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William Richards was a significant figure in the early nineteenth-century missionary movement, remembered for his work in the Hawaiian Islands and his role in shaping both religious and political life during a time of profound change. His life reflects the blend of evangelistic zeal, cultural engagement, and public service that characterized many early Protestant missionaries. Born in 1793 in Massachusetts, Read more...
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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...
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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...
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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.” ♦ _____ ♦ John Berry McFerrin was one of the most energetic and influential Methodist evangelists of the nineteenth century, Read more...
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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. The tabernacle in Marshalltown in which Sunday did his preaching was located 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 for 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 The Great Frieze in Kansas City stands as one of the most powerful artistic tributes to the legacy of the First World War. Carved into the north wall of the Liberty Memorial—now Read more...
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Corrie ten Boom, known to many simply as Corrie ten Boom, lived a life marked by courage, faith, and remarkable forgiveness. Born on April 15, 1892, in Haarlem, she grew up in a devout Christian family whose quiet, steady values would later guide them through one of the darkest periods in modern history. The ten Boom family operated a watch Read more...
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Richard Wurmbrand, also known in certain contexts by the name Nicolai Ionescu, stands as one of the most compelling witnesses of faith and endurance in the twentieth century. His life, marked by dramatic conversion, severe persecution, and tireless advocacy, left a lasting impact on Christians around the world and brought global attention to the suffering of believers under oppressive regimes. 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 sentence are over. Read more...
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Hymn History: Leaning on the Everlasting Arms Author: Anthony Johnson Showalter “(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 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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Hymn History: Victory in Jesus Author: Eugene Monroe Bartlett Sr. 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 Read more...
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“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...
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“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 Read more...
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“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...
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Hymn History: Jesus Loves Me Author: Anna Bartlett Warner “You have rendered a real and patriotic service, and on behalf of all our people I desire to express our obligation and our appreciation.” (President Theodore Roosevelt in a letter to Anna Bartlett Warner) The Origin of the Hymn “Jesus Loves Me” Few hymns in the English-speaking world have Read more...
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Hymn History: The Love of God Author: Frederick Martin Lehman Were all the skies parchment, And all the reeds pens, and all the oceans ink, And all who dwell on earth scribes, God’s grandeur could not be told. Rabbi Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai Frederick Martin Lehman was born in Schwerin, Germany – a town east of Hamburg about Read more...
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Hymn History: Go Tell It on the Mountain Publisher: John Wesley Work Jr. The fact that we sing “Go Tell It on the Mountain” every Christmas is really a credit to the tenacity of John Wesley Work Jr., a former professor of Latin, Greek, and History at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. In fact, C. Michael Hawn says bluntly: “’Go, Read more...
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Hymn History: Trust and Obey Author: John Hanna Sammis If you turn into the main entrance of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, and make your way east on Westminster Road, you’ll pass the grave of Red Skelton and Elizabeth Taylor. Just after the final resting place of these two famous people is “Section L” – the portion Read more...