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Ada Habershon was born in London, England, on January 8, 1861, the youngest daughter to “earnest, uncompromising parents”. She devoted her life to the Lord’s service and became a keen student of the Bible.
As a schoolgirl she sat under the ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and in 1884 found herself helping in the Dwight Moody/Ira [...]

Thomas De Witt Talmage was born on January 7, 1832, in New Jersey, USA, the youngest of eleven children, to a farmer.
Converted at the age of 18, he entered the Christian ministry soon afterwards. Three of his brothers did likewise.
Maybe he was not the greatest of American preachers, but certainly one of the most popular. [...]

Charles Haddon Spurgeon was converted on January 6, 1850.
He was 15 years of age, and a snowstorm had prevented him from attending his usual place of worship. So, in his own words … “I turned down a side street and came to a little Primitive Methodist chapel” (C.H. Spurgeon Autobiography, Volume 1, page 87).
Before we [...]

Saint Simeon Stylites is celebrated by some on January 5, as St Simeon Stylites Day.
This character … for such he must be called … rose to great hermit heights when he spent 36 years atop a pillar in the middle of the desert, somewhere between Syria and Cilicia.
Simeon was born in 384AD to a family [...]

James Usher (or Ussher) was born in Dublin, Ireland on January 4, 1581, as the son of a Dublin lawyer.
He is regarded as one of the greatest scholars and theologians of his time, with an enthusiasm for knowledge. His pursuit of good resource material led to him travelling widely in both Britain and Europe in [...]

Clara Swain arrived in Bombay, India on January 3 1870, and went on to set up the first Women’s hospital in Asia. Her travels had been overwhelmingly difficult and gruelling, including a sea voyage that caused her to note, “I cannot bear to think of the sea, it treated me so badly”.
She had graduated from [...]

Rachel Saint was born in Pennsylvania on January 2, 1914.
As a young girl Rachel had a dream of dark skinned natives in green jungles. She worked for over a decade in outreach to alcoholics in New Jersey and then joined the Peru branch of the Summer Institute in Linguistics (SIL) in 1942. For the next [...]

Hymn Writer, James Rowe was born in Devonshire, England on January 1, 1865.
At an early age Rowe entered the Government Survey Department, where he continued till 1890. when his family migrated to America and he settled at Albany, NY. There Rowe became a railroad employee and married Blanche Clapper.
He later devoted his life to [...]

John Wycliffe died on December 31, 1384.
He was born of sturdy Saxon stock in Ipreswell, Yorkshire, England, somewhere around the year 1320 (the date range is from 1320-1330, but 1324 is the date often chosen). It was in an age of spiritual darkness – and 200 years before Luther would shake the church with his [...]

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, on December 30, 1865, and many of the stories for which he later became famous bear the marks of that Indian background.
His father was a teacher of arts and crafts and Rudyard was raised by a maid who taught him Hindustani as his first language. However, at age [...]