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Frank Jenner: Man of Faith

29/12/2013

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Frank Jenner (1903—1977) was born in England the son of a hotel pub owner who had previously been a sea captain. As he grew it was evident that he was a born rebel and utterly unruly. As a result at 12 years old during the First World War he was sent to work onboard a training ship geared for such young tear-a-ways. After the end of war upon his return to England he joined the Royal Navy but deserted in New York and joined the United States navy. In Australia he again deserted and after meeting and marrying a local girl he joined the Royal Australian navy. He was an addicted gambler through most of his navy life. 

In 1937 he heard the Gospel for the very first time from a group of Christians who were standing outside the local bank who were preaching in the open air. One of these men invited Frank to his home where he led him to Christ. When he returned home and told his wife what had happened she thought he was crazy but was later converted. The Lord soon placed a great burden on his heart for souls. In gratitude for all that Christ had worked in his own life he set himself to reach out to people with the Gospel. For the next 26 years he daily shared the Gospel with everyone and anyone he met and made a discipline of rising at 5am to pray. During the Second World War he would reach out to sailors on Saturday nights. He invited them home where he continued to share the Gospel with them. He always kept a pile of tracts in his pocket and most frequently went down to George Street in the centre of Sydney. He would approach people as they prepared to cross at the traffic lights and as he passed them a gospel tract he would ask “If you died within 24 hours, where would you be in eternity? Heaven or Hell?” Most often he never saw these same people again and only few stopped and talked with him who were then saved. Even though there seemed to be little fruit from this work Frank stayed faithful over the years in sowing the good seed of the Gospel. 

In 1953 a preacher tracked him down after coming across Christians in different cities and countries who told of this strange messenger on George Street who had been instrumental to their salvation. As the preacher told the 50 year old Frank these wonderful testimonies he wept with joy. Until this point he knew nothing of this fruit. Only after his death did the full story come to light of preachers and missionaries in various countries who received the Gospel from Frank who then went on to lead many others to Christ. 

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C.H. Spurgeon: Man of Faith

21/12/2013

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Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) was raised in a godly Christian family of puritan stock. He was an avid reader of solid Christian books and was an earnest seeker after a genuine conversion experience. However the forgiveness of sins and salvation seemed to evade him and his search frequently left him in a state of hopelessness and heaviness. One Sunday morning while on his way to his usual church, he was caught in a snowstorm which made him turn down a side-street where he took refuge inside an old Primitive Methodist church. Only a dozen people gathered. The preacher did not make it to the meeting so one of the old elders, a tradesman by profession, stood to preach an unprepared, un-eloquent, short message. Young Spurgeon aged 15 was converted as the old man spoke (1850). 
 
One year later he preached his first message in a little house meeting. Later that year he was ordained pastor of a small church in, Waterbeach. In April 1854—four years after his conversion and aged only 19—he was called to London to be the pastor of New Park Street Chapel. The congregation quickly outgrew their building so had to move to various music halls while they were building a new premises. In these venues Spurgeon frequently preached to audiences numbering more than 10,000. At the age of 22, Spurgeon was the most popular preacher of the day. In October 1857, he preached to more than 23,000 people at The Crystal Palace. His direct, simple and biblical message led great multitudes to salvation in Christ. In March 1861 they moved into their new building which held 5000 sitting and another 1000 standing. 
 
These were days of spiritual revival. From his youth he had put faith in God to save souls and God was faithful to give him a great harvest of souls. While Karl Marx was promoting his Communist Manifesto and Darwin his Origin of Species, Spurgeon was printing and sending his sermons weekly into the nation. These sermons still remain one of the all-time best selling series of writings ever published by anyone in all of history. He had seen genuine revival in his church and the nation but he lived long enough to watch a terrible spiritual decline in the nation and especially in his own denomination. Men began to deny the inspiration of the Bible, the creation, atonement by the blood and the need for conversion. He entered a spiritual battle with this encroaching apostasy that led to him leaving the Baptist association and to his early death of a broken heart. After his death the Baptist union placed a statue of Spurgeon at the entrance of their headquarters. By the time of his death he had preached nearly 3,600 sermons and published 49 volumes of commentaries. He truly deserves the title Prince of Preachers. 

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Smith Wigglesworth: Man of Faith

16/12/2013

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Smith Wigglesworth (1859-1947) of England, was known as the Apostle of Faith. Multitudes of people from many different nations were healed through his ministry from cancer, blindness and deafness as well as several raised from the dead. He had a bold and dynamic faith that moved every mountain. His greatest pleasure was to see thousands come to Christ and to be used in revivals in America, new Zealand and Australia. He was a man of prayer and faith who walked with God all his days. Many books have been written on his faith-filled life. 

He was born into a very poor, hardworking moral family. At age of 6 he worked all day long every day picking turnips; as a result he received no formal education. When he was 8 years old his firebrand grandmother took him to an old fashioned Methodist revival meeting. As the believers danced around a big stove, clapping and singing he looked with faith to the Lamb of Calvary and was born-again. He started his Christian life with one truth that would mark his whole life above all others “only believe.” The first person he led to his Saviour was his own mother. Even though he was not able to read, he always carried a New Testament in his pocket. He became a real winner of souls one-to-one but was unable to preach publically. It was his wife Polly who did all the preaching at their mission and who taught him to read. As a plumber during a bad Yorkshire winter he was kept busy with work and ended up spiritually cold and angry in a backslidden state. But his wife burnt brighter and eventually won him back to Christ. Now he won souls to Christ as he fixed their burst pipes. 

