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STAND UP AND BLESS THE LORD
Amazing Grace James Montgomery, 1771–1854 Stand up and praise the Lord your God, who is from everlasting to everlasting. (Nehemiah 9:5) Many excellent opportunities to witness for the Lord are lost each day simply because of our timidity. Or perhaps we are with a group of colleagues when the Lord’s name is blasphemed, the gospel…
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Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 20)
THOMAS HUDSON Thomas Hudson was a glover by trade, living in the town of Ailesham in Norfolk. Although he had little schooling, he was a great student of the scriptures and preached on Sundays to any of his neighbors who were interested in hearing the Bible read and explained. When Queen Mary began her reign,…
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Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 19)
JOHN HULLER John Hullier came from a respectable family and was sent to Eron and King’s College, Cambridge, where he devoted himself to the study of theology, intending to become a minister. After he graduated, he became the curate of Babram, a village about three miles from Cambridge. He hadn’t been there long before he…
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Foxe’s Christian Martyrs (Part 18)
GERTRUDE CROKHAY Gertrude Crokhay lived with her second husband in St. Katherine’s parish, near the Tower of London. In 1558, a child portraying St. Nicholas made his way around the parish, but Gertrude refused to let him into her house. The next day Dr. Mallet and twenty others appeared at her door to ask why…
