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Randy Amos Sir Robert Anderson L. A. Anderson Colin Anderson Multiple Authors H. P. Barker Howard Barnes Donald G. Barnhouse David J. Beattie L. M. Bellett J. G. Bellett W. H. Bennet G. Fred Bergin Byron Berry John Bjorlie John Bloore Corrie ten Boom Andrew Borland E. M. Bounds John Bramhall E. H. Broadbent Cyril H. Brooks F. F. Bruce John Bunyan William Burnett Richard Burson John R. Caldwell Lewis Sperry Chafer J. Wilbur Chapman Robert C. Chapman C. A. Coates R. V. Court G. R. Cowell Henry Craik George Cutting Ingimar DeRidder Northcote Deck Edward Dennett John Trew Dickson Chester Donaldson Neil Dougal David Dunlap Maldwyn L. Edwards Robert Edwards Ellison Kevin L. Engle Kenneth Ercil Engle E. Schuyler English Art Farstad Franklin Ferguson George Ferrier Edwin Fesche William Fiess Robert Fitts Mike Fitzhugh Inglis Fleming John Foxe Samuel Trevor Francis Gordon Franz Neil Fraser Mark Frees John E. Frost Charles Fuller John Funk A. Fyfe Arno C. Gaebelein Robert Gessner Alfred P. Gibbs Jean Gibson T. B. Gilbert David Gooding George Goodman Montague Goodman F. W. Grant Anthony Norris Groves James Gunn Milton Haack Ernest G. Haines E. H. Hamilton R. Edward Harlow Roy Hill W. J. Hocking Zane Hodges Frank Holmes W. Hoste Steve Hulshizer J. H. Hutchison H. A. Ironside F. C. Jennings Harold St. John S. Lewis Johnson Douglas Jones Adoniram Judson Edward Judson Hugh Kane W. Phillip Keller Christopher Knapp Carl Knott Stewart Lavery Robert Lee Rudy F. Ponce de Leon William Lincoln Robert J. Little Paul E. Little Peter Lueling William MacDonald John MacPherson Alfred Mace Harold G. Mackay C. H. Mackintosh Alexander Marshall James G. McCarthy William J. McClure Jim McKendrick William J. McRae F. B. Meyer F. V. Mildred Andrew Miller D. L. Moody Thomas D. W. Muir George Müller James Naismith Thomas Newberry William R. Newell Paul Parmer Mark Peever William J. Pell Peter J. Pell J. Dwight Pentecost Henry "Hy" Pickering Arthur T. Pierson George Pinches Les Rainey W. Ross Rainey George Rainey A. Raleigh John Rankin Samuel Ridout John Ritchie A. C. Rose Charles W. Ross H. L. Rossier J. C. Ryle Charles C. Ryrie Adolph Saphir Vernon Schlief A. T. Schofield Walter Scott Michael Scotto Leonard Sheldrake Andrew Shelor A. T. Sherman Sadhu Sundar Singh Mahendra Singhal George Smith Daniel Smith James Smith W. G. Smith Hamilton Smith Dan Snaddon American Tract Society Edwin G. Spahr H. C. Spence C. H. Spurgeon James Stalker Miles J. Stanford Martin Staveley Andrew Stenhouse J. B. Stoney C. E. Stuart Ben Sutton Hudson Taylor Samuel Taylor Dr. & Mrs. Howard Taylor Herbert W. Taylor Friedrich August Tholuck W. H. Griffith Thomas Sam Thorpe R. A. Torrey A. W. Tozer William Trotter Ben Tuininga Author Unknown Jim Upton W. A. Upton Elliott VanRyn W. E. Vine John Walden George Walker William O. Walker John F. Walvoord George Watmough J. B. Watson Francis Wayland G. Christian Weiss Warren Wiersbe G. V. Wigram Joe Wilbur G. C. Willis T. Ernest Wilson Lester Wilson J. David Wilt W. T. P. Wolston

Randy Amos 1

Randy (Randal) Amos was a Bible teacher among the assemblies with a wide-ranging preaching, teaching and writing ministry. He travelled throughout the United States and Canada, and sometimes farther afield, and hundreds of his messages are preserved by Voices for Christ. His article 'The Deadliness of Discouragement' is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Sir Robert Anderson 3

Sir Robert Anderson (1841–1918) was born in Dublin and came to Christ during the Irish revival of 1860. A barrister, he served for many years at Scotland Yard, rising to head the Criminal Investigation Department, and was knighted. He wrote widely in defense of the Scriptures, including The Coming Prince and The Silence of God, and was known for being able to engage in controversy without being contentious.

L. A. Anderson 1

L. A. Anderson wrote for the Brethren magazine Scripture Truth. His article "Where Are They?", a call for godly and faithful men drawn from Psalm 12, first appeared there in 1960 and is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Colin Anderson 1

Colin Anderson is a Bible teacher among the assemblies who writes on the life of the local church. His papers published on plymouthbrethren.org include a study of assembly meeting places and what our buildings say about worship, and a call to renewal through humility, with practical counsel for elders and oversight.

Multiple Authors 1

Papers on plymouthbrethren.org listed under several writers; each paper names its writer where known.

H. P. Barker 1

Harold P. Barker (1869–1952) was an English evangelist and writer known for his gospel stories.

Howard Barnes 1

Howard Barnes served with the team that prepared Uplook, the assemblies' magazine, and planned the Rise Up and Build conference. His article "Keep in Touch," on prayer and worship as the Christian's great privilege, is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Donald G. Barnhouse 1

Donald Grey Barnhouse (1895–1960) was an American preacher, radio broadcaster and author, pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia.

David J. Beattie 2

David J. Beattie wrote on the history of the assemblies and on hymns and their writers, including Brethren: The Story of a Great Recovery (1940) and The Romance of Sacred Song.

L. M. Bellett 1

L. M. Bellett was the daughter of J. G. Bellett and wrote these recollections of her father's life.

J. G. Bellett 3

John Gifford Bellett (1795–1864) was a Dublin barrister who gave up his profession to give himself to the ministry of God's Word. He was among the first who met simply in the Lord's name in Dublin, and a close friend of J. N. Darby. His writings on the person and moral glory of the Lord Jesus are loved for their devotion to Christ.

W. H. Bennet 1

W. H. Bennet was a friend of Robert Cleaver Chapman in his later years and wrote Robert Cleaver Chapman of Barnstaple.

G. Fred Bergin 1

G. Fred Bergin worked with George Müller's orphan homes in Bristol and wrote the sequel to Müller's autobiography.

Byron Berry 1

Byron Berry wrote gospel tracts with a plain, personal appeal to the reader. His paper 'Is Your Name Written?', which shows from Scripture how a person can know for sure that their name is written in the Book of Life, is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

John Bjorlie 2

John Bjorlie came to Christ in 1972. In 1984 his home assembly in Valley City, North Dakota, commended him to the work of preaching Christ, and since then John and his wife Ann have served in evangelism, church planting and Bible teaching. His short biographies of Brethren leaders first appeared in Uplook magazine.

John Bloore 1

John Bloore (born 1879) was a Bible teacher and writer among the Brethren. His books include Modernism and Its Re-Statement of Christian Doctrine (1923), The Man Christ Jesus (1927) and Christian Unity. In Alternative Views of the Bible (Macmillan, 1925) he answered the modern critical view of Scripture.

