Born in Quebec to Scottish parents, T. D. W. Muir was born again in Hamilton, Ontario, under the preaching of John Smith and Donald Munro. He pioneered the assembly work in Detroit, Michigan. We had a baptism at Belle Isle, an island with a commodious beach in the Detroit River. After the baptism we had […]
I was brought up in Vancouver, Canada in God- ordained surroundings, graduating at an early age as a school teacher. When about to apply for my first position as a teacher in the British Columbia schools, missionaries from the Dominican Republic, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Peterkin, came to our city on furlough, making known […]
“You’re throwing your life away!” was my workmate’s retort, when I resigned my job as an accountant to follow the Lord’s leading to take the gospel to those who had never heard it. “Give up your career? How are you going to support yourself?” an older Christian barked out when I told him of what […]
In the summer of the year 1900, my wife and I went to Bakersfield (CA) for a tent campaign…The meetings went on for two months and were blessed to the salvation of a few souls, which greatly gladdened our hearts. When the time came to take down the tent, we went over to the station […]
“All dollar dealings suspended.” The message of the telegram was clear and it was enough to strike a cold, gnawing fear into any heart. The year was 1929, the time of the stock market crash. Six years before, Wallace and Ruth Logan had left their family and friends and also a thriving electrical contracting business […]
During 1948 there occurred two historic events of special interest to Bible students, namely, the rebirth of Israel as a nation and the formation of the World Council of Churches. More importantly to me, however, 1948 was also the year in which I stepped into full-time service for the Lord, believing He would both guide […]
In the spring of 1905 we moved permanently to Alberta to live and labor as the Lord would be pleased to lead and use us. My wife, family and I had a pleasant journey and arrived hail and hearty in Edmonton. It was not long before we settled down to the stern realities of life […]
Q: Tell us about some of your early experiences. A: I was saved on May 3, 1918, and two weeks later was baptized and received into the assembly at Donegal Road in Belfast. I was sixteen years of age at that time. In that same year I went to Harland and Wolf Shipyard and contracted […]
How many days in your life are truly memorable? A landmark anniversary here; a special birthday there; a graduation or retirement. Hopefully for the believer there are days of significant dealings with God—our Peniels and Elims and Bethels and Hebrons, our times of wrestling and refreshing and revelation. God help us to raise up cairns […]