Harry A. Ironside 1876-1951 Bible teacher and preacher. At the age of 12, Harry A. Iron- side heard Dwight L. Moody preach, but he did not receive Christ until two years later. His own words were, "I rested on the Word of God and confessed Christ...
John Richard Rice 1895-1980 John R. Rice was born in Cooke County, Texas, on December 11, 1895, the son of William H. and Sallie Elizabeth LaPrade Rice. Educated at Decatur Baptist College and Baylor Univer- sity, he did graduate work at the...
John Hyde 1865-1912 John Hyde, better known as "The Praying Hyde," was born in Carrollton, Illinois. His father was a Presbyterian minister who faithfully proclaimed the Gospel message and called for the Lord to thrust out laborers into His...
John Huss 1369-1415 Bohemian reformer. John Huss was ordained to the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church in 1401, after receiving the bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Prague. He became a powerful preacher of Roman doctrine,...
John Franklyn Norris 1877-1952 Fundamental Baptist pastor. J. Frank Norris was born in Dadeville, Alabama. He was graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He was ordained to...
David Livingstone 1813-1873 Missionary and explorer. David Livingstone was born near Glasgow, Scotland. He studied medicine and theology at the University of Glasgow. He tried to go to China as a mission- ary in 1838, but when the Opium War in...
David Brainerd 1718-1747 Missionary to the American Indians. David Brainerd was born April 20, 1718, at Hatham, Connecticut. His early years were spent in an atmosphere of piety though his father died when David was nine and his mother died five...
James M. Gray 1851-1935 American Bible scholar, school administrator, editor, preacher, and poet. Born in New York City and reared in the Episcopalian Church, as a young man he prayed, "God be mani- fest to me a sinner." Known as a gracious and...
Ignatius35-107 A.D.Bishop of Antioch, where disciples were first called Christians in Acts 11. Ignatius was a native Syrian and a contemporary of John the Apostle and Polycarp.He was the first man to use the term "catholic," but he never used it in...