Corrie ten Boom 1

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) was a Dutch Christian whose family hid Jews from the Nazis in their Haarlem home; she survived Ravensbrück concentration camp and spent her later years travelling the world as an evangelist, telling her story in The Hiding Place. In Common Sense Not Needed (1957) she describes her pre-war Bible class for mentally disabled people who could not attend church.

Andrew Borland 1

Andrew Borland was a Bible teacher and writer among the assemblies.

E. M. Bounds 2

Edward McKendree Bounds (1835–1913) was an American Methodist minister from Missouri who trained in law, served as a Confederate chaplain during the Civil War, and later pastored, preached widely and helped edit the Christian Advocate. He is remembered for his classic books on prayer, among them Power Through Prayer and The Necessity of Prayer.

John Bramhall 1

John Bramhall was a Bible teacher among the assemblies whose devotional papers center on the person and love of Christ.

E. H. Broadbent 1

E. H. Broadbent (1861–1945) was an English missionary among the assemblies, best known for his history The Pilgrim Church.

Cyril H. Brooks 2

Cyril H. Brooks served for many years as a missionary in the Philippines, from pioneer days in Manila and San Juan through the Japanese occupation and internment to the post-war growth of the assemblies and the Bible School of the Air. His autobiography, Grace Triumphant, is here in full. He was a fellow-worker of Ken and Mary Lou Engle.

Grace Triumphant

Cyril H. Brooks · n.d. · 336 pages

Cyril Brooks's own story: World War I, his call to the Philippines, pioneer work in Manila and San Juan, internment under the Japanese, and the post-war growth of the assemblies, the Bible School of the Air and camp work, with his fellow-workers in the gospel.

Missions Biography Philippines

F. F. Bruce 1

F. F. Bruce (1910–1990) was a Scottish New Testament scholar, long Rylands Professor at the University of Manchester, who was in fellowship with the assemblies.

John Bunyan 1

John Bunyan (1628–1688) was an English Puritan preacher and writer from Bedfordshire, a tinker by trade, who spent about twelve years in Bedford jail for preaching without a licence. During his imprisonments he wrote much of The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), the allegory of Christian's journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, which became one of the most widely read books in the English language.

William Burnett 1

William Burnett ministered the Word while travelling among the assemblies. His papers on corporate worship and the Lord's Supper, on the danger of fragmentation in the local church, and on godly conduct under persecution are published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Richard Burson 1

Richard Burson wrote on Christian marriage, the home and the believer's walk.

John R. Caldwell 3

John R. Caldwell (1839–1917) of Glasgow was a Bible teacher among the assemblies and for many years editor of The Witness magazine.

Things to Come

John R. Caldwell · n.d. · 118 pages

A short outline of the great events of prophecy: the Lord's coming for His saints, the tribulation, the appearing, the millennium and the eternal state.

Prophecy

Lewis Sperry Chafer 1

Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871–1952), born in Rock Creek, Ohio, was a Bible teacher, conference speaker and writer, and the founder of Dallas Theological Seminary. His books include Grace, He That Is Spiritual and an eight-volume Systematic Theology.

J. Wilbur Chapman 1

J. Wilbur Chapman (1859–1918) was an American Presbyterian evangelist and hymn writer.

Robert C. Chapman 1

Robert Cleaver Chapman (1803–1902) was born in Denmark to English parents, trained as a lawyer in London, and after his conversion gave himself to the Lord's work in Barnstaple, Devon, for some seventy years. Spurgeon called him the saintliest man he ever knew, and J. N. Darby said of him, "He lives what I teach." His aim was not so much to preach Christ as to live Christ.

C. A. Coates 1

C. A. Coates (1862–1945) was an English Bible teacher among the Brethren, known for his Outlines of the books of Scripture.

R. V. Court 1

R. V. Court wrote short practical papers for believers among the assemblies. His studies on giving, on humility and on relations with our brethren, all drawing on the example of Christ, are published on plymouthbrethren.org.

G. R. Cowell 1

G. R. Cowell wrote ministry for young believers among the brethren. His short paper 'The Choice of a Career' teaches that the Christian, bought with a price, has one true business in life, to do the will of God, and urges young people to wait on the Lord about their earthly calling; it is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Henry Craik 1

Henry Craik (1805–1866) was a Scottish Bible scholar and preacher who labored with George Müller at Bethesda Chapel in Bristol.

George Cutting 1

George Cutting (1843–1934) was an English evangelist whose tract Safety, Certainty, and Enjoyment has been printed in many languages.

Ingimar DeRidder 3

Ingimar DeRidder was born in 1946 and came to Christ after serving in Vietnam. Telling others how he found peace led to preaching, church planting, inner-city ministry and directing a Bible institute. In 1992 North Raleigh Chapel in Raleigh, North Carolina, commended him to the Lord's work; he served there as a resident worker for ten years before going into full-time itinerant ministry.

Northcote Deck 1

Dr. Northcote Deck was a medical missionary in the South Pacific and a Bible teacher.

Edward Dennett 2

Edward Dennett (1831–1914) was an English Bible teacher and writer among the Brethren, known for his clear, pastoral expositions.

John Trew Dickson 2

John Trew Dickson wrote the lives of the evangelists William J. McClure and John Knox McEwen.

Chester Donaldson 1

Chester Donaldson wrote for Food for the Flock, a magazine of ministry for the assemblies founded in 1955 with James Gunn as its first editor. His article "Joy," from the December 1963 issue, is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Neil Dougal 1

Neil Dougal was a Scottish evangelist and Bible teacher who ministered for many years among the assemblies in North America, where he was based in Massachusetts. Hundreds of his recorded messages survive, and his articles, including 'Balanced', 'Christian Service' and 'The Preacher', appeared in the assemblies' magazine Food for the Flock between 1955 and 1963.

David Dunlap 1

David Dunlap is in full-time ministry in Land O' Lakes, Florida, and edits the publication Bible & Life (bibleandlife.org).

Articles by David Dunlap

David Dunlap · n.d. · 305 pages

Forty-three articles: expository and doctrinal preaching, the eternal Sonship of Christ, Israel and the church, the imminent return of Christ, elders, reverence in the assembly, the Lord's Supper, evangelism, and current errors.

Church Doctrine Preaching

Maldwyn L. Edwards 1

Maldwyn Lloyd Edwards (1903–1974) was a British Methodist minister and historian, born in Liverpool, who entered the ministry in 1926. A leading scholar of John Wesley and Methodism, he wrote John Wesley and the Eighteenth Century and served as President of the Methodist Conference in 1961–1962.

Robert Edwards Ellison 1

Robert Edwards Ellison, a seventh-generation grandson of Jonathan Edwards, prepared this short biography of his famous ancestor. It traces Edwards’s life from his birth in Connecticut in 1703 to his death at Princeton in 1758, as a preacher who joined deep learning with gospel zeal.

Kevin L. Engle 1

Kevin L. Engle, the son of missionaries Ken and Mary Lou Engle, grew up in the Philippines. A Navy veteran with a psychology degree from the University of Texas at Dallas, he was Executive Director of Stewards Foundation (1994–2010) and for many years served as a lay preacher and elder in the assemblies. He started plymouthbrethren.org in 2004, and today gives his time to missions, research and writing through KEE Philippine Missions.

