Yoga and concentration (samadhi) have given the sadhus, sanyasis, and the poets of India great mental development and power. These psychic exercises lead to self-hypnotism and also self-deception—a sort of satisfaction which comes from self-denial and rigorous,...
On March 9, 1791, when John Wesley was carried to his grave, he left behind him a good library of books, a well-worn clergyman's gown, and a much-abused reputation. But also, an England moved to the very depths and a Church thrilled through and through with an...
Knowing ChristKartar Singh was a contemporary of Sadhu Sundar Singh was a Sikh and the son of rich Zamindar (Land owner). All the hopes of the family were centered on this boy, for there were no other sons to carry on the name. Like Sadhu Sundar Singh he was brought...
1959 – 2002“If I have to go, I want to go out strong for the Lord.” Those were some of 42-year-old Martin Burnham’s last words before he was killed.Martin and Gracia Burnham, New Tribes missionaries, were kidnapped last year by a Muslim extremist group called Abu...
In 1892 an American Presbyterian missionary sailed for India, received a new infilling of the Holy Spirit, and soon formed a prayer fellowship for God’s work and revival across north India. This was John Hyde, who in time became as Praying Hyde.A man of prayerFrom the...
1934 – 2002Noble Alexander was born on February 12, 1934 to Cristobal and Beryl Alexander in San German Oriente, Cuba. He served as an assistant pastor in Cuba from 1959-1962.On March 20, 1962, after preaching a sermon on the origin of sin, he was ambushed and taken...
Against Christian faithSundar Singh was born in 1889 into an important landowning Sikh family in Patiala state, North India. Sikhs, rejecting Hindu polytheism and Muslim intolerance in the sixteenth century, had become a vigorous nation with a religion of their own....