The Life of Saint Augustine
In the works of Augustine there is a dark abundance, a deeply coloured fecundity, which is beyond the range of nearly all Europeans. He lacked the delicacy which makes a writer happy in responding to the disciplinary demands of poetry, but that was all he lacked. He had to contend with the difficulty that he had always something to say, that the ideas flowed as fast as the ink from his pen, that his pages are crowded with arguments and illustrations, with hasty accounts of truths he has discovered on the planes of the flesh and the mind and the soul.
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The Life of Jonathan Edwards
American theologian and philosopher, Jonathan Edwards, was born in Connecticut. He entered Yale at the age of thirteen after having mastered Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. He was graduated at the age of seventeen and soon after was converted to Jesus Christ.
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The Life of John Newton
During his initial seafaring days he had very little concern for God and was easily influenced for the worse. Throughout his young life the thought of dying would haunt him, and for brief periods of time he would even appear religious. He had gone through three or four transient and partial reformations by the time he was sixteen, but these instances were times of conviction, not conversion.
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The Life of George Whitfield
Whitefield's early life, according to his own account, was anything but religious; though, like many boys, he had occasional prickings of conscience and spasmodic fits of devout feeling. But habits and general tastes are the only true test of young people's characters. He confesses that he was 'addicted to lying, filthy talking, and foolish jesting', and that he was a 'Sabbath-breaker, a theater-goer, a card-player, and a romance reader'.
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The Life of David Brainerd
After trying his hand at farming he began to prepare himself to enter Yale. During the year on the farm he had made a commitment to God to enter the ministry. But still he was not converted. He read the Bible through twice that year and began to see more clearly that all his religion was legalistic and simply based on his own efforts. He had great quarreling with God within his soul. He rebelled against original sin and against the strictness of the divine law and against the sovereignty of God. He quarreled with the fact that there was nothing he could do in his own strength to commend himself to God.
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The Life of D. L. Moody
On his seventeenth birthday (1854), Dwight Moody went to Boston to seek employment. He became a clerk in Holton's Shoe Store, his uncle's enterprise. One of the work requirements was attendance at the Mount Vernon Congregational Church, pastored by Edward Kirk. Church seemed boring, but a faithful Sunday School teacher encouraged him along. One Saturday, the teacher, Edward Kimball, walked into the store and found Moody wrapping shoes. He said, "I want to tell you how much Christ loves you." Moody knelt down and was converted.
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The Life of Daniel Rowland
Those aware of the religious history of the British Isles will know that Wales has been a 'land of revivals'. That said, too few are aware of the greatest preacher of the Gospel Wales has ever produced - Daniel Rowland. Notwithstanding Whitefield's fame, Dr. Lloyd-Jones considered that Daniel Rowland was the greater of the two. He is not alone in this judgement. In 1773, one reliable witness declared of Rowland, 'Surely he is the greatest preacher in Europe'.
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