Kenneth Ercil Engle 1

Kenneth Ercil (Ken) Engle was a missionary to the Philippines from 1951 to 1975. Having flown over the islands in a B-24 during World War II, he studied at Moody Bible Institute, worked in radio at WMBI, and joined Cyril Brooks in Manila in 1951; he and Mary Lou Leonard were married in San Juan. Their story is told in the series Lord, Give Us This Mountain.

E. Schuyler English 1

E. Schuyler English (1899–1981) was a Bible teacher, editor and author, and chairman of the committee that produced the New Scofield Reference Bible. His biography of H. A. Ironside, Ordained of the Lord, is drawn from Ironside's own diaries.

Art Farstad 1

Arthur L. Farstad (1935–1998) was born in Yonkers, New York, and studied at Emmaus Bible School, Washington Bible College and Dallas Theological Seminary, where he taught Greek. He was executive editor of the New King James Version, co-editor with Zane Hodges of The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text, and editor of the Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society. He began a new translation, Logos 21, and finished the Gospel of John before going home to the Lord in Dallas on September 1, 1998.

Franklin Ferguson 2

Franklin Ferguson was a New Zealand writer among the assemblies, based in Palmerston North, who for some thirty years edited The Treasury, a monthly magazine for ministry of the Word. His widely read booklets included The Church of God, The Lord Is Coming and Selections of Ministry, which ran to thirteen free editions.

George Ferrier 1

George Ferrier is a Canadian Bible teacher who has preached since 1996 and was commended to full-time ministry by Bridlewood Bible Chapel, Ontario, in 2013. He teaches widely in North America and overseas, edits Cornerstone magazine and has written for Precious Seed, Counsel and Choice Gleanings.

Edwin Fesche 1

Edwin Fesche wrote for many years on world events in the light of Scripture, as well as Bible studies and sketches of early Brethren teachers.

William Fiess 1

William Fiess wrote on the assurance of salvation. His paper 'Eternal Security' shows from the words of the Lord Jesus that eternal life is a free gift that can never be lost, received from the moment a person believes; it is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Robert Fitts 1

Robert (Bob) Fitts Sr. was a Texas-born pastor, missionary, evangelist and writer who in 1970 founded Outreach Fellowship International to send teams abroad for evangelism and church planting. A champion of simple house churches, he lived in Kona, Hawaii, with his wife Joni and wrote The Church in the House and Saturation Church Planting.

Mike Fitzhugh 1

Mike Fitzhugh writes on Bible prophecy and the Lord's return. His article "Getting a Grip on Prophecy," which commends the Dictionary of Premillennial Theology as a guide for students of the Scriptures, is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Inglis Fleming 1

Inglis Fleming was an English evangelist and Bible teacher among the Brethren.

John Foxe 1

John Foxe (1516–1587) was an English Protestant clergyman and historian, born in Boston, Lincolnshire. His Acts and Monuments, first published in English in 1563 and known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, recounts the sufferings of Christian martyrs and was treasured in English homes for generations, second only to the Bible.

Samuel Trevor Francis 1

Samuel Trevor Francis (1834–1925) was an English hymn writer and evangelist among the Brethren, author of O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus.

Gordon Franz 9

Gordon Franz has served as a field trip instructor at the Institute of Holy Land Studies in Jerusalem and in the Israel Biblical Extension (IBEX) program of The Master's College, and co-teaches the Talbot School of Theology's Bible Lands Program. He has taken part in archaeological excavations in Israel, in and around Jerusalem and at Tel Lachish, Tel Jezreel and Hazor.

Neil Fraser 1

Neil Fraser was a Bible teacher among the assemblies. His study “Four Lessons About God’s Word From Chapter Three, Verse Sixteen” is adapted from an article that appeared in the magazine Knowing the Scriptures in 1936, and is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Mark Frees 1

Mark Frees pastored churches in a major American denomination for six years before his study of the New Testament led him, in 1990, to resign his pastorate in rural Mississippi and gather with a simple assembly of believers. He tells that story in "What I Have Found" and also wrote the booklet Is the One-Pastor System Scriptural?

John E. Frost 1

John E. Frost wrote the history “Brook Street Chapel – Tottenham – London,” which traces one of the earliest Brethren assemblies, opened in 1839 by John Eliot Howard and his brother Robert, and its long links with Hudson Taylor and missionary work. The article is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Charles Fuller 1

Charles E. Fuller (1887–1968) was an American radio evangelist (The Old Fashioned Revival Hour) and founder of Fuller Theological Seminary.

John Funk 1

John Funk was a chartered accountant and business consultant in St. Catharines, Ontario, who led a Young Believers' Bible Class in his home assembly and served as Secretary to the Board of Food for the Flock Inc. His short studies, including a series on how we got our Bible, first appeared in the magazine Food for the Flock.

A. Fyfe 1

A. Fyfe wrote devotional papers for the magazine Knowing the Scriptures. His article "A Call to Humility," first printed there in the September–October 1935 issue, draws on the examples of Moses and Gideon to warn against spiritual pride, and it is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Arno C. Gaebelein 1

Arno C. Gaebelein (1861–1945) was a German-born American Bible teacher and writer on prophecy, editor of Our Hope magazine.

Robert Gessner 2

Robert Gessner's articles on Christian living, the death of Christ and the New Testament church are published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Alfred P. Gibbs 7

Alfred P. Gibbs (1890–1967) was born in Birmingham, England, and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. After serving as a chaplain in World War I he studied at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and gave his life to gospel preaching and teaching young believers, serving part time for many years with Emmaus Bible School. He never married, wrote hymns still sung in the assemblies, and was best loved for his work with children.

Jean Gibson 12

Otis Jean Gibson (1921–2006) came to Christ in 1946 after serving with the U.S. Marines in World War II. After years in business he became a full-time preacher in 1973 and, with William MacDonald, started the Discipleship Intern Training Program (DITP) at Fairhaven Bible Chapel in San Leandro, California, which trained more than two hundred young leaders, many now on the mission field. His training manuals have been printed in more than thirty languages. More on William MacDonald, Jean Gibson and the DITP in Lord, Give Us This Mountain

T. B. Gilbert 1

Thomas Bruce Gilbert was an American evangelist among the assemblies who entered full-time Gospel work in 1917 at the age of 24, beginning in Wheatfield, Indiana. He planted and strengthened assemblies across the Midwest, Southwest and Tennessee, preached by radio from Tucson, and his life is told in Donald Norbie's biography of him.

David Gooding 1

David W. Gooding (1925–2019) was for many years Professor of Old Testament Greek at Queen's University, Belfast, and a Bible teacher among the assemblies in Northern Ireland and around the world. His expositions of Scripture, careful and warm, are still widely read.

George Goodman 1

George Goodman (1866–1942) was an English Bible teacher among the Brethren, born at Mile End in London, remembered especially for his devoted work among young people. He wrote many books and booklets, including The Epistle of Eternal Life, The Gospel We Preach and Seventy Best Bible Stories.

Montague Goodman 1

Montague Goodman (1876–1954) was an English lawyer and evangelist among the assemblies.

