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Excerpt from David Livingstone ON March lgth, 1913, a hundred years will have passed since David Livingstone was born. It is only forty years since his body was carried by faithful hands from the centre of Africa to the coast that he might be buried among his peers in Westminster Abbey. In those forty years great and astounding changes have been witnessed in the Continent which is associated with his fame. The campaign he fought against the s...

Excerpt from C. Silvester Horne: In Memoriam April 15, 1865 May 2, 1914 Charles Silvester Horne, the youngest son of the late Mr. Charles Horne, of Newport, Shropshire, was a son of the manse, and was born at Cuckfield, Sussex, on April 15th, 1865. His father's health failed, and he resigned the ministry for journalism, to become editor of a country newspaper at Newport, where Silvester Horne spent his early years. His preliminary education w...

Excerpt from Pulpit, Platform and ParliamentTen busy years in many fields of activity are not, perhaps, sufficient justification for so personal a book as this. But when I began to write down some of the events that have interested me most, and to share with others some of the responsibilities that have burdened me, there seemed to be no escape from the personal pronoun. May I ask you to believe that it has been with no desire to obtrude my ow...

Excerpt from The Story of the L. M.S: 1795 1895 The fact that the book was to be reprinted from the original plates has prevented the making of any corrections or addi tions, had such been called for, in the body of the work. The Opportunity has been taken, however, to replace a few of the more old-fashioned illustrations by others of a newer order. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic book...

Excerpt from Let Us Pray: A Handbook of Selected Collects and Forms of Prayer for the Use of Free Churches It cannot be said that Free Churchmen have ever been indifferent to the ideal of public worship. Indeed they endured much suffering in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that they might secure liberty to worship God according to the conscience of the worshippers. Yet it may be questioned whether those who are so swift to appreciate,...

Excerpt from Nonconformity in the Xixth CenturyMay I be allowed to address this volume to you with sincere and affectionate regard? It deals with events concerning which you might legitimately say quorum magna pars fui. SO far as possible I have excluded from its pages the names Of living leaders. The limitation has prevented my doing any justice to the work and witness Of men like yourself to whom our Churches owe so much. In slight compensat...

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PREFACE ON March 8th, 1913, a hundred years will have passed since David Livingstone was born. It is only forty years since his body was carried by faithful hands from the centre of Africa to the coast that he might be buried among his peers in Westminster Abbey. In those forty years great and astounding changes have been witnessed in the Continent which is associated with his fame. The campaign he fought against the slave-system that desolate...