Swift and Beautiful: The Amazing Stories of Faithful Missionaries

Book Description:

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 Beautiful tells 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.'

Table of Contents:
1. John Eliot (1604-1690)
2. David Brainerd (1718-1747)
3. John Leighton Wilson (1809-1886)
4. David Livingstone (1813-1873)
5. Mary Slessor (1848-1915)
6. Samuel Norvell Lapsley (1866-1892)
7. William Henry Sheppard (1865-1927) and Lucy Grant Sheppard (1867-1940)
8. James A. Bryan (1863-1941)
9. Bob Childress (1890-1956)
10. Mary Beam (1911-2002) and Betty Cridland (1907-2003)

Author:

David B. Calhoun is a graduate of Columbia Bible College and Covenant Theological Seminary, and he earned two masters of theology degrees, including one from Covenant Seminary (Old Testament) and one from Princeton Theological Seminary (New Testament). He earned a doctor of philosophy degree from Princeton and serves as Emeritus Professor of Church History at Covenant Theological Seminary. He also served as a Presbyterian minister for more than 60 years. David Calhoun books include the two-volume Princeton Seminary Set. Volume 1 is titled Princeton Seminary, Faith & Learning 1812-1868, with volume 2 titled The Majestic Testimony 1869-1929. One review of this two-volume treasure calls it 'splendid' and 'thoroughly researched.' Calhoun also wrote Knowing God and Ourselves, created to help students read and understand the important but challenging John Calvin book, Institutes of the Christian Religion. More recently, he has published Pleading for a Reformation Vision with Banner of Truth Trust.

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