Archive For: Testimonies of Great Saints
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
An earnest Christian young woman was about to sail from Liverpool to visit friends living in Jamaica. It was in the days of the old sailing ships. The voyage would be long and fraught with perils. She decided to visit Rev. William Bramwell, a much-esteemed Methodist minister in the city, and to ask him to ... Read More
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
Dr. A. Kuyper, theologian, journalist, statesman, Prime Minister of Holland, was a child of the manse. In Scholten’s classroom in the University of Leyden, “the inherited faith lost its root in my heart; it shriveled under the withering heat of unbelief. Of the old treasures, I retained nothing.” Nevertheless he went into the ministry of ... Read More
“Poor Ann, she can never learn anything! ”exclaimed the schoolteacher in a despairing way. The small girl had been in the class just one week, but found the ABC’s so difficult to master that the conclusion was reached that effort on such a dull child was utterly wasted. So she was summarily dismissed, to return ... Read More
New YearÂ’s Day, 1907, was a fitting day for the entrance of Brigadier Albin Peyron of the Salvation Army, into the life beyond, for few have more singularly experienced newness of life here in time. For many years he had been a Christian of the conventional sort. Then Christ brought him to a bitter experience ... Read More
A lonely woman intercessor, a devoted and consecrated missionary and a proud and brilliant Confucian scholar – only a mighty God could have brought these three so miraculously together to fulfil His far-reaching purposes. Our Heavenly Father will move Heaven and earth on behalf of a longing soul. In this instance, it was the heart-cry ... Read More
“Sweep a circle of three feet around the cross of Jesus, and you take in all that there was of Alfred Cookman,” wrote DeWitt Talmage after the death of this good man. It had not always been so with this talented but devoted minister. When only twenty years of age, Alfred Cookman had suffered serious ... Read More
The landlady at Wellington Inn, Doncaster, listened as the twenty-seven year old Isaac regaled the inmates of the bar with the news that he had done with the old life. She could remember times when this wild, dissolute, infidel ringleader had overturned tables, broken wine glasses and held the room spellbound with his caricaturing of ... Read More
“Poor Ann, she can never learn anything! ”exclaimed the schoolteacher in a despairing way. The small girl had been in the class just one week, but found the ABC’s so difficult to master that the conclusion was reached that effort on such a dull child was utterly wasted. So she was summarily dismissed, to return ... Read More