Christianity - Biographies

The Story of a Soul (Version 2)

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Saint Therese Of Lisieux



She is also known as St. Thérèse of Child Jesus. She was born at Alençon, France, 2 January 1873; died at Lisieux 30 Se…

Lives of the Saints: With Reflections for Every Day in the Year

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Alban Butler



Compiled from the much larger 12 book set of "Butler's Lives of the Saints", this volume contains short biographies of the Saints,…

St. Francis of Assisi

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G. K. Chesterton



For Chesterton, Francis of Assisi is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved th…

Saint Athanasius: The Father of Orthodoxy

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Frances Alice Forbes



A short and rather old fashioned biography a great saint. Don't expect subtlety; it's unapologetic hagiography. The saint is presented as a …

Acres of Diamonds

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Russell Conwell



Text of famous inspirational lecture and biography of Russell Conwell, a Baptist minister and Temple University Founder (Summary by Scott Da…

Saint Benedict

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Frances Alice Forbes



Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480 – 543 or 547) is honoured by the Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students. Benedict found…

Twenty Years on Horseback; or, Itinerating in West Virginia

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William Marion Weekley



William Weekley was graduate of Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky, and a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. From the au…

Life of Luther (Version 2)

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Gustav A. Just



A short biography of Martin Luther, by Gustav Just, who taught at Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran School, St. Louis.Martin Luther (1483-1546)…

A Token for Children

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James Janeway



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…

One of China's Christians: Pastor Hsi of North China

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Mrs. Howard Taylor



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…

The King's Son, Or, a Memoir of Billy Bray

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Frederick William Bourne



Billy Bray, was an unconventional Cornish preacher. He was born in 1794 in the village of Twelveheads, Cornwall, England. After leaving sch…

Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, Volume 3 (July-September)

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John Gilmary Shea



Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints : with reflections for every day in the year : compiled from "Butler's Lives" and other appro…

Borden of Yale '09: "The Life that Counts"

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Mrs. Howard Taylor



Borden of Yale '09 is the inspiring biography of William Borden, a young American millionaire. During a trip around the world, Borden commit…

Raymond Lull: First Missionary to the Moslems

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Samuel Zwemer



With his vast knowledge in a wide range of subjects, Raymond Lull was a Renaissance man before the time of the Renaissance. After encounteri…

One of China's Scholars

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Mrs. Howard Taylor



The first of two volumes telling the life story of Pastor Hsi, a Confucian scholar from Shanxi province in Northern China who became a Chris…

John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides: An Autobiography; First Part

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John Paton



“Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to…

A Life of St. John for the Young

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George Ludington Weed



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…

The Joachim Neander Collection

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Various



This collection brings together biography, history, theology, hagiography and hymns to gather as many articles as possible about the German …

Converts from Infidelity, Volume 1

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Andrew Crichton



Converts from infidelity; or, Lives of eminent individuals who have renounced libertine principles and sceptical opinions, and embraced Chri…

From Life to Life; or How Our Preachers Die

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William Marion Weekley



William Weekley was graduate of Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky, and a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. From his p…

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