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Ann Preston: Woman of Faith

26/1/2014

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In 1910, the Mayor of Toronto, Canada, declared, “I have had two honours this week. It has been my privilege to have an interview with the President of the United States...then I have been a pallbearer to Holy Ann. Of the two honours I prize the latter most.” Hardly something one would imagine to be said of an illiterate woman who was born to very poor farm workers in a little place called, Ballymacally near Markethilll, County Armagh, yet the faith of Ann Preston (1810-1906) impressed so many, that her packed funeral service saw 6 ministers of different denominations pay tribute to her in the company of Mayors and maids.

As a child, the local school teacher had dismissed her from class after only one week, declaring, “Poor Ann! She can never learn anything.” So illiterate Ann was employed as a house maid. Though hard working, she was known for her quick, hot, Irish temper and fondness for whisky until God’s saving grace came to her. Her employer, Mrs McKay invited Ann to a Methodist meeting held in a private home.  Of all the texts spoken that day, Ann remembered the words, “Thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut the door pray to thy Father who seeth in secret....” so after work that evening, under great conviction, Ann went up to the attic of the McKay home and knelt at a wooden chair. She began to cry out to God. Hours later, Ann arose with the knowledge that the Saviour’s blood had atoned for her sins. She went right over to a table upon which lay a Bible and she made her first request to her Heavenly Father, “O Lord, you that has taken away this awful burden, intolerable to bear, couldn’t you enable me to read one of these little things?” and putting her finger on a verse, she read, “Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again, but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give shall never thirst.” Her Heavenly Father indeed taught Ann to read the one Book she needed and over the years Ann read and memorized Scripture faultlessly, yet the reading of any other material was wholly lost to her. The man of God who was her minister in those early years, recommended her to the employ of one Dr Reid and his family, and it was with this family that Ann immigrated to Canada in her late 20s. 
 
Gaining a reputation for answered prayer, particularly in the area of healing, Ann was nicknamed ‘Holy Ann’ by a group of little boys who wrote this name on her front door. When Ann was told what they had written, she quickly went indoors to pray that God would indeed make her Holy so that she would not make liars of those
  little boys. Parishioners and Priests alike were convicted by this little lady’s love and depth of revelation of the Scriptures. 

Prayer to Ann was simple conversation and it was not uncommon to hear her conversing, “What was that you said, Father? Oh, yes, I hear you,” following which those who observed, would see her obey immediately or find the lost item.  Whether it was catching a train on time, or asking God to hold back the rain, or restore water to a dried-up well, her prayers were answered with demonstration of God’s power because Ann Preston found the secret of truly abiding and walking in the Spirit. 

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D.L. Moody: Man of Faith

19/1/2014

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D.L. Moody (1837-99) was born into a poor family of nine children with a father who loved whiskey and who died when Dwight was just four. His mother sent him to a school where he
learnt very little. At 17 years old this stout young Yankee decided to leave home and head for Boston where he became a shoe salesman. Over the next year as he attended church the convicting message prepared his heart. In April 1855 Edward Kimball, his Sunday school teacher, who was deeply burdened for him made his way fearfully to the shoe shop where Moody worked with the intention of confronting him about his salvation. With what he later thought was a very weak plea with tears in his eyes he challenged Moody. Within minutes Kimball returned home but that day in the back of the shop Moody accepted Christ. Later that year he moved to Chicago for business in search of success but his heart increasingly burnt for the souls of men. 

The years passed as he faithfully served in Sunday school work leading children to Christ. People thought him radical in his zeal to win souls so they nicknamed him ‘Crazy Moody.’ He pastored a church for several years
before being mightily baptised in the Holy Ghost. In 1872 he made a visit to Britain and Ireland. While in Dublin he spent a whole night in fervent prayer with about 20 young men. That next morning as they walked down a street one of them,  Henry “Butcher” Varley, said to him: “Moody, the world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him.” This one statement was to make a marked impact on his live. By God’s grace he would be that man. 

In June 1873 he arrived back in Liverpool, England, accompanied by his wife and song leader Ira Sankey. He was penniless, totally unknown and had no invitations to preach bar one. At first it was hard going but soon the fire fell which led to six weeks of powerful soul winning ministry. Next there came an invitation to Edinburgh, Scotland. On the first night at the first meeting 2,000 people had to be turned away from the already filled building. This great city was startled out of its sleep and stirred to its depths. Educated theologians sat at the feet of this untrained fire-brand. He left but revival continued. Next he moved to Belfast, then to Dublin for a month where several thousand responded to the gospel. These were some of the most remarkable meetings ever held in Ireland. In March 1875 he moved to London to start a four month campaign. Initially meetings were attended by about 16,000 people. It is estimated that a million and a half people heard him in this city. His whole life from beginning to end proves to what the Lord can accomplish through a weak, foolish, chosen vessel who utterly depends upon the Holy Spirit and who places rugged faith in the God of the
Bible. 

