Christianity - Biographies

Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Roche…

by Gilbert Burnet Read by InTheDesert 5
I believe that the good Bishop of Salisbury's account of the last days of poor young Rochester would, if carefully read, make more impressio…

Lectures on Female Scripture Characters

by William Jay Read by LibriVox Volunteers
I began to look over sundry of my old manuscripts... [and] among them I found a number of lectures which I had delivered more than forty-eig…

Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints

by John Gilmary Shea Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints : with reflections for every day in the year : compiled from "Butler's Lives" and other appro…

One of China's Scholars

by Mrs. Howard Taylor Read by MaryAnn 5
The first of two volumes telling the life story of Pastor Hsi, a Confucian scholar from Shanxi province in Northern China who became a Chris…

A Token for Children

by James Janeway Read by InTheDesert 4.7
Some of you have had the privilege to carry in your bosoms some of those . . . unfledged angels sent here but for a little while and then ca…

The King's Son

by Frederick William Bourne Read by Alan Chant 5
Billy Bray, was an unconventional Cornish preacher. He was born in 1794 in the village of Twelveheads, Cornwall, England. After leaving sch…

Jerry McAuley

by Jerry Mcauley Read by KHand 5
Jerry McAuley was a missionary and founder of the Water Street Mission (later the New York City Rescue Mission), the first rescue mission in…

Elizabeth Bayley Seton

by John Clement Reville Read by dave7 4.4
This is a picturesque and moving account of the life and work of Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774-1821), the first native-born citizen of th…

John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides

by John Paton Read by AletheiaCharis 4.8
“Mr. Dickson, you are advanced in years now, and your own prospect is soon to be laid in the grave, there to be eaten by worms; I confess to…

War Memories of an Army Chaplain

by Henry C. Trumbull Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Henry Clay Trumbull was the Chaplain of the Tenth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers in the American Civil War. In this memoir, he gives his…

Our Master

by Bramwell Booth Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Bramwell Booth was the oldest child of William and Catherine Booth, the founders of the Salvation Army. Upon the death of his father, Willi…

Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints

by John Gilmary Shea Read by KevinS 4.6
Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints : with reflections for every day in the year : compiled from "Butler's Lives" and other appro…

Scripture Characters

by Robert Smith Candlish Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Nineteen studies of figures from the Bible - some well-known and some obscure. The discourses were originally written as sermons and then re…

Phillips Brooks

by Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe Read by David Wales 4
Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893) was one of the finest and most famous clergyman in the nineteenth century; he was acknowledged as a masterful …

The Life that Counts

by Mrs. Howard Taylor Read by AletheiaCharis 5
Borden of Yale '09 is the inspiring biography of William Borden, a young American millionaire. During a trip around the world, Borden commit…

From Baca to Beulah

by Jennie Smith Read by TriciaG 4.5
Sequel to The Valley of Baca. This continues the personal account of Jennie Smith, who spent more than 20 years in pain, unable to walk, and…

John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides

by John Paton 4.8
Despite the trouble and dangers John G. Paton had faced on the island of Tanna (as recounted in the first part of his autobiography), his tr…

A Casket of Cameos

by Frank W. Boreham Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…

The Letters of John Knox

by John Knox Read by InTheDesert 4.8
The letters... will perhaps more clearly exhibit the temper and character of Knox, than his more elaborate compositions: but to understand t…

Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints

by John Gilmary Shea Read by KevinS
Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints : with reflections for every day in the year : compiled from "Butler's Lives" and other appro…

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