Biography

Minor based this brief history of the 16th president on an array of testimony from previous biographers and men who knew Lincoln personally. He challenges commonly-accepted perceptions of the martyred president.

This biography of Robert Sayers Sheffey weaves the story of a unique--in the true meaning of the word--man, the details of whose life entitle him to the mythical position he holds even today among the people of a part of the South, where, so many years...

The life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon should be studied by every Christian, especially those who are in the ministry. Mr. Spurgeon was England’s best-known Baptist preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. He pastored at the...

Presents Lee's qualities of character, and insists that Lee was a hero in all that he did, in all stages of his life, precisely because of his character.

He heard God's call and did not hesitate to fulfill it. Through many harrowing trials and tests of his faith, Hudson Taylor followed God and relied on Him only. Even when all around him seemed to be crumbling - when fellow missionaries died, funds were...

Known primarily for his allegorical work, The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan was also a preacher, a gifted theologian and interpreter of Scripture. Academically, he was not a learned man, but when it came to practical and experiential...

This collection of essays portrays in touching and thrilling detail the heroism of the women of the Confederacy with accounts of their trials and sufferings during the War Between the States and the Reconstruction period, and demonstrates their ultimate...

The author was born near Boston in the year 1754. This volume chronicles his life and the happenings of his time period. It tells of his salvation at the age of 18, his conviction that turned him to preaching and teaching the word of God. It includes...

We have all read the stories of men and women who have achieved unbelievable success through their relentless pursuit of some goal or ambition. The characters described in this volume were also relentless in the pursuit of their goal–to completely...

What does it mean to hear God’s voice and follow it? And can we be certain of the calling God has for us as His children? From Biblical times to the present, men and women have asked these questions and forged out answers that enabled them to...

The particular characters in this volume, written by Edwin F. & Lillian G. Harvey, have been chosen because each heard a Voice and followed, regardless of the consequences. Having wrestled with their sinful natures, they saw in Redemption a cure for...

Like others in this series, this volume tells of people who did exploits because “they knew their God.” The examples of these giants of the faith remind us, that we too, as Longfellow put it, “can make our lives sublime, and departing...