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St Martin of Tours Day is celebrated in many churches on November 11, “possibly the anniversary of his funeral” (The Spreading Flame, by F.F. Bruce, pages 350-351).
This biographer assures us that St Martin “belonged to the true evangelical succession” (ibid, page 350).
He was born in Hungary about AD 317 to pagan parents. His father was [...]

Henry Morton Stanley said his famous words “Dr Livingstone, I presume!” on November 10, 1871, in the heart of Africa, at Ujiji. The meeting is recorded in Stanley’s own book, How I Found Livingstone in Central Africa (page 331).
Stanley is described as an “illegitimate son of Britain’s industrial masses”. Stanley was born John Rowlands on [...]

Augustine’s testimony of his struggle to give up sin gives a profound explanation of how addiction takes charge of our will. It further reveals that our struggle to choose to be saved is a battle of our will against our will. That’s how it was for Augustine, one of the most influential men of ancient [...]

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 [...]

John Milton died on November 8, 1674. He is described as “the greatest poet of Christian themes England has produced”.
Born to a family of means in London on 9 December, 1608, his Christian convictions were most probably invoked through his mother, Sarah, who is described as a very religious person. His genius for poetry revealed [...]

William Franklin Graham was born on November 7 in 1918, in North Carolina.
Born four days before the end of World War I, Billy was reared on a dairy farm in Charlotte, North Carolina. During his childhood he helped on the family farm and spent many hours reading a wide variety of books in the hayloft.
In [...]

Archibald Thomas Robertson was born in Virginia, USA, on November 6, 1863.
At the time of his birth the American Civil War was already turning against the South, and so Robertson’s family suffered the loss of most of their fortune through the war. The Reconstruction had devastating effect on the family’s fortunes, so AT’s father, who [...]

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (BBW) was born near Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.A., on November 5th, 1851.
His early life on the farm left him with a life-long passion for farming and especially horses, and became a leading world authority on short-horn cattle.
He graduated from Princeton University “with highest honours” in 1871. The following year, at age 21, he [...]

James Montgomery was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on November 4th, 1771.
This son of a Moravian minister “wrote more hymns in common use today than any writer except Charles Wesley and Isaac Watts”.
His early years were spent in a Moravian settlement and when he was twelve his parents went as Moravian missionaries to the West [...]

Samuel Davies was born in Delaware, USA, on November 3, 1723.
His Welsh parents were deeply religious. Davies later said, ‘I am a son of prayer, like my namesake, Samuel the prophet, and my mother called me Samuel, because, she said, I have asked him of the Lord’.
Converted at the age of 12 he was admitted [...]