Theodore Edward Aylward
Born: February 28, 1844, Salisbury, England.
Died: February 6, 1933, Cardiff, Wales.
Son of William Price Aylward (organist at St. Martin, and later, St. Edmund, Salisbury), Theodore studied at Salisbury Cathedral under C. J. Read ... read more
Thomas Aquinas
In the thirteenth century, when Thomas Aquinas lived, the works of Aristotle, largely forgotten in Western Europe, began to be available again, partly from Eastern European sources and partly from Moslem Arab sources in Africa and Spain. These works offer ... read more
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton, known in the monastery as Fr. Louis, was born on 31 January 1915 in Prades, southern France. The young Merton attended schools in France, England, and the United States. At Columbia University in New York City, he came under the influence o ... read more
Toyohiko Kagawa
Toyohiko Kagawa was born in 1888 in Kobe, Japan. Orphaned early, he lived first with his widowed stepmother and then with an uncle. He enrolled in a Bible class in order to learn English, and in his teens he became a Christian and was disowned by his fami ... read more
Uncle John Vassar
Uncle John Vassar
by David Smithers
The central fact of true Christianity is a Holy and intimate union with Jesus Christ. Uncle John Vassar was never content with anything less than true Christianity. First and foremost he was a loy ... read more
Watchman Nee
Beginning in the sixteenth century, many Protestant missionaries were sent to China from Europe and America. In the opening years of the twentieth century, following centuries of faithful labor and catalyzed by the martyrdom of many Christians in the Boxe ... read more
William Booth
On April 9,1865, Lee met Grant in the parlor of a private home at Appomattox Court House. He surrendered his army and brought an end to four long years of death and devastation called the Civil War. In the same year a 36 year old Englishman by the name o ... read more
William Carey
William Carey
1761-1834
by Fred Barlow
English Baptist missionary to India. Born in England in 1761. Pastor before going to the mission field, he spent an active forty-one years serving the Lord in India, including translating the Scriptures.
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William Cooke
Born: 1821, Pendlebury (near Manchester), England.
Died: November 23, 1894.
Pseudonym: A.C.C. (A Canon of Chester)
Cooke was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA 1843, MA 1847). Ordained a Deacon in 1844, and Priest in 1845, by Bishop Blomfi ... read more
William Joseph Seymour
William Joseph Seymour
(1870 - 1922)
William Joseph Seymour was the co-founder of modern Pentecostalism. Brother Seymour will surely go down in history as one of Americas greatest African American religious leaders. You have heard lots about Azusa. ... read more
William Law
William Law, born in 1686, became a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1711, but in 1714, at the death of Queen Anne, he became a non-Juror: that is to say, he found himself unable to take the required oath of allegiance to the Hanoverian dynasty (w ... read more
William Perkins
William Perkins
(1558-1602)
The Elizabethan Puritan Par Excellance!
Biographical Sketch:
William Perkins, an outstanding preacher, made great contributions to the Puritan Movement despite the shortness of his life. He was born in Marton, ... read more
William Tyndale
William Tyndale was born about 1495 at Slymbridge near the Welsh border. He received his degrees from Magdalen College, Oxford, and also studied at Cambridge. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1521, and soon began to speak of his desire, which eventual ... read more
Zinzendorf & The Moravians: Prayer Makes History
Zinzendorf & The Moravians: Prayer Makes History
by David Smithers
Count Zinzendorf
Throughout the history of the Church, it has always been the most ardent lovers of Jesus who have felt the greatest need for more of His presence. Surely it is with ... read more
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