The first times he ever saw a sick person healed was when he was in his 40’s. He prayed for a crippled Scots man who was immediately healed to Smith’s great shock. In 1907, he travelled to meetings in Sunderland, seeking the baptism of the Holy Spirit; his wife was utterly sceptical. He received the baptism with the evidence of tongues and returned home on fire for God. His disbelieving wife said “you can prove it by preaching at the next meeting.” As he stood and preached with power Polly moved up and down the seat saying “That’s not my Smith.” One of his first campaigns was at a Lancashire factory with its 1000 workers. It was closed each afternoon and smith preached five times each day afternoon and evening. In 1914 he started to travel internationally preaching. His faith-filled message and boldness has affected the church ever since. He went to be with the Lord at the age of 87. 

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FANNY CROSBY: WOMAN OF FAITH

8/12/2013

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To be a writer of over 8,000 hymns, many of which have been translated in to countless languages, is not the claim of many, least of all of one who was blind for life. Fanny Crosby (1820–1915), was born with perfect sight but as an infant her eyes were irreparably damaged by the application of a hot poultice ‘remedy’. She could just make out the difference between light and dark but never saw the world, or any colour with her physical eyes. Her mother, and particularly her grandmother, imparted to little Fanny, a love for God’s Word. She proved to have an extraordinary intellect and memory, and by the age of 15 she had memorized most of the New Testament, all five books of Moses, the book of Ruth, many Psalms and selections of the Prophets. It was the language of the King James Bible and Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” that dominated her intellect and vocabulary.

A talented poet from the start, her first poem was published by age 11 and only a few years later she was one of the first young lady students at the very first Academy for the Blind in the USA in New York City. Fanny’s gift for poetry blossomed. She acknowledged God in all things and her lack of self-pity was evident to all who met her, but she had not yet had a vital meeting with the Saviour. When Fanny was 25, a young teacher at the Academy, Thedore Camp, spoke to her of intimate union with Christ and one night Fanny dreamt that Thedore invited her to meet him in Heaven, but she was forced to admit to herself that she was unfit to enter where, “nought that defileth ever can enter in”. Even so, it was not until 1850, at a Methodist Revival meeting, during the singing of a hymn, that she truly turned to serve the living God.

In 1858, Fanny married musician, (organist) Alexander van Alstyne, and together they settled down to write thousands of Hymns: she the words and he the music. Clearly God prepared this perfect duo for what was to be a busy number of years ahead as a mighty Revival came to their city, New York, in 1859. Through the years, Evangelists would commission her to write hymns for their campaigns. Not least of these was D.L. Moody whose famous song leader, Ira Sankey, sang more Fanny Crosby hymns than those of any one other writer. For someone who never saw colour, or the beauty of Earth, her hymns are filled with references to sunshine, beauty and colour. The realm of nature was real to her because of the reality of Christ, who was the sunshine in her soul.

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H.G. Guinness: Man of Faith

1/12/2013

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Henry Grattan Guinness (1835-1910), grandson of Arthur founder of the brewery, was born in Dublin in the year of Halley’s Comet. Both his mother and father had been widowed. His mother’s first husband was killed in a duel with Daniel O’Connell. His father, John Guinness, was converted late in life through the Wesleyan Methodists. He was the first in the family to abstain from alcohol. As a result of his conversion he withdrew from his partnership in the brewery. The young family moved to Cheltenham in England. At 14 years of age after the death of his father, Henry Grattan turned to drink in association with evil company to drown his sorrows. At 17, after a night of wrestling with God, he was converted to Christ. Three years later in the spring of 1855, he moved to county Tipperary as an assistant to a farmer. He spent much time in the woods seeking God in prayer. He began to preach in market places, fields and street corners. He stirred up the anger of the local priest who threatened him and preached against him. 

He returned to his mother in Cheltenham and went to Bible College in January 1856 but continued to spend every spare moment preaching and witnessing on street corners. After college he travelled England and was soon preaching to great crowds as an itinerant evangelist. He embarked on a three year preaching tour which took him half way round the world. In Wales at just one meeting 10,000 people responded to the call of repentance. In England and Scotland he preached in the pulpits of Whitefield, McCheyne and Haldane. Alongside C.H. Spurgeon and D.L. Moody, he was considered one of the greatest preachers of that generation. 

In February 1858 he arrived in Dublin and preached to great crowds which included ministers and members of parliament. His pointed gospel statements were published on the front page of the city’s newspapers. Then in Belfast he preached to great crowds with dynamic effect. The following year (1859) he was back in Belfast preaching in the open-air to crowds of 20-30,000 people. That was the year of the great Ulster revival when 100,000 souls turned to Christ. During the ’60s they lived in Limerick where Henry caused riots when he preached on the streets and was once beaten half to death. In 1872, he started a missionary institute in Dublin with just six students. After three years he had over 100 students and moved to London. In the first 30 years of the Institute 1500 young people were trained and sent out to the foreign mission-field. He started several different mission societies, wrote a number of classic books and raised a family of children who served God faithfully. 

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