Swift and Beautiful. The Amazing Stories of Faithful Missionaries by David Calhoun

Banner of Truth Trust, 2020. lfpb.  240pp.

In his Spiritual Unfolding of Bishop H. C. G. Moule, John Baird wrote, ‘No course of reading is more establishing than that of Christian biography — the battle story of those who in the conflict of earth have been great in the life of God.’ Swift and Beautifultells the amazing stories of a dozen men and women who at great cost gave their lives to take the gospel of God’s grace to those who had not heard it. Some of these faithful missionaries are well-known, others almost forgotten, but all are ‘great in the life of God.’

Foreword ix

John Eliot (1604-1690)

David Brainerd (1718-1747)

 John Leighton Wilson (1809-1886)

David Livingstone (1813-1873)

Mary Slessor (1848-1915)

 Samuel Norvell Lapsley (1866-1892)

William Henry Sheppard (1865-1927) and Lucy Grant Sheppard (1867-1940)

James A. Bryan (1863-1941)

Bob Childress (1890-1956)

Mary Beam (1911-2002) and Betty Cridland (1907-2003)

 A Prayer

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