Jonathon Goforth
Jonathan Goforth
1859 - 1936
The Holy Spirit's Man In China
by Eugene Myers Harrison
Few Christians have been so tempted to carnal pride as was he, for few have been the human instrument of such remarkable revivals or ... read more
Joseph Addison
Born: May 1, 1672, Milston (near Amesbury), Wiltshire, England.
Died: June 17, 1719, Holland House, Kensington, England.
Buried: Westminster Abbey, London, England.
Son of Lancelot Addison, sometime Dean of Lichfield and author ... read more
Julian of Norwich
The Lady Juliana was born about 1342, and when she was thirty years old, she became gravely ill and was expected to die. Then, on the seventh day, the medical crisis passed, and she had a series of fifteen visions, or "showings," in which she was led to ... read more
Justin Martyr
Justin Martyr was born around 100 (both his birth and death dates are approximate) at Flavia Neapolis (ancient Shechem, modern Nablus) in Samaria (the middle portion of Israel, between Galilee and Judea) of pagan Greek parents. He was brought up with a go ... read more
Karl Barth
Karl Barth
1886-1968
Karl Barth is considered by some the greatest Protestant theologian of the 20th century and possibly the greatest since the Reformation. More than anyone else, Barth inspired and led the renaissance of theology that took ... read more
Lars Olsen Skrefsrud
Lars Olsen Skrefsrud was born in Norway in 1840. He wanted to become a pastor, but his family was very poor, and after minimal education he was trained as a coppersmith. Unhappy with his life, he began to drink heavily. With some drinking companions, he r ... read more
Leo the Great
Leo I (440-461) and Gregory I (590-604) are the only two bishops of Rome commonly called "the Great." Leo, at a time when the capital of the Empire had been moved to Constantinople, and the government even in Italy no longer had its headquarters at Rome ... read more
Leonard Ravenhill
Leonard Ravenhill was one of Britain's foremost outdoor evangelists of the 20th century. God used him to help bring thousands of people to Christ throughout Britain. Unlike the case with many of today's evangelists, the conversions that Leonard helped t ... read more
Lizzie Akers
Born: September 6, 1866, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania.
Lizzie was the daughter of Rev. Joseph Benson Akers (1829-89), of the Methodist Central Pennsylvania Conference, and Henrietta Galligher Akers. Lizzies mother died when she was se ... read more
Ludwig Nommensen
Ludwig Nommensen, Missionary to Sumatra
Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen was born in 1834 in Schleswig-Holstein (a district long disputed between Denmark and Germany, and at that time Danish). In 1857 he began training for missionary work, and in 1862 he went ... read more
Madame Guyon
Born: April 1, 1648, Montargis, Loiret, France.
Died: June 9, 1717, Blois, France.
Madame Guyon was the leader of the Quietist movement in France. The foundation of her Quietism was laid in her study of St. Francis de Sales, Madame de Chantal, ... read more
Martin Luther
Martin of Erfurt, born in 1483 of German peasant stock, was a monk (more exactly, a regular canon) of the Order of Saint Augustine, and a Doctor of Theology. In his day, the Church was at a spiritual low. Church offices were openly sold to the highest bid ... read more
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.(January 15,1929-April 4, 1968)
was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serv ... read more
Martin Niemoeller
"First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not spe ... read more
Mary Slessor
Mary Slessor
1848-1915
"Mother of All the Peoples"
Mary Slessor was born on 2nd December 1848 in Gilcomston, a suburb of Aberdeen, the second of seven children, only four of whom survived childhood. Her father, Robert Slesso ... read more
Maximilian Kolbe
Raymond Kolbe (who took the name Maximilian when he became a friar) is known chiefly for the manner of his death, but his life was also noteworthy. He was born in 1894 near Lodz (51:49 N 19:28 E) in a part of Poland then under Russian rule, of parents who ... read more
Menno Simmons
Menno Simons
1492-1559
Dutch Anabaptist.
Menno Simons was born in Friesland, Holland. Little is known of his early life and education. In 1524 he was ordained to the priesthood of the Roman Church. However, his study of the New Testament soon b ... read more
Michael Maybrick
Born: January 31, 1844, Liverpool, England.
Died: August 25, 1913, Buxton, Derbyshire, England.
