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Missionaries in Japan and founders of the Oriental Missionary SocietyCharles and Lettie Cowman from The ScriptoriumBorn in Toulon, Illinois, Charles Cowman moved with his family to Thayer, Iowa, birthplace of Lettie Burd, when he was two years old. They became childhood sweethearts and were married in 1889. They moved to Chicago and were converted atContinue reading “Charles Elmer Cowman 1864-1924”

Lloyd Cassel Douglas, an American minister and author, was born Doya C. Douglas. American writer who published popular novels about religious and moral issues. Douglas’s first book, MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION, appeared in 1929 and became a huge success. The work was rejected by two major publishers. It was issued by a small religious publishing firm andContinue reading “Lloyd C Douglas, 1877-1951”

May 20th The realm of the real In your patience possess ye your souls. Luke 21:19. When a man is born again, there is not the same robustness in his thinking or reasoning for a time as formerly. We have to make an expression of the new life, to form the mind of Christ. “AcquireContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

May 20 “Shall I refuse to drink the cup of sorrow which the Father has given me to drink?” (John 18:11.) (Weymouth.) GOD takes a thousand times more pains with us than the artist with his picture, by many touches of sorrow, and by many colors of circumstance, to bring us into the form whichContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

20 MAY The call of God ‘Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee.’ Genesis 12:1SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Hebrews 11:8–16 The command was to leave his family and country and to go toContinue reading “365 days with Newton”