Christianity - Biographies
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…
John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides
Despite the trouble and dangers John G. Paton had faced on the island of Tanna (as recounted in the first part of his autobiography), his tr…
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 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 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…
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.…
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…
A Life of St. John
This is a thorough treatment of the Apostle John whose life is intertwined with that of Christ, as one of the inner core and as the disciple…
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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Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy
In this second volume of his work on English rational theology in the seventeenth century, Tulloch describes the lives and works of the grou…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
From Life to Life
William Weekley was graduate of Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky, and a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. From his p…
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…
3 from LightByDesign
Three fascinating, action packed stories from the old holiness literature circa late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Our first story is call…
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…