Buried: Ryde, Isle of Wight.
Pseudonym: Stephen Adams.
Maybrick played the organ at St Peters Church (his father was parish clerk), 1855- ... read more
Nathan Atkinson Aldersley
Born: May 26, 1826, Carlton, Yorkshire, England.
Died: October 19, 1899, Wellington, New Zealand.
Originally a Methodist preacher, Aldersley joined the Salvation Army around 1879, serving as a sergeant at Keighley, Yorkshire, where he sold earthenwa ... read more
Nathan Söderblom
Nathan Söderblom, Archbishop of Uppsala
Nathan Söderblom was born in Trönö, Sweden, in 1866 and ordained in 1893. He was chaplain at the Swedish Embassy in Paris from 1894 to 1901, and earned a doctorate in comparative religion from the Sorbonne. ... read more
Nehemiah Adams
Born: February 19, 1806, Salem, Massachusetts.
Died: October 6, 1878, Boston, Massachusetts.
Adams graduated from Harvard College in 1826, and Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He then became pastor of a Congrega ... read more
Nikolai Grundtvig
Nikolai Grundtvig, Bishop and Writer
Nikolai Frederik Severin Gundtvig and Soren Kierkegaard are the two principal figures in Danish theology in the 19th century. Grundtvig was born in 1783, and at the age of 20 graduated from the University of ... read more
Onesimos Nesib
Onesimos Nesib, Translator and Missionary
Onesimos, was born in about 1855, in western Ethiopia. He was captured by slave traders and brought to the coast. There Swedish missionaries bought him, freed him, educated him, and converted him. He bel ... read more
Origen
ORIGEN (AD 185-254)
The same persecution in which Perpetua and her companions suffered at Carthage raged also at Alexandria in Egypt, where a learned man
named Leonides was one of the martyrs (AD 202). Leonides had a son named Origen, whom he had brough ... read more
Oskar Ahnfelt
Born: May 21, 1813, Gullarp, Skåne, Sweden.
Died: October 22, 1882, Karlshamn, Blekinge, Sweden.
Buried: Karlshamn, Blekinge, Sweden.
Swedens Spiritual Troubadour, Ahnfelt composed or arranged the music for all of Lina Sandell- ... read more
Oswald Chambers
"We are in danger of forgetting that we
cannot do what God does,
and that God will not do what we can do." -OC
Some years ago a friend gave me a copy of "My Utmost for His Highest." I was thankful and I began to read it, but it didn't do ... read more
Pachomius, Anthony and Athanasius
Pachomius, Founder of Christian Community Monasticism
Pachomius was born in Egypt around 290, and is said to have served as a soldier, and to have become a Christian shortly after completing his military service. In about 320 he went to live ... read more
Pandita Ramabai
Fire kindles more fire. In 1904 one of the most significant revivals of the modern Church age swept through Wales. News of the Welsh revival quickly encircled the globe, bringing with it sparks of hope and expectation. Soon revival fires were burning in I ... read more
Patrick
Patrick was born about 390, in southwest Britain, somewhere between the Severn and the Clyde rivers, son of a deacon and grandson of a priest. When about sixteen years old, he was kidnapped by Irish pirates and sold into slavery in Ireland. Until this tim ... read more
Paul Tillich
Paul Tillich is generally considered one of the century's outstanding and influential thinkers. After teaching theology and philosophy at various German universities, he came to the United States in 1933. For many years he was Professor of Philosop ... read more
Perpetua
During a persecution of Christians under the emperor Septimius Severus, a group of Christians died together in the arena at Carthage. Their final days have been recorded for us in a document that is partly in their own words, and partly in those of an ano ... read more
Peter Abelard
The "heavenly birthday" of Anselm is also that of Peter Abelard, a brilliant lecturer, debater, and philosopher of the following generation. Anselm and Abelard are often regarded as two poles in Christian understanding of the Atonement (see articles cit ... read more
Philip Doddridge
It was June 26, 1702. After thirty-six hours labor, Monica Doddridge gave birth to her twentieth child. It was obviously stillborn and Monica's hopes were dashed. Eighteen of her children had already died in infancy and she had so wished to have a brothe ... read more
Philip Melanchthon
Philipp Schwartzerd was born in Bretten, Germany, in 1497. After the death of his father in 1508, his education was supervised by his great-uncle, Johann Reuchlin, the most distinguished (non-Jewish) Hebrew scholar of his day, and author of De Rudimentis ... read more
