LINCOLN, ABRAHAM EARLY LIFE Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, 1809, in a log cabin in Hardin (now Larue) County, Ky. Indians had killed his grandfather, Lincoln wrote, "when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest" in 1786; this tragedy left his...
Reuben Archer Torrey 1856-1928 Congregationalist minister. R.A. Torrey was educated at Yale University and Leipzig and Erlangen Universities in Germany. In 1889 he was called to Chicago to supervise the Moody Bible Institute and served as pastor of...
The body of a paper prepared for Dr. William Matheny at Liberty University by Thomas P. Wynn Saint Francis of Assisi INTRODUCTION St. Francis of Assisi is one of the Catholic Church's most loved, yet misunderstood, saints. He was not, as...
Jonathan Edwards BORN: October 5, 1703East Windsor, Connecticut DIED: March 22, 1758 Princeton, New Jersey LIFE SPAN: 54 years, 5 months, 17 days {SCT}THE DREAM OF MOST PREACHERS is to have the proper balance of knowledge and zeal, brain and...
Oliver Boyce Greene 1915-1976 Oliver Boyce Greene was born on February 14, 1915, in Green- ville, South Carolina. He accepted Christ as his Saviour when he was 20 years old. Five months later, the Lord called him to preach, and, to prepare for...
John Jasper1812-1901John Jasper was born a slave, the last of 24 children. He grew up on a plantation where he labored in the fields until he reached adulthood. One day, in 1839, while working in a tobacco factory, he was converted to Christ....
John Calvin 1509-1564 Founder of Calvinism. John Calvin, a French scholar who be- came a leading preacher and dominant force in the Reformation of the 16th Century, studied at the University of Paris and at the University of Orleans. He became...
Reuben Archer Torrey BORN: January 28, 1856 Hoboken, New Jersey DIED: October 26, 1928 Asheville, North Carolina LIFE SPAN: 72 years, 8 months, 28 daysEXCELLENCE IN TWO AREAS of ministry has been achieved by a few; it has been a rare genius who has...
JEFFERSON, THOMAS. EARLY LIFE Jefferson was born at Shadwell in what is now Albemarle County, Va., on Apr. 13, 1743. He treated his pedigree lightly, but his mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson, came from one of the first families of Virginia; his...