New Haven, Connecticut in the second company from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Hawaii. They arrived to the Hawaiian Islands April 24, 1823 and landed in Honolulu April 27.[3] On May 28, 1823 he and shipmate Charles Stewart sailed on the Royal Yacht Cleopatra’s Barge to Lahaina and on May 31 founded Read more...