F. W. Grant 17

Frederick William Grant (1834–1902) was born in Putney, London, and came to faith as a young man reading the Bible privately. At twenty-one he went to Canada and was ordained an Anglican priest, but through literature from a believing pharmacist he came to the truths taught among the assemblies and left the Church of England around 1860. He lived in Toronto, then Brooklyn and Plainfield, New Jersey, with his wife and four children. His seven-volume Numerical Bible lay on C. I. Scofield's desk beside Darby's Synopsis, and Spurgeon praised Facts and Theories as to a Future State, perhaps his most important work. Samuel Ridout said his place in the hearts of the saints rested on his identification with the Word of God. He grieved over division among believers.

The Crowned Christ

F. W. Grant · n.d. · 131 pages

The glories of the Lord Jesus: His deity, the eternal Son, the Word made flesh, Son of Man, last Adam, Priest, Advocate, King, Head of the body and Bridegroom.

Christ Doctrine

Anthony Norris Groves 1

Anthony Norris Groves (1795–1853), a dentist from Exeter, became the first missionary of the early Brethren, serving in Baghdad and India, and is often called the father of faith missions.

James Gunn 10

James Gunn (1900–1982) served the Lord full time for more than sixty years, first as a missionary in Venezuela and then as a Bible teacher across Canada and the United States. He edited Food for the Flock magazine from its first issue in 1955, and in 1974 handed the editorship to W. Ross Rainey, whom he had encouraged to write. His wife bore multiple sclerosis for over forty years. He went home to be with Christ on November 27, 1982, at Unionville, Ontario; Dr. James T. Naismith and T. Ernest Wilson spoke at his funeral at Don Valley Bible Chapel, Toronto, where he had been in fellowship in his last years.

Articles by James Gunn

James Gunn · n.d. · 180 pages

Thirty-seven articles: Bible study and memory, the church local and universal, the incarnation and virgin birth, prayer, the permissive society, and tributes to Guy Cesar, Thomas Goodall Wilkie, Ormer Sprunt and his own teacher.

Christian Life Church Bible Study

The Bible

James Gunn · n.d. · 160 pages

Nineteen studies on the Scriptures: divine revelation, inspiration, the canon, and how the Bible came to us.

Bible Doctrine

Coming World Crises

James Gunn · n.d. · 103 pages

Studies in Bible prophecy: how to study it, its terms, and the events ahead for the church, Israel and the nations. Parts 6 to 11 are not on plymouthbrethren.org.

Prophecy

I Will Build My Church

James Gunn · n.d. · 141 pages

Twelve chapters on the church: the church universal and local, leadership and government, baptism and the Lord's Supper, the priesthood of all believers, spiritual gifts, women in the church, and discipline.

Church Doctrine

Milton Haack 2

Milton Haack grew up in a religious home in Minnesota but had no assurance of salvation. Serving on PT boats in the U.S. Navy in World War II, he was saved on the island of Samar in the Philippines, and he loved the Filipino people from then on. In 1958 he and his wife Marge sailed for the Philippines with their two young children, and over thirty-one years there the Lord established seventeen New Testament churches, now carrying on without foreign help. In 1990 they returned to Minnesota for medical care, where he went on preaching and teaching and made yearly trips back to the Philippines.

Ernest G. Haines 1

Ernest G. Haines

Ernest G. Haines (1871–1961) was born on December 7, 1871, and was converted at nineteen in England, where he met with the assemblies at Bruce Grove Hall and Brook Street Chapel, Tottenham. He came to the United States in 1910, lived in Cincinnati, and from 1918 helped manage the Canonsburg Steel and Iron Works in Pennsylvania until he retired in 1945. He and his wife had three daughters, Mary, Avril and Freda. “Dad Haines” was Mary Lou Engle's grandfather and Kevin Engle's great-grandfather; he went home to the Lord on January 1, 1961, a week after seeing his great-grandchildren from Manila at Christmas. More coming soon: many more of his writings, including his gospel tracts, will be added to the library.

E. H. Hamilton 1

E. H. Hamilton was an American Southern Presbyterian missionary in China, based at Suchowfu in Kiangsu province, and a friend of Betty Stam's missionary parents. He wrote the poem "Afraid? Of What?" after the martyrdom of his colleague John W. Vinson, and in 1935 wrote Not Worthy to Be Compared, the story of John and Betty Stam and their baby Helen Priscilla.

R. Edward Harlow 2

Robert Edward Harlow, who died in 2003 at the age of 94, was a missionary to the Belgian Congo who returned to Toronto to help found Emmaus Bible School with John Smart and Ernest Tatham in 1941. He later founded Everyday Publications and wrote more than 50 books of plain Bible teaching.

Roy Hill 1

Roy Hill, of Bristol, England, wrote for the assemblies on their life and future. His 2005 article “What is Happening to UK Assemblies?” looks at the decline of assemblies in Britain and calls for pastoral care, sound teaching and personal devotion to Christ; it is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

W. J. Hocking 1

W. J. Hocking (1864–1953) was an English Bible teacher and editor of The Bible Monthly.

Zane Hodges 1

Zane C. Hodges (1932–2008) taught New Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary for many years and wrote widely on the gospel of grace.

Frank Holmes 1

Frank Holmes wrote Brother Indeed (1956), the first full life of Robert Cleaver Chapman.

W. Hoste 1

William Hoste (1861–1938) was an English Bible teacher and editor of Believer's Magazine.

Steve Hulshizer 1

Steve Hulshizer writes on assembly life and Christian living.

J. H. Hutchison 1

J. H. Hutchison wrote devotional papers for the magazine Knowing the Scriptures. His article "Conformation or Transformation," first printed there in the March–April 1936 issue, urges believers not to be conformed to this world but transformed, and it is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

H. A. Ironside 53

Harry A. Ironside (1876–1951) was born in Toronto and came to Christ as a boy. He preached first with the Salvation Army, then for many years among the assemblies known as Brethren, and from 1930 to 1948 was pastor of the Moody Memorial Church in Chicago. He preached and wrote across North America and beyond, and his expository books on nearly every book of the Bible are still read today. He went home to the Lord in New Zealand in 1951.

F. C. Jennings 4

F. C. Jennings was a Bible teacher among the Brethren whose expositions of Isaiah, Ecclesiastes and the letters to the seven churches were widely read.

Harold St. John 1

Harold St. John (1876–1957) was an English Bible teacher among the assemblies, known as a gifted expositor and traveling preacher.

S. Lewis Johnson 1

Dr. S. Lewis Johnson (1915–2004) taught for many years at Dallas Theological Seminary and was a Bible teacher at Believers Chapel in Dallas, Texas. Many of his messages are at believerschapeldallas.org.

Douglas Jones 1

Douglas Jones is the author behind “Unquenching the Spirit,” a short piece drawn from Patriarch magazine (1996) that sets out, point by point from Scripture, the reasons he felt he had to leave the charismatic movement. It is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Adoniram Judson 1

Adoniram Judson (1788–1850), pioneer missionary to Burma, was the son of a Congregational minister and graduated first in his class from Brown University. He helped form the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1810, sailed east with his wife Ann in 1812, and spent nearly forty years in Burma, where he translated the whole Bible into Burmese and compiled a Burmese dictionary. His life is told in Francis Wayland's two-volume Memoir and in The Life of Adoniram Judson by his son Edward, both in this library.

Edward Judson 1

Edward Judson (1844–1914), son of Adoniram and Sarah Boardman Judson, was born in Maulmain, Burma. He became a Baptist pastor in New York City, where he built the Judson Memorial Church in Washington Square in his father's memory. His Life of Adoniram Judson appeared in 1883.

