John Wycliffe
"This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks...
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Teodoro Pietrocola Rossetti
While the political landscape is being altered in a country, how often widespread spiritual renovations also occur. This has been true in Eastern Europe in the last decade. It was also true of the work of God in Italy in...
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James W. Clapham
It began as a visit, a brief stop on the journey, and became the labor of his life. James Clapham, a New Zealand school teacher, stopped in what was then called Palestine enroute to Britain. But, like the apostle Paul...
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Count Guicciardini
The Scripture declares that "not many noble" of earth are called by God (1 Cor. 1:26), yet there are some happy exceptions. The wave of spiritual blessing which passed over England about the middle of the nineteenth century, was remarkable...
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Leonard Strong
Why would the twelve-year-old son of a Church of England clergyman join the British Navy? Of course, this was a different time, and people seemed to be constituted of sterner stuff. And besides, what twelve-year-old wouldn't be filled with romantic...
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Charles Stanley
Charles Stanley (1821-1890), of Rotherham, England, was left an orphan at the age of four. At seven, he had to earn his living in the summer by working in the fields. With his energy he could have been a rascal....
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Susanna Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon confessed that if the man is the head of the home, then the woman is the neck that turns the head. And he should have known, because there was a woman who definitely turned his head. Susanna (Thompson)...
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C. H. Spurgeon
Surveying the mammoth ministry of C. H. Spurgeon, D. L. Moody was heard to remark, "It is not Mr. Spurgeon after all; it is God." Who was this man that the Lord used in such a singular way? Charles Haddon Spurgeon...
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Hans Neilsen Hague
In Norway, the rivers can be swift and hard to cross by boat. Hans had the feeling that danger was close by. He tells the story in his words: "When I was thirteen, my father and I, a brother, and another...
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