Charles Henry Mackintosh’s life was as colorful as his writing. He was born in Glenmalure Barracks, County Wicklow, Ireland, in October, 1820. His father was a captain in the Highlanders’ Regiment, and had served in Ireland during the Rebellion. His mother was a daughter of Lady Weldon, and of a family long settled in Ireland. […]
Preaching was once the glory of Protestantism. When the pulpit displaced the altar and the preacher replaced the priest, the benefit to the common people was immeasurable. What happened at the Reformation was not, of course, an innovation but rather the recovery of an ancient emphasis, for the history of preaching is an honorable one […]
The angry Sixties were troubled times. In the San Francisco Bay Area, Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and other radicals conducted mass rallies at the University of California at Berkeley. Like slaughterhouse sheep following the “Judas-goat,” hundreds gathered to imbibe socialism and anarchy. The students were called on to rise against every form of authority (except […]
The evangelist must remember that it is not the government that gives him the right to preach publicly. That right comes to us from the One who said, “All authority is given unto Me in heaven and on earth. Go ye therefore . . . ” So when it comes to the when and where […]
The apostle Paul refused to take anything for his support from the saints at Corinth, but he gladly took what was sent from the Philippian church. What was the reason? There was a great difference between the two. In the church at Corinth, there were some who thought that they had as good a right […]
Who will fill the gap? This ringing challenge completed the biography of a brother just recently gone to glory. For many years, the man had held a responsible job at a large firm. He had raised a family and had also been, at various times in his life, a Sunday School teacher, a young people’s […]
I was brought up in the Roman Catholic religion and was an altar boy in the church of that faith. I tell you this because I want you to know that I had a “Christian” upbringing. Such religion did me little good in the years ahead. When I was about fourteen years old, after graduating […]
In 2010, the first of the “baby boom” generation (those born between 1946 and 1961) will become senior citizens. The Western world braces itself for the coming old-age crisis. According to Joyce T. Berry, U. S. Commissioner on Aging, “Within the next 40 years, the number of older persons in the U. S. will more […]
There are no Methuselahs among men today. Even those who live the longest are junior to Jacob, who at the age of a hundred and thirty declared that his years had been few (Gen. 47:9). There are many, however, who in the language of the Bible, are “well stricken in years.” We can say with […]