Hugh Kane 1

Hugh Kane was a Baptist pastor in New York State for eighteen years before leaving his salaried ministry to gather simply to the Lord's name and trust God alone for his needs. In 'A Return to First Principles: Seven Reasons Why' he explains from Scripture why he made that step; the booklet is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

W. Phillip Keller 1

W. Phillip Keller (1920–1997) grew up in East Africa, the son of missionaries, and worked as an agrologist and sheep rancher in Canada before becoming a lay preacher and writer. His best-known book is A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23.

Articles by W. Phillip Keller

W. Phillip Keller · n.d. · 4 pages

One paper: The Shepherd and His Staff, on Psalm 23:4. (On plymouthbrethren.org it is filed under Phil Clarkson; the same text is credited elsewhere to Phillip Keller, and its memories of shepherds in Africa and the Middle East are his.)

Christian Life

Christopher Knapp 2

Christopher Knapp was born on June 6, 1870, to German immigrant parents near Albany, New York. At nineteen he went to South Bend, Indiana, to study for the Presbyterian ministry, and there, through a friend at the YMCA, came to know the Lord Jesus as his Saviour. He became a Bible teacher and writer among the assemblies.

Carl Knott 1

Carl Knott (born 1951) is an American Bible teacher and missionary, a former Air Force pilot from North Carolina who was saved in 1975. After working alongside William MacDonald, he was commended in 1986 to missionary work in Spain, where he and his wife Ruth serve near Seville and he runs a free literature ministry.

Stewart Lavery 1

Stewart Lavery wrote gospel and Bible-study papers for the assemblies’ magazine Food for the Flock. His articles “The Evangelist and the Ethiopian” (1968) and “The Meaning of The Message,” on John 3:16, are published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Robert Lee 1

Robert Lee wrote devotional ministry from the Old Testament prophets. His meditation 'Is the Lord a Wilderness to You?', on the searching questions of Jeremiah 2, was included in the anthology What a Friend We Have in Jesus, edited by J. B. Nicholson, and is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Rudy F. Ponce de Leon 1

Rudy F. Ponce de Leon (born 1939), known to many as Kuya Rudy, wrote Thinking of Jesus in the Breaking of Bread, sample devotionals to help believers remember the Lord at His Supper. He is part of the Engle family's story in the series Lord, Give Us This Mountain.

William Lincoln 10

William Lincoln (1825–1888) was an evangelical clergyman of the Church of England and minister of Beresford Chapel, Walworth, in south London. In 1862 he left the Church of England, and the congregation continued with him as an assembly gathered to the Lord's name alone. He was much valued as a Bible teacher, and his lectures on the epistles and on the church were widely read.

Robert J. Little 1

Robert J. Little was the author of Here's Your Answer (Moody Press, 1967), a book giving Bible-based answers to questions Christians ask. His short answers on subjects such as capital punishment and whether dancing is a sin are adapted from that book and published on plymouthbrethren.org by permission.

Paul E. Little 1

Paul E. Little (1928–1975) was an American evangelist with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, author of Know Why You Believe and How to Give Away Your Faith.

Peter Lueling 1

Peter Lueling prepared the Disciple's Manual Study Guide, a workbook of questions for personal or group study of William MacDonald's book The Disciple's Manual. It was written to help believers put MacDonald's teaching on discipleship and assembly life into daily practice.

William MacDonald 4

William MacDonald (1917–2007) was a Bible teacher and author of 84 books, among them the Believer's Bible Commentary and True Discipleship. He taught at Emmaus Bible School and was its president from 1959 to 1965, then taught in the Discipleship Intern Training Program in San Leandro, California, from 1973 to 1996. In 1950 he gave Ken Engle a card of churches to visit about his vision for the Philippines, and later invited him to teach at Emmaus. More on William MacDonald, Jean Gibson and the DITP in Lord, Give Us This Mountain

Christ Loved the Church

William MacDonald · n.d. · 96 pages

MacDonald's classic study of the church as the body of Christ and the local assembly: its headship, elders, discipline, worship and service.

© William MacDonald

Church

John MacPherson 1

John MacPherson wrote devotional verse for the Lord's people. His poems 'He Is Worthy', based on Revelation 5:11–12 and written for the remembrance of the Lord at His supper, and 'Precious Moments', which looks forward to the Lord's coming, are published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Alfred Mace 1

Alfred Mace (1854–1944) was an English evangelist and Bible teacher among the Brethren, born in Norwich, who in his early years worked alongside men such as J. N. Darby, William Kelly and C. H. Mackintosh. He later travelled widely through the English-speaking world, and his Addresses, given in Toronto in 1942 for young believers, were published by Loizeaux Brothers.

Addresses

Alfred Mace · n.d. · 162 pages

Ten addresses: the three calls of Peter, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, God manifested in the flesh, the Bridegroom with you, and more.

Gospel Christ Christian Life

Harold G. Mackay 1

Harold G. Mackay (1907–1993) was a Canadian-born evangelist and Bible teacher among the assemblies, from Galt, Ontario. From 1928 he pioneered gospel work in North Carolina and West Virginia, settling in the Greensboro area, where he preached widely, spoke on radio and wrote Assembly Distinctives.

C. H. Mackintosh 6

Charles Henry Mackintosh (1820–1896) was born in County Wicklow, Ireland. After a time in business in Limerick he opened a school at Westport, then gave it up in 1853 to give himself to preaching and writing. He was active in the Irish Revival of 1859–60 and for some forty years edited the magazine Things New and Old. He is best known for his Notes on the Pentateuch and his Miscellaneous Writings, read by Christians of many backgrounds.

Alexander Marshall 1

Alexander Marshall (1846–1928) was a Scottish evangelist among the assemblies, whose booklet God's Way of Salvation has been printed in millions of copies.

James G. McCarthy 2

Jim McCarthy grew up in San Francisco in a devout Roman Catholic family that had come from Ireland. He and his wife Jean came to Christ in their early twenties through a home Bible study. In 1981 he helped found Good News for Catholics to bring the gospel to Catholic people. He produced the video Catholicism: Crisis of Faith and wrote The Gospel According to Rome, Letters Between a Catholic and an Evangelical, and What You Need to Know About Roman Catholicism. He knew William MacDonald well, and his portrait of him is in the articles here.

William J. McClure 1

William J. McClure (1857–1941) was an Irish-born evangelist and Bible teacher among the assemblies, from County Down, who was awakened to his need of Christ during the 1874 revival. He preached for many years in Canada and the United States and travelled to South Africa, New Zealand and Australia; his Lectures on the Tabernacle, given in America, Australia and Belfast, were published by John Ritchie.

Jim McKendrick 1

Jim McKendrick writes short articles on Christian growth, books and the life of the assembly.

William J. McRae 1

William J. McRae was a Canadian Bible teacher, born and raised in Toronto, who trained at Emmaus Bible School and Dallas Theological Seminary. After years as a school teacher and in pastoral and teaching ministry, including Believers Chapel in Dallas from 1966 to 1975, he served as president of Ontario Bible College and Ontario Theological Seminary from 1983 to 1991.

