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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 Read more...
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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 Read more...
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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...
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“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 Read more...
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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, Read more...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...