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Once in Royal David's City Print E-mail
Sunday, 18 December 2005

Cecil Frances Alexander wrote 400 hymns including the carol 'Once in Royal David's City.'

Born in Ireland in 1819 Cecil Frances wrote poetry from the age of 18. Later she taught Sunday lessons from her hymns. One lesson was about the God of creation froom her hymn 'All Things Bright and Beautiful.' Another of her children's hymns is 'There is a Green Hill Far Away.'

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A Hymn on an Envelope Print E-mail
Wednesday, 30 November 2005
DR J. EDWIN ORR -- "..No man has a greater passion for revival or a greater love for souls of men," Billy Graham.
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A Surprise in Song Print E-mail
Wednesday, 30 November 2005
Joseph H. Gilmore was a highly respected pastor at the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia. In 1859, age 24, he spoke at a mid-week service from Psalm 23:2 on 'He Leadeth Me'.
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Lord Shaftesbury Print E-mail
Sunday, 27 November 2005

'One of England's Social Reformers' - Encyclopaedia Britannica 2002

Ashley Anthony Cooper who later became Lord Shaftesbury was born in London in 1801. At 25 he entered the British Parliament where he served for 58 years. 

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...you...are kept by the pwer of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time (1 Peter 1:5).
 
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials (1 Peter 1:6).