Felix Manz, is one of the founders and first martyr of the Swiss Brethren congregation in Zurich, Switzerland. his father was a canon of grossmunster church in Zurich. Felix was a scholor in Hebrew, Greek and Latin. When Ulrich Zwingli, a swiss Christian reformer, came to Zurich in 1519, Felix joined him enthusistically and became…
Bartholomew the Apostle – Martyr for Christ, Once bartholomew was sitting under a fig tree when his friend Philip came to see him. He said that he as seen the messaiah, as the prohpets as foretold. Bartholomew, who first refused to believe, on persuasion finally set out to see Jesus. BIO: Birth: 1st century AD…
Calvin Fairbank, The slave trade was rampant in the United States during the nineteenth century. According to the tax records of America, there were 32 lakh slaves and their worth was estimated to be 100 crores. Back then, the economy of America was very much dependent on the labor of its slaves. Therefore, anyone who…
Benjamin Schultze – Biography, It was Grundler who worked very closely with Ziegenbalg during his last days in his gospel ministry. Grundler prayed fevently, asking “God”, to provide people to faithfully carry out the duties of the church after his death. God answered his prayers by sending Benjamin Schultz along with his two other friends…
Ira David Sankey is a gospel singer and composer, known for his long association with Dwight L. Moody. Sankey was an amateur singer an church worker when Moody recruited him in 1870 after he heard him sing at a convention in Indiana. Until Moody’s death in 1899, the two campaigned together, where Moody preached, and…