Polycarp
Polycarp was Bishop of Smyrna (today known as Izmir), a city on the west coast of Turkey. The letters to the "seven churches in Asia" at the beginning of the book of Revelation include a letter to the church in Smyrna, identifying it as a church undergo ... read more
Praying John Hyde
PRAYING JOHN HYDE
Apostle to India
(1865 - 1912)
John Hyde was born in 1865 in Carthage, Illinois. His father was Rev Smith Harris Hyde a Presbyterian. John and his brother Edmund attended seminary t ... read more
R. A. Torrey
Reuben Archer Torrey
BORN: January 28, 1856
Hoboken, New Jersey
DIED: October 26, 1928
Asheville, North Carolina
LIFE SPAN: 72 years, 8 months, 28 days
EXCELLENCE IN TWO AREAS of ministry has been achieved by a few; it has been a rare genius who h ... read more
Richard Baxter
Richard Baxter was born on the 12th of November, 1615 at Rowton, Salop, and died at the age of 76 on the 8th of December, 1691. We meet here this evening to commemorate the 300 years of his death. This event is one of several which have been arranged here ... read more
Richard Hooker
On any list of great English theologians, the name of Richard Hooker would appear at or near the top. His masterpiece is The Laws Of Ecclesiastical Polity. Its philosophical base is Aristotelian, with a strong emphasis on natural law eternally planted by ... read more
Robert Murray McCheyne
Robert Murray McCheyne
1813-1843
Robert Murray McCheyne was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, May 21, 1813. He taught himself the Greek alphabet at the age of four. He later distinguished himself as a student of Edinburgh University.
McC ... read more
Robert Raikes
Robert Raikes
1736-1811
Sunday School, the greatest lay movement since Pentecost, was founded by a layman. Robert Raikes was the crusading editor of Gloucester Journal. After becoming frustrated with inefficient jail reforms, Raikes was convinced vi ... read more
Roland Allen
Roland Allen
1868-1947
"Christ has given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit." -from Pentecost and ... read more
Russell & Marina Stendal
Russell is the oldest of Chad & Pats four children. At the age of four while his family was living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he prayed and asked God to call his parents to be missionaries. God answered that prayer and within just a few years the whol ... read more
SADHU SUNDAR SINGH
PREFACE
The words of Christ -
"Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am." (John
xiii.13)
"Take my yoke upon you and learn of me . . . and ye shall find rest
unto your souls." (Matt. xi.29)
There is nothi ... read more
Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky
Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky was born in Lithuania in 1831, went to Germany to study for the rabbinate, there became a Christian, emigrated to America, trained for the priesthood, and in 1859 was sent by the Episcopal Church to China, where he devot ... read more
Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
Born: February 22, 1805, Harlow, Essex, England.
Died: August 14, 1848, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, England, of tuberculosis.
Buried: Foster Street, near Harlow, Essex, England.
Daughter of journalist and politician Ben ... read more
Smith Wigglesworth
BEGINNINGS OF HEALING MINISTRY
Smith Wigglesworth had a plumbing business in Bradford, England. Every Tuesday he would take people to Leeds to a group who practiced divine healing because they could not persuade Smith that the people could b ... read more
Symeon the New Theologian
St. Symeon (c. 949-1022) is called a theologian because of the importance of prayer in his life. The scion of a wealthy family in the provinces, Symeon was, at 11, sent to Constantinople to live with an uncle and to study. Symeon entered imperial service ... read more
Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross
Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada (later known as Teresa de Jesus) was born in Avila, Spain, 28 March 1515, one of ten children whose mother died when she was fifteen. Her family was of partly Jewish ancestry. Teresa, having read the letters of Jerome, decided t ... read more
The Wesleys
Susanna Wesley and the Unauthorized Meetings
by J. B. Wakeley, 19th Century Methodist Historian
While her husband was absent in London in 1711, attending Convocation, Mrs. Wesley adopted the practice of reading in her family, and instructing them ... read more
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