Biography

A summary of the life and conversion of spiritual giants of years past. Augustine, Luther, Latimer, Calvin, Henderson, Cameron, Bunyan, Wesley, Whitefield, Brainerd, Carey, Livingstone, Spurgeon, and others.

Iain Murray writes on a number of Christians he specially admires.

James Hudson Taylor (1832-1905) was a Christian missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission (renamed Overseas Missionary Fellowship). He served there for 51 years, bringing over 800 missionaries to the country and personally baptizing an estimated 50,000 converts.

The James A. Stewart Library Volume 3

J.C. Ryle’s life is convincing evidence that Christianity stands or falls depending on its relation to the word of God and to the Holy Spirit. That he is being read widely again at the present time gives hope of better days.

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This is the story of J. Hudson Taylor’s life

This book chronicles the life of John Bunyan, the famous author of Pilgrim’s Progress, The Holy War and several other titles. These timeless works are still popular today due to the spiritual fervor and compelling style in which they were written. This book gives a closer look into the life of this great dreamer.

What a mighty man of God John Jasper!

This book paints a vivid picture of Wesley’s spiritual journey – his active life and the message he preached.

This outstanding study is not only an exceptional biography; it also serves as a classic illustration of how the church today can and should learn from its past history.

When asked why he never wrote a book, John ( Rabbi ) Duncan (1796-1870) replied, ‘I cannot write, I m just a talker.’ Duncan had a genius for expressing profound thoughts in brief epigrammatic sayings. What I have sought to do in these pages is take the aphorisms of his conversations, as recorded in several original sources and present them here in one book, believing that they will greatly enrich the hearts and minds of all who read them.

The amount of clear thought packed into these pages is altogether out of proportion to their number. Duncan’s sayings have a near unique combination of depth and brevity. He exemplified the standard he expected of other: ‘I would advise everyone to be very careful to use no more words than are necessary to express thought. Whenever a man becomes cloudy in his words, be sure that his thought has become shadowy too.’ On Duncan’s death, William Knight remarked, ‘With him has perished a breathing library of wisdom.’

This volume, first published in 1853, contains a selection of his correspondence, edited by his son-in-law and biographer, William Hanna.

There is new material here, including some pages where the author differs with his friend. But Murray seeks to follow Lloyd-Jones in seeing the glory of God as the end of all Christian life and thought.

Are our civil and religious freedoms under threat? According to some social commentators we are living in very uncertain times in which the freedoms we have long enjoyed are coming under increasing pressure. The liberty we take so much for granted may not be as secure as we think.

John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides is a missionary classic. In this companion volume, Margaret Whitecross Paton gives an enthralling account of missionary life in the New Hebrides from the 1860s to the 1890s.

The Life and Ministry of Mrs. C. H. Spurgeon

Author Charles Ray

Think of the Maze Prison–what memories flood your mind? Can anything good ever come out of the Maze? If nothing else, there is one person, Thomas Martin. This book recounts a thrilling story of transformation. Martin is now a happy man, involved in a busy ministry for God.

Andrew Bonar’s biography of M’Cheyne conveys the fragrance of his life that no later writer could ever recapture.  Being dead, M’Cheyne yet speaks and it may be doubted whether any Christian can seriously read these pages without having an example of the power of godliness stamped upon their conscience in a manner that will remain with them for all their days.

It was at a YMCA Convention in Indianapolis that the famous preacher D. L. Moody first heard Sankey and invited him to join him on what was to become one of the greatest evangelistic teams of all time, Moody & Sankey. This is the story of Ira David Sankey.

Author Helen Rothwell

This is a magnificent two-volume set, calculated to stir the soul and to find a place of honour and affection in every Christian who loves to read the thrilling history of the Scottish church!

Spiritual leaders lead people to heaven. Here in Seven Leaders are accounts of seven such men, together with the distinctive features of their lives—in John Elias, the necessity of the power of the Holy Spirit; in Andrew Bonar, the reality of communion with Christ; in Archie Brown, the irresistibility of love; in Kenneth MacRae, the need for faithfulness to death; in Martyn Lloyd-Jones, theology and doctrine; in W. J. Grier, passing on the ‘sacred deposit’; and in John MacArthur, the governing authority of the word of God. An Old Testament miracle once took place at a burial. We are told that when the deceased was ‘let down and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet’ (2 Kings 13:21). Through books, the past can be touched, and the consequence may be as much of God as when Martin Luther handled the old writings of Jan Huss. Records of faithful servants of Christ still speak and can bring new life today.

Author Iain Murray

“Augustine never thought of God without thinking of his sin, nor of his sin without thinking of Christ.”

Preface and Reflections By Jonathan Edwards. This book changed the life of Henry Martyn; in his own words: David Brainerd. Oh! Blessed be the memory of that beloved saint! No uninspired writer ever did me so much good.

The Diary and Life of Andrew Bonar gives a panoramic view of one of the most fascinating periods of Scotland’s church history.  But foremost it is the record of God’s work in the life of a man who represented all that was finest in the evangelical life of that country.

This book traces the main lines of Spurgeon’s spiritual thought in connection with the three great controversies in his ministry.

Hendrickson Classic Biographies presents a one-volume abridgement of Wesley’s multi-volume journals. The Heart of John Wesley’s Journal presents a remarkable life, recorded and examined in real time by Wesley himself.

The world can do nothing to a Christian who has no fear of man. – Brother Yun a Chinese Christian his story

A biography of J. Frank Norris

Includes a biographical sketch of Jonathan Edwards by Phillip E. Howard Jr. This intensely devotional diary of a young 1740s missionary in the American wilderness inspired the world missions movement.

Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1818-1902) ‘one of the few greatest preachers of the first nineteen centuries of the Christian era’, was just 25 when he became the successor of J. H. Thornwell in Columbia, South Carolina, and 38 at the commencement of his 46-year pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church in the great business centre of New Orleans.

This biography takes us behind the public figure to the humble, prayerful Christian whose life was marked by affliction. His only son was lost in childhood and four daughters were to die, one after another, followed by his wife. As Palmer saw it, ‘The earthly lights are put out that no earthly love may come in between Him and us.’

This is not only a great biography; it is an outstandingly relevant record in an age when the church needs a recovery of spiritual strength and vision. It would be hard to read it sympathetically without being led to pray.

Author Thomas Cary Johnson