Yearly Archives: 2009
No little stir was occasioned in Mulheim when the young merchant Gerhard Tersteegen, retired from his business and took up lodgings in an isolated cottage, in order to search after God. For some years his relatives and friends left the youthful twenty-two year old to his odd quest. Another young man, many hundreds of years ... Read More
Of an English family with great traditions was Commander Booth-Tucker. His Devon forbears sailed with Sir Francis Drake and a long line of Tuckers distinguished themselves in army and navy. His grandfather was chairman of the Court of East India Company, an office of almost regal character. Tuckers were judges and administrators and soldiers in ... Read More
The name Baedeker brings before one’s inner vision the red covered handbooks that are the indispensable accompaniment of the tourist in Europe. But there was another Baedeker who himself was a guide to heavenly lands as well as an indefatigable traveler on earth. This was Dr. Frederick W. Baedeker, pioneer evangelist and colporteur throughout the ... Read More
“How is it that two hundred years after his death Protestants of France unite to celebrate the work of an evangelist with neither degree nor diploma and whose ministry in France lasted less than four years? How is it that one of the most isolated valleys in the High Alps became the scene of a ... Read More
Eva fumed, and her pent-up rebellion found an escape as she climbed the roof of the neighbouring house and shook her fist at the retreating figure of the cleric, muttering, “You shall not rob me of my liberty.” Then, feeling most superior in her newly declared freedom, she jumped over the chimney stacks. She had ... Read More
When the fashionable young Mrs. Cobb relinquished her status as a votary of the world and became a lowly servant of Jesus Christ, she startled the inhabitants of Cazenovia, New York. But her decision was only the outward symbol of a profound and deep work of divine grace which marked the beginning of sixty long ... Read More
In Evesham, in a pleasant vale through which the Avon flows, on December 16, 1837, the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth, gladdened the hearts of Thomas and Edith Foster. Little could they realize, as they looked at this small bundle of life, that she was destined to affect multitudes. For Elizabeth Foster Baxter became co-editor ... Read More
Preface In our day of spiritual superficiality and anemic Christianity, characterized by sin-infested pulpits and indifferent pews, the subject of revival is nonetheless a popular one. Few who talk of it, however, have the faintest idea what a real moving of God is all about. Impressive financial holdings, ornate edifices of worship, statistical proofs of ... Read More
The newly converted lad of seventeen, with several friends, was trudging along a dark and lonely road in Wales, to meet his pastor and study the Word of God. Suddenly, six youths, armed with sticks, sprang out from a place of concealment and ruthlessly attacked them. Christmas Evans was struck on his head in such ... Read More
Eighteenth century Europe was saturated with a rationalistic deism. It was the Era of the Enlightenment – of Bolingbroke, Semler, Voltaire, the Encyclopaedists. The churches of the Reformation were paralyzed by its infiltration. Then came, at the century’s close, great changes and renovations as when the sap rises in the tree trunks in springtime. Revival ... Read More
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