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John Alexander Dowie

Author

(1847 - 1907)

John Alexander Dowie

By John Alexander Dowie (1847 – 1907) I sat in my study in the parsonage of the Congregational Church at Newtown, a suburb of the beautiful city of Sydney, Australia. My heart was very heavy, for I had visited the sick and dying beds of more than thirty of my flock, and I had cast the dust to its kindred dust into more than forty graves within a few weeks. Where, oh where, was He Who used to heal His suffering children? No prayer for healing seemed to reach His ear, and yet I knew His hand had not been shortened. Still it did not save from death even those for whom there was so much in life to live for God and others. Strong men, fathers, good citizens, and more than all, true Christians sickened with a putrid fever, suffered nameless ag... continue

John Owen
John Owen

Writer

(1616 - 1683)

John Owen’s life was incredibly difficult. Born in 1616 and dying in 1683, Owen lived through the deaths of...
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J.I. Packer
J.I. Packer

English-Canadian theologian

(1926 - 2020)

J. I. Packer comes from humble origin. Packer claims to have been born into a lower middle class family. T...
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Lee Strobel
Lee Strobel

American author

(1952 - )

Lee Strobel (Lee Patrick Strobel) is a former American investigative journalist and a Christian Author who has...
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