Sermons and Biblical Studies

(December 29, 1809–May 19, 1898), was an author and British Prime Minister four different times during Queen Victoria’s reign. He asserted: I have known ninety-five of the world’s great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible. The Bible is stamped with a Specialty of Origin, and an immeasurable distance … Continue reading “GLADSTONE,
WILLIAM EWART”

(December 24, 1809–May 23, 1868), was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, guide, Indian agent and soldier. He was a contemporary of the mountainmen explorers: Jedediah Smith (1798–1831), Jim Bridger (1804–1881) and Thomas Fitzpatrick (1799–1854); and his ventures west of the Mississippi were as famous as Daniel Boone’s were to the east. Kit Carson was born … Continue reading “CARSON,
“KIT” CHRISTOPHER”

(September 29, 1809–December 14, 1891), was the President of the Royal Society of Physicians. In 1890, Sir Risdon Bennett wrote in the Report of the Christian Evidence Society: It has been truly said that “the real evidence of Christianity is in its power.” And how can we look around the world and fail to see … Continue reading “BENNETT,
SIR RISDON”

(August 6, 1809–October 6, 1892), 1st Baron Tennyson, was accorded the royal honor of being named an English poet-laureate. He authored the poem Charge of the Light Brigade, memorializing the courage of the British Cavalry as they charged to their death against the Russian guns at the Battle of Balaklava, October 25, 1854. He wrote … Continue reading “TENNYSON,
ALFRED, LORD”

(July 30, 1809–January 16, 1899), was ordained a priest in Canada, 1833. He became known as the “Apostle of Temperance of Canada.” In 1851, he brought 7,500 French Canadians into Illinois to found the French Colony of St. Anne. The church he built, at 334 South St. Louis Avenue, in St. Anne, Illinois, still stands. … Continue reading “CHINIQUY,
CHARLES PASCHAL TELESPHOR”

(July 28, 1809–October 30, 1862), was an American astronomer and a Major-General in the Civil War. He was famous for having led the raid which captured Huntsville, Alabama, in April of 1862. As director of the Dudley Observatory in Albany, New York, Ormsby Mitchell wrote: Planetary and Stellar Worlds, 1848; Popular Astronomy, 1860; and a … Continue reading “MITCHEL,
ORMSBY MACKNIGHT”

(May 12, 1809–November 16, 1894), was a U.S. Representative, author and orator. He served as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1847–49. He was a descendant of Governor John Winthrop. On May 28, 1849, Robert Charles Winthrop spoke at the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Bible Society in Boston, stating: The voice of experience … Continue reading “WINTHROP,
ROBERT CHARLES”

(February 12, 1809–April 19, 1882), was a British naturalist. He propounded the evolutionary theory of origins. In his work, Origin of Species, 1859, Charles Darwin wrote: To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical … Continue reading “DARWIN,
CHARLES ROBERT”

(February 12, 1809–April 15, 1865), was the 16th President of the United States, 1861–65, responsible for preserving the Union through the Civil War; supported the 13th Amendment prohibiting slavery, ratified 1865; appointed Ulysses S. Grant as Commander in Chief of the Union forces, 1864; delivered the Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863; issued the Emancipation Proclamation, … Continue reading “LINCOLN,
ABRAHAM”

(December 29, 1808–July 31, 1875), was the 17th President of the United States, 1865–69; Vice-President under Abraham Lincoln, assuming the Presidency upon Lincoln’s assassination; continued Lincoln’s plan of Reconstruction for the South, pardoned those who had seceded, granted voting rights for all Blacks; acquitted of impeachment accusations, 1868; U.S. Senator, 1874–75; Military Governor of Tennessee, … Continue reading “JOHNSON,
ANDREW”