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John Jasper John Jasper 1812-1901 John Jasper was born a slave, the last of 24 children. He grew up on a plantation where he labored in the fields until he…

Melvin Ernest Trotter Melvin Ernest Trotter 1870-1940 Rescue mission worker. Mel Trotter was born in Orangeville, Illinois, the son of a godly mother and a drunken father. His mother tried…

Robert Pierce Shuler Robert Pierce Shuler 1880-1965 Robert Shuler was born August 4, 1880, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. At the age of nine, kneeling…

William Carey William Carey 1761-1834 The father of modern missions. William Carey was born at Northamptonshire, England, and became a cobbler at the age of 14. He studied privately on…

CAUGHT BY A TREE CAUGHT BY A TREE 2 Samuel 18:1-18 1 And David numbered the people that [were] with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds…

SAMSONS RIDDLE SAMSON'S RIDDLE Judges 13:25--14:1-19 25 And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol. 14:1 And…

THE BUTLER AND BAKER THE BUTLER AND BAKER Genesis 40 1 And it came to pass after these things, [that] the butler of the king of Egypt and [his] baker…

THE OIL WHICH PAID THE DEBT THE OIL WHICH PAID THE DEBT 2 Kings 4:1-7 1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the…