James Black (1879-1949) was born in Rothesay, Scotland, in 1879.While in school, a teacher described one of his essays as the most original, though not the best informed. Originality was one of the outstanding ... Continue Reading...

Not many people read Joseph Parker's sermons today, but he had his day and a great day it was. His preaching helped make it great.Preaching was the one thing for which God had sent him into the world, and as Ro... Continue Reading...

Frederick William Robertson was born in London in 1816, and was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Brasenose College in Oxford. He was ordained in 1840.Robertson served as a curate in Winchester, Cheltenham, and... Continue Reading...

A. J. Gossip was born at Glasgow in 1873 and educated at the University of Edinburgh; there he attended Alexander Whyte's Church and was licensed for the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland in 1898.He held ... Continue Reading...

George A. Buttrick was born at Seaham Harbour, Northumberland, England, on March 23, 1892. In 1915 he graduated from Victoria University, Manchester with honors in philosophy.Buttrick began his ministry as a Co... Continue Reading...

I have been preaching for over sixty years and have never missed an opportunity of hearing great preachers in Britain and in America. The two who have made the most lasting impression on me are W. E. Sangster, ... Continue Reading...

Like Joseph Parker, Dinsdale T. Young was a Northumbrian, having been born in 1861 at Corbridge-on-Tyne, where his father was a physician.In early life he decided to become a Methodist preacher and began to pre... Continue Reading...

W. E. Sangster was born in 1900 into a humble home in Shoreditch, London, the son of Anglican parents. In a fragment of autobiography he wrote: "I believe that I was born to be a minister. I cannot recall a tim... Continue Reading...