Biography

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

Practically everyone in the western world has heard of the man called St. Patrick. But hardly anyone knows anything about him. About the only two things that more people 'know' about Patrick is that he was Irish and Roman Catholic. In truth, he...

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...

This collection of C. H. Spurgeon’s travel letters offer a rare insight into a different side of the famed preacher.  Of the many telling phrases C. H. Spurgeon gave the world, one speaks to the way he, and his contemporaries, greatly valued...

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...

Product Description Andrew Jackson was a popular hero and America's seventh president. He was successful on the battlefield and exemplified the rough and hardy qualities of a frontiersman. His legacy is a controversial one due to his support for slavery...

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,...

In this new and greatly expanded volume, incorporating a completely revised and corrected edition of the author's 1998 book, The Life and Ministry of John Gano, 1727-1804, the story of this leading evangelical figure of the eighteenth century is related...

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...

Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Haverhill, Massachusetts 1765 to 1805 and Chaplain in the American Revolution 1775 to 1780. By John David Broome It is unfortunate that a man who helped to found a notable American university, who possessed two...

A True Story: Reflecting after Tragic Loss and Finding Victory in Christ. Tragedy, trials, hurt, and heartache—these are words that are painful to hear and even more so to experience; yet they happen. They are a part of life...