1855 HT: DIANE SEVERANCE AND DAN GRAVES Dwight L. Moody didn’t attend school beyond the fifth grade; he couldn’t spell, and his grammar was awful. His manners were often brash and crude, and he never became an ordained minister. Once, before his conversion, he so outraged an Italian shoe salesmen with a prank, that the…
1768 HT: Dan Graves If you imagine a boy so enthusiastic for learning that he devoured any writing he could lay his hands on, you have a picture of young Joshua Marshman. Joshua was born on this day, April 20, 1768, at Westbury Leigh in Wiltshire, England. Until the age of twenty-six he worked as…
HT: Stagger and Reel 1587 Today, on 18 April, we remember the life and legacy of John Foxe (1516–1587), a beacon of light in the history of the Protestant Reformation. Renowned for his seminal work, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, Foxe meticulously documented the courage and steadfast faith of those who suffered for the Gospel. Despite…