Biography/History

From birth to death and the journey in between, this autobiography illustrates the faithfulness of Prophecy in the News founder J.R. Church and his life of service to the Lord and mission to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a dark world. Taken from...

SKU (ISBN): 9781609579883Author: Wigton, JamesBinding: Trade PaperPublisher: Xulon PressPublished: 11/10

The story of Dr. John Gibson Paton (1824-1907), Scottish Presbyterian missionary to the South Pacific, is well-known. Paton settled on the island of Aniwa (1866-1881) with his second wife, Margaret (Maggie) Whitecross Paton. By the end of the...

John Albert Broadus (1827–1895) was an American Baptist pastor and professor at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, one of the most famous preachers of his day. Charles Spurgeon deemed Broadus the “greatest of living preachers.”...

In addition to pastoring churches in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, David Jones also undertook one of the earliest Baptist missionary endeavors among the American Indians in 1772-1773. During the Revolutionary War and again in the Indian Wars of 1794-1796...

The life of Benjamin Franklin is stranger than fiction. Its realities surpass the idealities of novelists. Imagination would scarcely venture to portray such victories over poverty, obscurity, dificulties, and hardships. The tact, application,...

This biography by Miss Woodson is the only full-length treatment on William B. Johnson, being first published in 1950. A spiritual heir of the early Particular Baptists in South Carolina, William B. Johnson's contribution to American Baptist life was not...

Product Description Five hundred years ago, on All Hallows' Eve in 1517, monk Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses---and ignited a firestorm that scorched the medieval church and forever transformed Western society. From the author...

Compiled and edited by Charles D. Mallary “Among the early Baptist ministers in South Carolina, one of the more influential and colorful was Edmund Botsford (1745-1819). He was nurtured in the faith by Oliver Hart, was a contemporary and...

Written by his daughter, Susan P. Lee, originally published in 1893. A valuable narrative of Brigadier-General, C.S.A. Chief of Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia, Rector of Latimer Parosh, Lexington, Va. Dr. Pendleton's address on the "Personal...

This delightful yet scholarly work for ages 10 to adult portrays Mrs. Lee's faithfulness to Christ through youth, marriage, motherhood, loss of luxury, war, and crippling arthritis. Douglas Southall Freeman says Mrs. Lee displayed all the qualities that...

The Reformation did not happen instantaneously; it was something God patiently arranged over a number of years. As you read this book, you will learn how the Lord used some people to plant the seeds of church reform long before October 31, 1517, when...