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William Booth: Man of Faith

12/1/2014

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William Booth (1829-1912) of England was born-again at the age of 14. At 17 years old he preached his first message in a cottage with a shoe box for a pulpit surrounded by women who thought him ‘quaint.’ He moved to London where he worked as a pawnbroker and preached in the open-air. He stepped out into full time ministry at 23. This lanky preacher who was over 6 foot tall preached with fire and urgency. In 1865 he started a mission, later called the Salvation Army, in East London with its population of 3 million people. A fire burned in his very bones. He frequently returned home from preaching late at night bruised and bleeding from being assaulted while preaching. He recruited his first Evangelists from amongst London’s 100,000 pubs, as well as from the brothel houses of the city frequently finding them literally in the gutter. With fiery Gospel preaching he dug sinners out of the hellish ditch in which they were born and lived. When he preached
sinners would kneel down on the mucky streets to repent of their sins or at the penitent pence in meetings. He expected sinners to cry hot tears of repentance and arise transformed by the power of God.  

By 1879 there were 81 stations manned by 127 Evangelists, a hundred of which were converted through him. These labourers were ridiculed, slandered, scorned and attacked. Wild mobs set their clothes on fire and poured hot tar and burning sulphur on them. Their stations were called barracks and they often had to board up all their windows as stones were hurled through them frequently. Prayer was the backbone of their whole work. By 1884 there was a total of about 900 corps of which 260 were in foreign lands. They had success but a success that normal Christianity did not want to imitate. It is estimated that in the first few years of the 1880’s about 250,000 souls came to old fashioned mourners benches seeking Christ as Saviour through the labours of these soldiers. By 1890 there were 2,900 corps. 

Booth inspired a radical form of Christianity that sacrificed all for Christ's service. Led by his example the Army invaded the worst, darkest and hardest areas of towns and cities. Because he wept hot tears in agonizing prayer, and broke and trembled over the reality of an eternal Hell he put fire and urgency in the hearts of those around him. All he touched caught fire. Even his young daughter went to France at 21 and impacted Paris with the Gospel. Booth, the old General, was “promoted to glory” in 1912. By this time the Army was active in 58 countries and colonies.

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Thomas Kelly: Man of Faith

5/1/2014

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Known as the Charles Wesley of Ireland because of the number of hymns he wrote, Thomas Kelly (1769-1855), was born in County Laois the only son of a judge. Thomas intended to follow in his father’s footsteps, and so
studied law at Trinity College, Dublin, and then in London. While completing his studies there, at age 23, Kelly was convicted of sin through studying the Hebrew Bible Concordance written by well-known, powerful English Evangelical preacher, William Romaine. Finding that all his efforts to reform were useless, Kelly at last obtained "peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ". 

Kelly abandoned the study of law and went home to become a clergyman in the Church of Ireland, but his radical preaching on ‘Justification by Faith’closed pulpits to him. He was considered, “too hot to handle and too
born-again to put up with”, so he left the Church of Ireland. But Kelly continued to preach the Gospel tirelessly for the remainder of his long
life.

At age 30 he married a born-again, Wicklow girl, from a very eminent family, a Miss Tighe. Their combined personal wealth allowed them to fund their ministry and the building of several chapels in Ireland (Wexford, Portarlington, Dublin and Athy) where Kelly preached. Congregations in the Chapels in Dublin and Athy, considered Kelly their Pastor. Kelly was a very popular preacher and crowds flocked to hear him wherever he went. 

During his more than 50 years in ministry, he also published hymns of which he wrote not only the lyrics but the music too. His hymns (765 in total) were most particularly popular within the “Brethren” movement. He was not only poet and musician, but a skilled linguist. 

Kelly was the friend of good men, and the advocate of every worthy cause. During the years of famine he used his personal wealth (often to his own peril) to save the lives of many families, particularly in the slums of
Dublin. Above all though, Thomas Kelly loved the Word of God and lived to do “all to the glory of God.” His peers were more impressed by his godliness than his poems, hymns or preaching. A contemporary journalist wrote of him, “Of all humble men, Mr Kelly seemed to be amongst the most humble.”  

While preaching at the advanced age of 85, he had a stroke and died the year following. His last words were, “Not my will but Thine be done”.

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