God Made Them Great

Weight 0.48 lbs
Dimensions 8.5 × 5.4 × 0.4 in
ISBN 9781848712713
Topic

General Biography

Format

Book

Original Pub Date

1974

Banner Pub Date

Jun 1, 1974

Binding

Paperback, eBook (ePub & Kindle), Paperback & eBook (ePub & Kindle)

Page Count

144

Book Description

Estimating greatness not by the usual standards of judgment, John Tallach retells the story of five lives: a German missionary in England who gave his life to the orphans of Bristol’s slums; a Canadian girl who served the Lisu of China and died of cancer in 1957, recommending ‘a peerless Master’; a rough Cornishman who came to ‘say, sing and dance glory, glory’, and left an unforgettable testimony to cheerful Christianity; a Yale undergraduate who lived to ‘arrest the flow of Indian souls rushing on to a lost eternity’; and, finally, a Scot who wandered the earth before he came to love Christ and the poor of Dundee more than he loved all else.

These Christians are unrecorded in the world’s annals of fame, but if the true principle of living Christianity is simple dependence upon God, and child-like faith, then their lives are eminent among those ‘of whom the world is not worthy’. Living in different countries and at different times, they each became ‘like little children’, and God made them great.

While writing with youth particularly in view, the interest of his presentation will hold the attention of all ages.

Table of Contents Expand ↓

Preface to the First Edition vii
Preface to the Third Edition viii
GEORGE MÜLLER
1 A rascal changed 3
2 A difficult decision 6
3 Beginnings at Bristol 9
4 How far can a shilling go? 11
5 A voice from the past 13
6 Trials begin 15
7 Number 4 18
8 Exodus 20
9 Boiler trouble 24
10 Into all the world 27
11 The ‘tomorrow’ that never came 29
ISOBEL KUHN
1 Night of despair 33
2 ‘The Firs’ and Mr Fraser 36
3 In training 37
4 Marriage motto 40
5 Kathryn Ann and Small Pearl 41
6 Lisuland at last 44
7 Partings 47
8 ‘I am with you’ 49
9 Bible School 52
10 ‘A shelter from the storm’ 55
11 Long trek 57
12 Last climb 59
BILLY BRAY
1 Billy is born, then born again 65
2 The new Billy Bray 67
3 Chapel-building 70
4 Billy’s faith 75
5 Attacked by Satan 80
6 Billy’s death 82
DAVID BRAINERD
1 Preparation 87
2 Into the dark forest 90
3 The Forks of Delaware 94
4 By horse and canoe 97
5 Encouragement 101
6 Converts at Crossweeksung 103
7 Evil in the west 105
8 What grace can do 108
9 Crossweeksung: the church established 111
10 ‘Into peace’ 114
ROBERT ANNAN
1 A wandering son 119
2 Saved by grace 121
3 Serving Christ 125
4 A street meeting 127
5 The Master first 129
6 The last week 133

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  1. David Fuhr

    Great book – good for adults as well. Every Christian should read it.

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