F. B. Meyer 4

Frederick Brotherton Meyer (1847–1929) was a London-born Baptist pastor, Bible teacher, evangelist and author. His friendship with D. L. Moody, begun at Priory Street Chapel in York, shaped his ministry. At Christ Church, London, his congregation grew from about 100 to over 2,000, and he later preached at conferences and on missions around the world. His motto was, “Make the most of me that can be made for Thy glory.”

F. V. Mildred 1

F. V. Mildred wrote devotional papers on the Christian life. The article 'Heart Cry' looks at prayer as the deepest instinct of the human soul and at the Lord Jesus, who lived on earth in constant touch with the throne of God; it is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Andrew Miller 1

Andrew Miller (1810–1883) was a Scottish-born London businessman and Bible teacher among the Brethren, author of Short Papers on Church History.

D. L. Moody 1

Dwight Lyman Moody (1837–1899), born in Northfield, Massachusetts, was a shoe salesman in Boston and Chicago who became one of the best-known evangelists of the nineteenth century, preaching to great crowds in America and Britain and founding the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.

Thomas D. W. Muir 1

Thomas Donald William Muir (1855–1931), born in Ormstown, Quebec, was a pioneer gospel evangelist among the assemblies. He was converted in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1874 and moved to Detroit in 1880. In 56 years of evangelism he labored throughout Michigan, where a tent work in Detroit's Corktown grew into Central Gospel Hall.

George Müller 1

George Müller (1805–1898) cared for more than ten thousand orphans in Bristol, trusting God alone in prayer for every need.

James Naismith 1

Dr. James T. Naismith of Toronto was a Bible teacher among the assemblies and a friend of James Gunn, at whose funeral he spoke in 1982.

Thomas Newberry 2

Thomas Newberry (1811–1901) was an English Bible scholar best known for The Englishman's Bible.

William R. Newell 3

William Reed Newell (1868–1956), once assistant superintendent of Moody Bible Institute, was an author, Bible teacher and evangelist. D. L. Moody appointed him to teach weekly Bible classes in Chicago, Detroit, Toronto and St. Louis, where he grounded many believers in the gospel of grace. He also wrote the hymn "At Calvary."

Paul Parmer 1

Paul Parmer writes for young believers and campers. His story "Overcoming that 'After Camp Spiritual Dive,'" about keeping close to the Lord in the months after a summer at Bible camp, is published on plymouthbrethren.org by permission of the author.

Mark Peever 1

Mark Peever is a Christian writer who has been influenced by the early Brethren writers. His "Summary of Some of the 'Chief Men' among the Brethren," published on plymouthbrethren.org, gives short sketches of J. N. Darby, J. B. Stoney, William Kelly, J. G. Bellett and others, with suggestions of their writings to read.

William J. Pell 1

William J. Pell wrote Bible study outlines for believers. His study "Water in the Wilderness," published on plymouthbrethren.org, traces Israel's journey from Shur and Marah to the wells of Elim as pictures of God's provision for His people.

Peter J. Pell 2

Peter J. Pell Jr. prepared weekly Bible class lessons for young believers, published by Gospel Folio Press.

J. Dwight Pentecost 1

J. Dwight Pentecost (1915–2014) was an American theologian at Dallas Theological Seminary, author of Things to Come.

Henry "Hy" Pickering 1

Henry Pickering (1858–1941) was a Scottish publisher and editor of The Witness, and author of Chief Men Among the Brethren.

Arthur T. Pierson 2

Arthur Tappan Pierson (1837–1911) was an American pastor, missionary statesman and author, and the authorized biographer of George Müller.

George Pinches 1

George Pinches wrote devotional ministry on the Christian life. His paper "Contemplation of Self or of Christ," published on plymouthbrethren.org, teaches that joyful Christian living comes from a simple faith fixed on the Lord Jesus rather than from looking at oneself.

Les Rainey 1

Les Rainey is a Bible teacher and former missionary who studied at Dallas Theological Seminary and returned from the mission field in 1994. He has written study courses, commentaries and messages, gathered in The Collected Writings of Les Rainey. His article "He Is Thy Lord, Worship Thou Him" first appeared in Milk & Honey.

W. Ross Rainey 5

W. Ross Rainey was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was saved at the age of eight. He graduated from The Stony Brook School, Stetson University and Dallas Theological Seminary, and was commended to the Lord's work in North America in 1954. He served in evangelism, Bible teaching, conferences and pastoral ministry, taught as a visiting instructor at Emmaus Bible School and Kawartha Lakes Bible School, and edited Food for the Flock for fifteen years. In 1970 he moved with his wife Lillian and their three children from St. Louis to Plymouth, Michigan, and ministered across the United States and Canada, with a ministry trip to India in 1988–89. His books include Capsule Comments on the Cults, Portraits from Paul's Pen and The Life of Joseph.

George Rainey 1

George Rainey (1898–1987) was born in Ballymena, Ireland, and saved in Brantford, Ontario, in 1912. Commended by the Brantford assembly, he served in China from 1921 until his wife Ruth's illness brought them home in 1925, and he spent the rest of his life ministering among the assemblies of North America, especially in small and remote places. His son W. Ross Rainey edited the magazine where several of his articles appeared.

A. Raleigh 1

Alexander Raleigh (1817–1880) was a Scottish Congregational minister, born near Castle Douglas in Galloway, who served churches in Greenock, Rotherham and Glasgow before long pastorates at Canonbury and Kensington in London. He twice led the Congregational Union of England and Wales and published several volumes of sermons; his meditation on Psalm 119:19, 'I Am a Stranger on the Earth', is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

John Rankin 1

John Rankin was an evangelist and Bible teacher among the assemblies who served the Lord for years in the British West Indies and later ministered throughout the United States and Canada. His papers “Diotrephes” and “Spiritual Laughter” appeared in the magazine Food for the Flock.

Samuel Ridout 2

Samuel Ridout (1855–1930) was born in Annapolis, Maryland, and raised by his grandfather. After graduating from St. John's College and serving at sea, he gave himself to Bible teaching and writing among the assemblies in America.

John Ritchie 1

John Ritchie (1853–1930) of Kilmarnock, Scotland, was an evangelist, Bible teacher and publisher whose books and gospel tracts went around the world.

A. C. Rose 1

A. C. Rose wrote devotional ministry for the assemblies on the worship and prayer life of the believer. His meditation "Positions and Conditions in Prayer," which draws on David's example and quotes J. N. Darby's translation, is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Charles W. Ross 1

Charles W. Ross wrote on Bible prophecy, including a long series on the times of the Gentiles.

H. L. Rossier 4

H. L. Rossier (1835–1928) was a Swiss Bible teacher among the assemblies of French-speaking Switzerland. His meditations on the historical books of the Old Testament were written in French and translated into English.

J. C. Ryle 1

John Charles Ryle (1816–1900) was the first Anglican Bishop of Liverpool and a much-loved evangelical writer, known for Holiness and Expository Thoughts on the Gospels.

Charles C. Ryrie 1

Charles C. Ryrie (1925–2016) taught at Dallas Theological Seminary and edited the Ryrie Study Bible.

Adolph Saphir 1

Adolph Saphir (1831–1891) was a Hungarian-born Jewish Christian preacher and author in London.

Vernon Schlief 1

Vernon Schlief (born 1911) grew up in North Dakota and Minnesota and was saved in 1924. In 1942 he left his post with Swift & Co. in Milwaukee and moved to New Orleans with his wife Gladys, living by faith, to open a Christian servicemen's center. Over fifty years they helped plant assemblies across the Deep South, including Belle Chasse, Louisiana, as he tells in Our Great Adventure in Faith (1996).

