English: This monumental bronze entitled “Livingstone and the Lion” is at at the David Livingstone Centre, Blantyre, Scotland. The statue was designed and modelled in wax by Ray Harryhausen and Gareth Knowles created the bronze from that. Photo by DeFacto Read more...
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...
In downtown Boston, MA, you can see where Dwight L. Moody was saved. Two years later found him in Chicago. When he wasn’t selling shoes, he ran a Sunday School class in an old saloon in a slum called The Sands, or Little Hell. In spite of his lack of education, he tried to teach the young children. He told Read more...
From December 31, 1862, to January 2, 1863, almost 3,000 soldiers were killed, and over 15,000 were wounded in the Battle of Stones River near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Union troops under Major General William Rosecrans faced off against Confederate General Braxton Bragg‘s men. During a battle, local homes would be impressed into service, often times as hospitals. Up the road from Read more...
Watch Douglas Whitley as George Muller: From the Website Our brand-new museum is now OPEN! We have relocated to one of the original and pioneering Orphan Homes which George Müller built in Bristol during the Victorian era. Our new address is: 45-47 Loft House, College Road, Bristol BS7 9FG. The museum is open Monday to Friday from 10am – 4pm. If Read more...
