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John Hyde was born in Illinois, USA, on November 9, 1865.
His father, Dr Smith Hyde, was a Presbyterian minister, and in that manse the power of prayer became a reality to young John. In later years John would be known to his fellow missionaries as “Praying” Hyde. Smith and his godly wife prayed fervently that [...]

This is the day that Hiram Bingham was born in Vermont, USA, in 1789.
He was nearly 20 years of age when Obookiah, a young Hawaiian lad, was found weeping on the steps of Yale College. He had arrived in America on a trading vessel. Led to Christ by a young Christian student, Edwin Dwight, it [...]

This is the day that Christian Friedrich Swartz was born in Prussia (now Poland), in 1726.
He has been described as “one of the most energetic and successful missionaries of the 18th century (Schaff/Herzog Encyclopaedia, page 2131).
His youth was spent at Halle, the centre of German pietism. Founded by Jacob Spener, this was a movement that [...]

This is the day that Revival came to Dohnavur, under the care of Amy Carmichael. It was 1905.
Amy Carmichael’s ministry began in Ireland where she reached out to women working in the factories. She was influenced by the Keswick Movement calling people to enter a deeper life of devotion.
In 1893 she went to Japan at [...]

This is the day that … Felix Neff was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1798. His father died when he was young and his mother denied him expressions of motherly affection, hoping to increase his manliness. She was a deist, having no interest in worship of God, yet her son displayed a ready keenness for [...]

This is the day that …Anthony Ashley-Cooper died in 1885 at the age of 84.
Better known as Lord Shaftesbury, he has been described as “the outstanding Christian layman of the 19th century.”
He was born on 28 April 1801 at 24 Grosvenor Square, London, the oldest son of the sixth earl of Shaftesbury. With strong family [...]

This is the day that … Charles Simeon was born in 1759.
The place was Reading, England, and the aristocratic home in which young Charles was reared was one of ‘affluence’.
It was during his education at Kings College, Cambridge that he was wonderfully converted through the reading of a sermon on the subject of the scapegoat [...]

This is the date that … John Coleridge Patteson was speared to death, in 1871.
He was born in London on 1 April, 1827, to devout upper-class parents, his father being a lawyer of good repute. Educated at Eton, he was elected captain of the College cricket team. Because it was the custom to sing ‘bawdy [...]

This is the day that … Tommie Titcombe was born in Wiltshire, England, in 1881.
It was at the age of 21 that he and some friends took shelter from a rainstorm by entering a Salvation Army hall. A meeting was in progress. Conviction of sin entered … and a few days later Tommie “was saved [...]

This is the day that … St Ansgar was born, in AD 801, according to the Schaff-Herzog Encyclopaedia!
He became known to church historians as “the Apostle of Scandinavia” – the last of the “rough, fierce, barbaric” peoples to accept Christianity.
Ansgar was a Frenchman, born to a noble family near Amiens, Picardy. It was [...]