A. T. Schofield 1

Dr. A. T. Schofield (1846–1929) was a London physician and Christian writer.

Walter Scott 1

Walter Scott (1838–1933) was a Scottish Bible teacher among the Brethren, known for his exposition of Revelation.

Michael Scotto 1

Michael Scotto, of Greensboro, North Carolina, was raised and served for twenty-five years in the Roman Catholic Church before trusting Christ in 1991. In his article “Be Not Deceived,” published on plymouthbrethren.org, he tells his story and answers the claim that a devout Catholic needs no conversion.

Leonard Sheldrake 2

Leonard Sheldrake (1885–1952) was born in England and lost both parents to tuberculosis as a boy. Though he preached as a Sunday School superintendent, he long lacked any certainty of salvation until he came to rest on Christ alone. He became a beloved Bible teacher whose writings center on the glories of the Lord Jesus.

Andrew Shelor 1

Andrew Shelor wrote short devotional papers on the Christian's hope and on God's loving discipline. His articles 'Hasting Unto What?', on looking for the Day of God in 2 Peter 3, and 'Love Behind Chastening', drawn from Hebrews 12, are published on plymouthbrethren.org.

A. T. Sherman 1

A. T. Sherman was a writer from the United Kingdom whose devotional article “Learning to Love,” a meditation on Mary of Bethany sitting at the feet of Jesus, first appeared in the assemblies’ magazine Precious Seed. It is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Sadhu Sundar Singh 1

Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889–c. 1929) was an Indian Christian evangelist, born into a Sikh family in Punjab, who came to Christ as a teenager and chose the saffron robe of a sadhu to carry the Gospel across India and into Tibet. He also spoke widely abroad, and was last seen in 1929 setting out for Tibet; At the Master's Feet was published in 1922.

Mahendra Singhal 1

Dr. Mahendra P. Singhal was raised in an orthodox Hindu home in India and earned master's degrees in mathematics and education. While teaching mathematics at a Christian boarding school in Mussoorie, he trusted Christ on 16 July 1963, after talks with Major Ian Thomas of the Torchbearers; his family disowned him. He became chairman of Hinduism International Ministries, based in Zion, Illinois.

George Smith 1

George Smith (1833–1919) was a Scottish journalist and missionary historian, born in Leith, who edited the Friend of India and was India correspondent of The Times. Returning to Scotland, he became foreign mission secretary of the Free Church of Scotland and wrote many missionary biographies, including his Life of William Carey.

Daniel Smith 3

Daniel Smith of Vancouver, British Columbia, wrote several volumes of meditations on the Lord's Supper under the title Worship and Remembrance.

James Smith 1

James Smith wrote outline studies from the Old Testament for preachers and Bible students. His papers 'Pharaoh: A Type of the Devil', on Pharaoh's compromises in Exodus, and 'The Holy War', on Israel's battle with Amalek in Exodus 17, are published on plymouthbrethren.org.

W. G. Smith 1

W. G. Smith wrote practical ministry for believers in the assemblies. His "Suggestions to Saints," twenty brief counsels for those who gather in the Lord's name for the breaking of bread, is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Hamilton Smith 1

Hamilton Smith (1862–1943) was an English Bible teacher and writer among the Brethren.

Dan Snaddon 45

Dan Snaddon (1915–2009), known to many as “Brother Dan,” grew up in Scotland and was a prisoner of war in Singapore in World War II, a story he tells in Through the Valley of the Shadow. For more than fifty years he preached and taught across Canada and the United States. The studies here come from his own ministry notes.

American Tract Society 1

The American Tract Society is a nonprofit evangelical publisher founded in New York City on May 11, 1825, to print and distribute gospel tracts and Christian literature. It moved its headquarters to Garland, Texas, in 1978. This one-year chronological Bible reading plan is its suggested way to read the whole Bible through in a year.

Edwin G. Spahr 1

Dr. Edwin G. Spahr served for about thirty years in the Philippines and was one of the best known and best loved evangelical preachers in Manila, where his Sunday morning messages at Grace Bible Church sent many out to live and witness for Christ. Gethsemane to Galilee, written in Manila in 1976, was his response to friends who asked him to put his preaching into writing.

H. C. Spence 1

H. C. Spence wrote devotional ministry centred on the person of Christ. The paper 'The Beauty of the Lord' contrasts the fading beauty of nature and of human life with the lasting beauty of the Lord Jesus, and it is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

C. H. Spurgeon 2

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892), the "Prince of Preachers," was pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London for nearly forty years.

James Stalker 1

James Stalker (1848–1927) was a Scottish preacher and author, known for The Life of Jesus Christ and The Life of St. Paul.

Miles J. Stanford 1

Miles J. Stanford (1914–1999), born in Wheaton, Illinois, was a Christian author and correspondence-ministry leader who served as an Army cartographer in World War II. He later based his ministry in Colorado Springs. Drawing deeply on the early Brethren, especially J. N. Darby, he wrote The Green Letters (1964), later issued by Back to the Bible as Principles of Spiritual Growth.

Martin Staveley 1

Martin Staveley wrote Bible ministry on the person of Christ. His study 'The Greatness of the Lord Jesus Christ' works through Colossians, where Paul answers the early errors that denied Christ's deity by setting out His supremacy over all things; it is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Andrew Stenhouse 1

Andrew Stenhouse (1899–1991) was a missionary among the assemblies in Argentina and Chile from 1927 to 1980. His writings include A Scriptural Assembly, True Evangelism and The Sin of Sectarianism; his article “Meeting as a New Testament Church Today” is adapted from A Scriptural Assembly.

J. B. Stoney 1

James Butler Stoney (1814–1897) was an Irish Bible teacher among the early Brethren.

C. E. Stuart 2

C. E. Stuart (1823–1903) was an English Bible teacher among the Brethren.

Ben Sutton 1

Ben Sutton was an evangelist whose testimony, "Then Jesus Came," tells how Christ delivered him from drink and gambling and later sent him preaching across England in a Gospel Caravan. He and his wife Sarah made their home in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, and his preaching and teaching ministry extended across North America.

Hudson Taylor 5

J. Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) was a British missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission, which carried the gospel into every province of China's interior. His own books here include A Retrospect, China: Its Spiritual Need and Claims, and Union and Communion; his life is told in Hudson Taylor in Early Years, The Growth of a Work of God, and Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, all in this library.

Samuel Taylor 1

Samuel Taylor wrote Bible ministry for the assemblies' magazine Food for the Flock between 1957 and 1960. His articles 'Gaius and Diotrophes', on the work of elders in 3 John, 'Great David's Greater Son' and 'He Is Risen' are published on plymouthbrethren.org.

Dr. & Mrs. Howard Taylor 3

Dr. Howard Taylor (1861–1946), Hudson Taylor's son, and his wife Mary Geraldine Taylor (née Guinness, 1865–1949) served with the China Inland Mission. They wrote the authorized two-volume life of Hudson Taylor, The Growth of a Soul (1911) and The Growth of a Work of God (1918), and later the shorter Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret.

