Christianity - Biographies

The History of the Church of Christ

by Joseph Milner Read by InTheDesert 5
It is certain, that from our Saviour's time to the present, there have ever been persons whose dispositions and lives have been formed by th…

Israel

by Frederick Brotherton Meyer Read by MaryAnn 4.6
An old-world story this! In its strange Eastern dress, it appears to be as remote from us as the garb of an Arab, or the barter of an Orien…

Twenty Years on Horseback

by William Marion Weekley Read by Will Shakespeare 4.2
William Weekley was graduate of Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky, and a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. From the au…

Blessed Edmund Campion

by Louise Imogen Guiney Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Saint Edmund Campion, S.J., (1540 – 1581) was an English Catholic Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry to the …

One of China's Scholars

by Mrs. Howard Taylor Read by MaryAnn 5
The first of two volumes telling the life story of Pastor Hsi, a Confucian scholar from Shanxi province in Northern China who became a Chris…

Raymond Lull

by Samuel Zwemer Read by AletheiaCharis 5
With his vast knowledge in a wide range of subjects, Raymond Lull was a Renaissance man before the time of the Renaissance. After encounteri…

The Apostles

by Ethan R. Longhenry 5
The good news of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, is a most compelling message.  Yet Jesus did not write anything down; everything we kno…

The Life of St. Paul

by James Stalker Read by Ron Altman 4.8
Born into privilege and highly educated by the most esteemed teacher of his time, Saul of Tarsus became a leading thinker among the Pharisee…

From Baca to Beulah

by Jennie Smith Read by TriciaG 4.5
Sequel to The Valley of Baca. This continues the personal account of Jennie Smith, who spent more than 20 years in pain, unable to walk, and…

War Memories of an Army Chaplain

by Henry C. Trumbull Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Henry Clay Trumbull was the Chaplain of the Tenth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers in the American Civil War. In this memoir, he gives his…

The Paradise, or Garden of the Holy Fathers

by Palladius Read by ancientchristian 5
The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who mainly lived in the Scetes desert of Egypt. The most famous was St.…

The King's Son

by Frederick William Bourne Read by Alan Chant 5
Billy Bray, was an unconventional Cornish preacher. He was born in 1794 in the village of Twelveheads, Cornwall, England. After leaving sch…

The Lives of the Fathers of the Eastern Deserts

by Richard Challoner Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Enlightening, profitable, edifying, inspiring – a few words to describe this collection of lives and sayings of the Desert Fathers and Mothe…

Rev. William P. Gale

by William Gale 5
Archive of the works by Rev. William P. Gale brought to you by Covenant People's Ministry Founder of the Ministry of Christ Church in Maripo…

De Smet's Letters and Sketches

by Fr. Pierre-Jean De Smet Read by Carol Pelster 4.5
In 1841 and 1842, Fr. Pierre-Jean DeSmet traversed the wide and wild American West to bring the gospel to the Flatheads, who had sent multip…

A Casket of Cameos

by Frank W. Boreham Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…

A Story of One Short Life

by Elisabeth G. Stryker Read by Larry Wilson 4.3
This is a brief biography of Samuel J. Mills who was instrumental in establishing the first missionary society in the United States, and als…

Scripture Characters

by Robert Smith Candlish Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Nineteen studies of figures from the Bible - some well-known and some obscure. The discourses were originally written as sermons and then re…

The Life that Counts

by Mrs. Howard Taylor Read by AletheiaCharis 5
Borden of Yale '09 is the inspiring biography of William Borden, a young American millionaire. During a trip around the world, Borden commit…

Silver Chimes in Syria

by William S. Nelson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
William S. Nelson, D.D., was appointed as a missionary to Syria by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, USA in 1888. I…

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