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From Wikipedia: Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, PC (6 April 1926 – 12 September 2014) was a Northern Irish loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 1971 to 2008 and First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2008. Paisley became a Protestant evangelical minister in 1946 and remained one for the rest of his life. In 1951 he co-founded the fundamentalist Free 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...

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...

“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   Featured Image Credit: The Voice of Hassocks, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Read more...

D.L. Moody tells about Henry Moorhouse: “In 1867, when I was preaching in Dublin, at the close of the service a young man, who did not look over seventeen, though he was older, came up to me and said he would like to go back to America with me, and preach the Gospel. I thought he could not preach it, and I said I Read more...

Burial Place of David Livingstone William Wilberforce John Milton King James I (of the King James Bible) George Fredric Handel and more! Westminster Abbey: In the south choir aisle of Westminster Abbey is a marble mural monument to non-conformist minister and hymn writer Isaac Watts. It shows a relief of Dr Watts seated in his study, with an angel guiding Read more...

English: This monumental bronze entitled “Livingstone and the Lion” is at the David Livingstone Centre, Blantyre, Scotland. The statue was designed and modeled in wax by Ray Harryhausen and Gareth Knowles created the bronze from that. Image Credit: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Read more...

Statue commemorating the Congregationalist missionary, explorer of Africa and enemy of slavery who became a popular hero of late-Victorian Britain. Featured Image Credit: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Read more...

From Wikipedia: Montgomery himself expected that his name would live, if at all, in his hymns. Some of these, such as “Hail to the Lord’s Anointed”, “Prayer is the Soul’s Sincere Desire”, “Stand up and Bless the Lord” and the carol “Angels from the Realms of Glory”, are still sung. “The Lord Is My Shepherd” is a popular hymn with Read more...

From Wikipedia: George Müller (born Johann Georg Ferdinand Müller, 27 September 1805 – 10 March 1898) was a Christian evangelist and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. He was one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren movement. Later during the split, his group was labelled as the Open Brethren. He cared for 10,024 orphans during his lifetime,[1][2] and provided educational opportunities for the orphans to the point that Read more...

From Wikipedia: John Charles Ryle (10 May 1816 – 10 June 1900) was an English evangelical Anglican bishop. He was the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool. Ryle was a strong supporter of the evangelical school and a critic of ritualism. He was a writer, pastor and an evangelical preacher. Among his longer works are Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century (1869), Expository Thoughts on the Gospels (7 vols, 1856–69), and Principles 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...

Hymn History: Just As I Am & Author: Charlotte Elliott “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 Read more...

Hymn History: The Solid Rock & Author: Edward Mote “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, 1797, Read more...

Miles Coverdale c.1488 – 1569Bishop of Exeter and believed to be a native of York. He translated and published the first complete printed English Bible (1535) and revised the Great Bible of 1539, sponsored by Thomas Cromwell. He was a major figure of the English Reformation and the Authorised Version of the Bible (1611) and the Psalms in the Book Read more...

Romans Chap. XVI. Verse XVII. The Holy Bible To the memory of Miles Coverdale who convinced that the pure Word of God ought to be the sole rule of our faith and guide of our practice laboured earnestly for its diffusion and with a view of affording the meaning of reading and hearing in their own tongue the wonderful works Read more...

Image Credit: Life and Works of Charles H. Spurgeon by Henry Davenport Northrop. www.whatsaiththescripture.com/Voice/Life.and.Works.of.Spurgeon/Life.and.Works.1.html.   From Wikipedia: Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19th June 1834[1] – 31st January 1892) was an English Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, to some of whom he is known as the “Prince of Preachers.” He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the 1689 London Read more...

From the Ely Standard: Charles Spurgeon, who gave sermons to more than 10,000 people at a time in the nineteenth century, was baptised in the river Lark at Isleham. Retired Anglican priest, Christopher Goodwins, said Spurgeon has been remembered for five years with a Ecumenical processional along the lanes of the village and along the river to the site of Read more...

From the church: The great Victorian ‘Prince of Preachers’, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, began his ministry here at the Baptist church in Waterbeach. Every great venture of faith has to begin somewhere, and we are seeking to rekindle the passion and impact of Spurgeon’s ministry in our present-day community some 170 years later. Spurgeon always had a fond love and appreciation Read more...

Pilgrim Fathers Immingham to Holland 1809. From this Creek the Pilgrim Fathers first left England in 1609 in search of Religious Liberty. The Granite top stone was taken from Plymouth Rock Mass and presented by the Sulgrave Institution of USA   Image Credit: Syncopator, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Read more...