In 1896 the Democratic National Convention would be held in Chicago. Who would emerge as the leader of the party to be their presidential nominee? The Coliseum in Chicago was twice the size of Madison Square Garden, and had just been completed. It almost was finished the previous year when it collapsed – but was quickly rebuilt. Buffalo Bill’s Wild Read more...

The Boy Orator of the Plains, Three time Democrat nominee for President, and the Lawyer of the Scopes Trial Read more...

TL, DR: Billy Sunday’s first professional baseball game was played May 22, 1883, in Chicago at now-Millennium Park. Ten years later, on June 11, 1893, D.L. Moody would preach to his largest audience at the same spot, in a circus tent! The 1890s were the peak of the Gilded Age. Industrialization, wage growth, railroads, factories, mines, immigration, formed the boom Read more...

“Don’t you remember saying, ‘Moody, the world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to him?’ ” –Christianity Today   Life of Henry Varley – https://www.brethrenarchive.org/people/henry-varley/snippets/life-story-of-henry-varley/ Formerly a nonconformist chapel – https://sites.rootsweb.com/~todmordenandwalsden/mountolivet.htm Remains may have been moved – https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/229500364/henry-varley Read more...

Abraham Lincoln, on his way to the White House to be inaugurated as President, stopped by Dwight L. Moody’s Sunday School in “Little Hell” I was once as poor as any boy in this school, but I am now President of the United States, and if you attend to what is taught you here, some of you may yet be Read more...

On this site in 1855, was where Edward Kimball, taught Sunday School. A young D.L. Moody came to his class one Sunday. Kimball was impressed to visit his at the shoe store that his uncle operated nearby. Read more...

From Wikipedia: Billy Bray was born in 1794 in the village of Twelveheads, Cornwall, England, UK. He was the eldest of three children born to William Bray, who was a miner, and his wife Ann, who came from Gwennap. William Bray died when his children were young and they were cared for by their grandfather, who was a pious Methodist. After leaving school, Billy Read more...

Named for the day of his birth, Christmas Evans (1766-1838) was an unlikely evangelist. When he was saved in 1783 he could not read or write. David Larsen records that “Evans was called the John Bunyan of Wales, ‘the one eyed-man from Anglesea,’ and the ‘prophet sent from God.'” Eventually he taught himself Greek and Hebrew to better preach – Read more...

Voltaire was one of the greatest skeptics in history. He declared in his own commentary on the Bible: “The subject is now exhausted: the cause is decided for those who are willing to avail themselves of their reason and their lights, and people will no more read this.” And what would happen to his house? “I went through Geneva, and Read more...

The only Free Lutheran Church in Copenhagen, started by Niels Pedersen Grunnet (1827-1897)   From Christian Cyclopedia: (February 19, 1827–January 13, 1897). B. North Bjert, near Kolding, Den.; joined the Staerke jyder (Strong Jutlanders) movement formed ca. 1800 in opposition to rationalism; taught school at Hedensted and Egtved; soldier 1848; studied theol. at the school of the Basel* Miss. Soc. 1851–54; dismissed because of his refusal to embrace a compromising confessional Read more...