Christianity - Biographies
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…
Twenty Years on Horseback
William Weekley was graduate of Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky, and a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. From the au…
Letters from New Zealand
"Being some Account of Life and Work in the Province of Canterbury, South Island." A set fo 26 letters covering the Author's perio…
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…
Life of Luther
A short biography of Martin Luther, by Gustav Just, who taught at Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran School, St. Louis.Martin Luther (1483-1546)…
Phillips Brooks
Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893) was one of the finest and most famous clergyman in the nineteenth century; he was acknowledged as a masterful …
A Casket of Cameos
Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…
Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints
Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints : with reflections for every day in the year : compiled from "Butler's Lives" and other appro…
One of China's Scholars
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…
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 King's Son
Billy Bray, was an unconventional Cornish preacher. He was born in 1794 in the village of Twelveheads, Cornwall, England. After leaving sch…
Jerry McAuley
Jerry McAuley was a missionary and founder of the Water Street Mission (later the New York City Rescue Mission), the first rescue mission in…
War Memories of an Army Chaplain
Henry Clay Trumbull was the Chaplain of the Tenth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers in the American Civil War. In this memoir, he gives his…
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…
Scripture Characters
Nineteen studies of figures from the Bible - some well-known and some obscure. The discourses were originally written as sermons and then re…
The Life that Counts
Borden of Yale '09 is the inspiring biography of William Borden, a young American millionaire. During a trip around the world, Borden commit…
A Memoir on the Life and Character of the Rev. Prince Demetrius A. de Gallitzin
Prince Demetrius of Gallitzin (1770-1840), or "Father Smith," as he was known on the eighteenth century American frontier, was one…
From Baca to Beulah
Sequel to The Valley of Baca. This continues the personal account of Jennie Smith, who spent more than 20 years in pain, unable to walk, and…
Jesus Christ Had Negro Blood in His Veins
This short work attempts to establish that Jesus had black ancestry dating back to Ham, the son of Noah, who had been made black-skinned as …
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…