Herbert W. Taylor 1

Herbert Wilbraham Taylor (1847–1899) was an English evangelist and Bible teacher among the Brethren, born at Barnet, who preached the Gospel with power in many large towns and loved open-air preaching in the market places. He wrote many tracts and small Gospel books, including Abraham: Suggestive Thoughts for Young Christians (1877).

Friedrich August Tholuck 1

Friedrich August Tholuck (1799–1877) was a German Protestant theologian and preacher at the University of Halle.

W. H. Griffith Thomas 1

W. H. Griffith Thomas (1861–1924) was an Anglican scholar and author, a founder of Dallas Theological Seminary.

Sam Thorpe 1

Sam Thorpe is a Bible teacher among the assemblies. His studies "Altars of Genesis," which traces worship through the altars of the patriarchs, and "The Humble Walk With God" are published on plymouthbrethren.org.

R. A. Torrey 1

Reuben Archer Torrey (1856–1928) was an American evangelist, pastor and Bible teacher, born in Hoboken, New Jersey. He led the Moody Bible Institute, preached in worldwide revival campaigns, served as dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (Biola), and helped edit The Fundamentals.

How to Pray

R. A. Torrey · 1900 · about 85 pages

A practical, Bible-centred guide to the importance, the conditions and the power of prayer.

Prayer

A. W. Tozer 1

A. W. Tozer (1897–1963) was an American pastor and author, known for The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy.

William Trotter 1

William Trotter (1818–1865) was an English Methodist minister who joined the Brethren and wrote widely on prophecy and church order.

Ben Tuininga 1

Ben Tuininga (died 2007) taught at Emmaus Bible School, where he served for a time as co-president with William MacDonald. He helped plant assemblies across the American Midwest, was an elder in several of them, served 15 years as a Minneapolis police chaplain, and was involved with Story Book Lodge Christian Camps for more than half a century.

Author Unknown 1

Papers published on plymouthbrethren.org without a named writer.

Jim Upton 1

Jim Upton wrote for the assemblies on the careful use of Bible words. In his article “Hold Fast... Sound Words,” published on plymouthbrethren.org, he urges believers to speak of “the church” and “the assembly” as Scripture does, rather than borrowing terms like “the chapel.”

W. A. Upton 1

W. A. Upton wrote for the assemblies on congregational worship. His article “Singing With Purpose,” published on plymouthbrethren.org, shows from Scripture that singing together has two main purposes, praising God and teaching His people, and encourages believers to take part wholeheartedly.

Elliott VanRyn 1

Elliott VanRyn (born 1922 in Marsh Harbour, Abaco, Bahamas), son of August Van Ryn, trusted Christ in 1931, served in the Army Air Force in World War II, ran a tire business with his brother, and from 1961 to 1999 served the Lord in full-time ministry.

W. E. Vine 1

W. E. Vine (1873–1949) was an English Bible teacher and Greek scholar, best known for his Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words.

John Walden 2

John Walden (1905–1979) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was saved at six and began preaching at fifteen. For more than thirty years he taught the Colorado Springs city-wide Bible Class, cared for the assemblies in that area, and reached many through radio messages, a cassette lending library and a daily “Minute with the Bible” telephone line. He wrote for the Sunday School Teachers' Lesson Manual from 1949 to 1977, and with his wife Nan began the Christian Home for Children in Colorado Springs.

George Walker 1

George Walker wrote for Food for the Flock, a magazine of ministry for the assemblies. His article "Escuela Biblica in Miami," from the September 1963 issue, tells how a Spanish-language Sunday school began at a Miami Gospel Hall among Cuban refugee children.

William O. Walker 1

William O. (Bill) Walker was saved while serving in the army and came to Vernon and Gladys Schlief's servicemen's center in New Orleans. After his discharge he turned down a good career to serve there full time, and with his wife Carolyn he helped build assemblies across the South, from Lafayette, Louisiana, to Linden, Alabama. His study of 1 Peter, By the Rivers of Babylon, is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

John F. Walvoord 1

John F. Walvoord (1910–2002) was an American theologian and longtime president of Dallas Theological Seminary.

George Watmough 1

George Watmough was a former professional boxer and show-business hopeful who was converted in 1933 after hearing evangelist Paul Rader on the radio. For some thirty years he hitchhiked across America to share the gospel with the drivers who picked him up. He told those stories in Hitchhiking on Purpose (Loizeaux Brothers, 1965).

J. B. Watson 1

Joseph Barnes Watson (1884–1955) was an English Bible teacher among the assemblies who grew up in Cumberland and served for over forty years as a customs officer in London while preaching widely. He helped plant the assembly at Leytonstone and from 1941 edited The Witness magazine; his books include The Sinless Saviour.

Francis Wayland 2

Francis Wayland (1796–1865) was president of Brown University, Judson's own college, from 1827 to 1855, and a Baptist pastor and writer. At the request of the American Baptist Missionary Union and of Judson's family he wrote the two-volume Memoir (1853), drawn from Judson's letters and journals.

G. Christian Weiss 1

G. Christian Weiss (George Christian Weiss, born 1910) wrote for the Back to the Bible broadcast in Lincoln, Nebraska, and authored more than thirty books. Many of them are on missions, such as The Heart of Missionary Theology (1976), along with Insights into Bible Times and Customs (1974). His article on waiting on God in worship was published by Back to the Bible.

Warren Wiersbe 1

Warren W. Wiersbe (1929–2019) was an American pastor of Moody Church and Bible teacher on Back to the Bible.

G. V. Wigram 1

George Vicesimus Wigram (1805–1879) was an early leader among the Brethren in England, who compiled the Englishman's Hebrew and Greek concordances.

Joe Wilbur 1

Joe Wilbur writes on the life and health of the local assembly. His article "Illness of the Assembly," which compares the local church to a living body that must be taught and nourished to reach maturity, is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

G. C. Willis 1

George Christopher Willis (1889–1973) was a Canadian missionary among the assemblies who served in China from 1921 to 1949. He wrote many books of Bible meditations, published the paper The Steward, abridged Andrew Miller's history of the Brethren, and described his internment by the Japanese in I Was Among the Captives.

T. Ernest Wilson 6

T. Ernest Wilson grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. At eighteen he heard missionaries speak of Angola's great need, and in 1923, at twenty-one, he was commended by a small working-class assembly in Belfast to the Lord's work in Africa, where he served for many years; his account is told in Angola Beloved. He later taught the Word widely in North America and beyond, including the All-India Assembly Workers' Conference in 1973, and lived in Sea Girt, New Jersey. He was a lifelong friend of James Gunn and spoke at his funeral in 1982. More of his ministry is at ternestwilson.com.

Lester Wilson 1

Lester Wilson was a Canadian-born evangelist who was called in the 1930s to pioneer gospel work in North Carolina. A five-week campaign in Clayton in 1931 saw fifty-one people profess faith in Christ, and he went on to help plant assemblies in Raleigh, Burlington, Winston-Salem, Siler City, Greensboro and Durham. He spent his last years at Pittsboro Christian Village in North Carolina.

J. David Wilt 1

J. David Wilt wrote from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Christian family life. His article "Godly Wives," which traces four marks of a godly wife through four passages of Scripture, beginning with the Spirit-filled life of Ephesians 5, is published on plymouthbrethren.org.

W. T. P. Wolston 1

W. T. P. Wolston (1840–1917) was a Scottish physician and evangelist among the Brethren, much used in gospel preaching and writing.