Douglas Higgins

Autobiography of a Yorkshire Christian

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Douglas Higgins

Weight .28 lbs
Dimensions 7.13 × 4.75 × .31 in
ISBN 9781848714885
Binding

Paperback, eBook (ePub & Mobi), Paperback & eBook (ePub & Mobi)

Topic

Today, General Biography

Page Count

104

Format

Book

Book Description

Not every day does an autobiography appear from a man in his 100th year, but all who know Douglas Higgins never saw him as belonging to the ordinary. From astronomy to Christ at the age of twenty-two, then Art College at Sheffield, war service in the RAF, and a career in school teaching—these were but parts of a life of progressive enthusiasm. As an impromptu speaker he had a charm which often turned unwilling hearers into friends.

Questions of age and race never hindered his appeal. Young people, in particular, felt that he belonged to them, and for many Chinese students he became a friend and counsellor when in his nineties.

By the truth of Scripture, he says, we are ‘led into true happiness here and glory to come’. Such happiness he lived to spread, and it gives these pages an attraction which can be felt.

Table of Contents Expand ↓

Illustrations vii
Foreword by Iain H Murray ix
Preface xi
1 Light in a South Yorkshire Village 1
2 Early Christian Experiences 17
3 Five Years with 23rd Squadron, Royal Air Force 33
4 Wycliffe Chapel 49
5 Teaching and Speaking 63
6 The ‘China’ House in Gleadless 77

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