August Van Ryn
August Van Ryn (1890-1982) wrote of his birth, "My arrival in Haarlem (Netherlands) on May 15, 1890, created no particular sensation (unless it was one of dismay, for already there were seven Van Ryns ahead of me--with five more to...
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David Rea
David Rea (1845-1916) was born near Lurgan, in Northern Ireland. Married in 1868, he was brought to Christ the following year. His notorious drinking had been a colossal embarrassment to his faithful wife and a scandal to his relatives and...
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Alexander Peden
Coming out of the reformation in the 1560s, Scotland had a long and hard struggle with England. Covenanters were Scottish patriots and believers of the 1500s and 1600s. They entered into covenants (agreements) with one another to resist being forced into...
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Lord Radstock
In the 1870s, the Spirit of God did a remarkable work among the upper classes in Russia. A prominent instrument of that work was Lord Radstock, whose preaching and individual witnessing were peculiarly blessed. Granville A. W. Waldegrave (1833-1913) became the...
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Martin Luther
"Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox" (Prov. 14:4). Martin Luther, (1483-1546), irreversibly changed Christendom when he faced off with an empire at the little town of Worms. Germany. This...
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Anthony Norris Groves
Anthony Norris Groves (1795-1853), "the father of faith missions," deeply influenced the founders of the China Inland Mission, the North Africa Mission, and particularly his own brother-in-law, George Muller. Anthony was the only son in a family of six. His mother...
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Girolamo Savonarola
When the vitality of the Word of God is missing from the pulpits, the vacuum has always been filled, sometimes by eloquence, by joke-telling, by man's philosophies, or by anecdotes. Almost anything has been pulled in to fill the void,...
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Fanny Crosby
Mrs. Frances Jane Crosby Van Alstyne (1820-1915) produced those outstanding spiritual songs: "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," "Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour," "Rescue the Perishing," "Some Day the Silver Cord Will Break," "Blessed Assurance," "Thou, My Everlasting Portion,"...
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