Christian Heroes

Monday, October 1, 2001

The White Fox of Andhra

“Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war” (Jer. 51:20). India is a colorful land and God has sent some colorful Christians to labor there. One of those at the fore was Silas Fowler Fox . “No one sleeps when...

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Sunday, October 1, 2000

Hsi Shengmo

David Hill (1840-1896) was a pioneer missionary in central China with connections to the Wesleyan Missionary Society. Hill was from a privileged background and gave generously to missionary and church work. He founded schools for the blind, set up orphanages,...

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Thursday, June 1, 2000

W.T.P. Wolston

Walter Thomas Prideaux Wolston (1840-1917) was born at Brixham, Devon, in the far south of England, on the Channel, 40 kilometers from Plymouth. He was evidently surrounded and nurtured by godly influences. Around those parts at that time an F....

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Saturday, April 1, 2000

Henry Soltau

We are often told that right doctrine should have a practical effect. Henry William Soltau (1805-1875) lived to show us how that is done. He was the second son of George Soltau, a prosperous merchant of England's port city Plymouth....

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Tuesday, February 1, 2000

Samuel Rutherford

I hesitated to write about Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661) because I thought no one would believe me. In this frivolous day, when a preacher tells an obligatory joke at the opening of every sermon, is there anyone left who can understand...

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Saturday, January 1, 2000

The Covenanters

No country was so transformed by the Reformation as was Scotland. Before the mid-1500s, Roman Catholicism was the official church there. Two years before John Knox returned from Geneva, certain men did "band thame selfis" to maintain "the trew preaching...

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Monday, November 1, 1999

John Foxe

John Foxe (1516-1587), born in Lincolnshire, England, was an English church historian whose massive and unanswerable work, The Acts and Monuments, nerved all of England against the Church of Rome. John entered his training at Brazenose College, Oxford when just sixteen--in...

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Friday, October 1, 1999

Edward Perronet

Edward Perronet (1726-1792) penned what is today called the National Anthem of the Church: "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name." Edward and Charles Perronet, sons of Vincent Perronet, an Episcopal clergyman, who preached fifty years at Shoreham, England, joined forces...

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Thursday, July 1, 1999

J. G. Bellett

John Gifford Bellett (1795-1864) was the premiere devotional writer in what is called the "Brethren movement" of the 1800s. His sweet peaceableness filters through all his writing. In an age of doctrinal combat, we read Bellett and hear the apostle's...

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