John Hambleton
John Hambleton (1820-1889) was raised in the seaport city of Liverpool, England. His saintly mother was one strong link in the events leading to his conversion. "I shall never forget the lovely way she used to place her hand upon...
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Henry Moorehouse
Henry Moorhouse (1840-1880) is called "the man that moved the man that moved the millions" referring to his influence with Dwight Lyman Moody. Who was the man they familiarly called "Harry"? Born in Manchester, his father was a kind, hardworking...
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Raymund Lull
When Pope Urbane II called for the first Crusade in 1095, he spoke to an audience craving a rugged spirituality that does not back down to Saracens or infidels. Christendom had yielded too much prime real estate to the advance...
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The Stundists
The Stundist movement began in 1858 when German believers began to actively present the gospel of Christ to Russian-speaking neighbors near the city of Odessa. The Germans had come into the area under a Homestead Act, but had been forbidden...
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Unknown, and Yet Well Known
Anyone reading Church histories, especially those covering the Middle Ages, will doubtless meet the Waldensians, the Lollards, and the Anabaptists. But who were they? THE WALDENSIANS In 1160, Peter Waldo (?-1217), a wealthy young banker, was stunned by the death of a...
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C. F. Hogg
Charles Frederick Hogg (1859-1943) used his outstanding gifts to raise the standards among the Lord's servants and the church in general. Born into a godly family in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the year that revival swept the country, he was...
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Donald Munro
Donald Munro (1839-1908) was born in the county Caithness, in the far north of Scotland. His parents, James and Hannah Munro, held the "old Puritan theology of the highlands that conversion is a necessity, the new birth a work of...
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Donald Ross
As a youth, Donald was "as proud as a peacock, and as empty as a drum," and yet he "said" prayers night and morning, for fear that God would smite him if he didn't. Then one day while Ross was...
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C. J. Baker
His mother penned this in her Bible, "July 22, 1840. This day delivered of a son, Caleb Jason. The Lord have mercy on my son." At seventeen, a defiant Caleb Jason Baker (1840-1918) left Sussex, England for America. But the God...
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