Christianity - Biographies
The Valley of Baca
Jennie Smith was a 19th-Century Job. At 15 years old, her father's business and finances failed, and he later died of illness, leaving her f…
A Story of One Short Life
This is a brief biography of Samuel J. Mills who was instrumental in establishing the first missionary society in the United States, and als…
A Casket of Cameos
Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…
The Life that Counts
Borden of Yale '09 is the inspiring biography of William Borden, a young American millionaire. During a trip around the world, Borden commit…
The Letters of John Knox
The letters... will perhaps more clearly exhibit the temper and character of Knox, than his more elaborate compositions: but to understand t…
The Rule of Pachomius at Tabenna
The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who mainly lived in the Scetes desert of Egypt. The most famous was St.…
A Breviate of the Life of Margaret Baxter
A breviate of the life of Margaret, the daughter of Francis Charlton, of apply in Shropshire, esq. and wife of Richard Baxter. For the use o…
Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Roche…
I believe that the good Bishop of Salisbury's account of the last days of poor young Rochester would, if carefully read, make more impressio…
One of China's Christians
The second of two volumes telling the life story of Pastor Hsi, a Confucian scholar from Shanxi province in Northern China who became a Chri…
Charles Simeon
Charles Simeon had come up to King’s college from Eton, a wild undergraduate, famous for his love of horses and extravagance in dress; but o…
Among the Mongols
A contemporary critic said of Among the Mongols by James Gilmour, "Robinson Crusoe has turned missionary, lived years in Mongolia, and …
Pathways of the Pioneers
Pathways of the Pioneers (Series) - Stories of the Men and Women Who Founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church https://whiteestate.org/resour…
Elizabeth Bayley Seton
This is a picturesque and moving account of the life and work of Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774-1821), the first native-born citizen of th…
John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides
In the third and final installment of his autobiography, John G. Paton tells of his travels through America and Britain speaking about and r…
Lectures on Female Scripture Characters
I began to look over sundry of my old manuscripts... [and] among them I found a number of lectures which I had delivered more than forty-eig…
Jabez
The Old Testament of the Bible contains many mysterious passages. In 1 Chronicles 4:9-10, we find a short prayer uttered by an obscure man:
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Pope Adrian IV
Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100-1159, pope 1154-1159) was the only English pope. Written by a Catholic in 1849, this biography of the pope appeare…
Indian Converts of Martha's Vineyard
This work is actually two "essays" which circulated together, one addended to the other. The first, Indian converts: or, Some acco…
Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893) was one of the finest and most famous clergyman in the nineteenth century; he was acknowledged as a masterful …
A Token for Children
Some of you have had the privilege to carry in your bosoms some of those . . . unfledged angels sent here but for a little while and then ca…