My mother Gladys Ella, née Hume, started going to Sunday and elementary school a year before the outbreak of the First World War in England. When I left home to do my apprenticeship in Sweden in the mid 1950s, Mum sent me a chain of letters, mostly from Memory Lane. Here is a letter she sent me on her earliest childhood entitled ‘Mottos on the Wall.’ Mum was brought up in a poverty-stricken home …
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Mottos on the Walls
Jan 17
About
Aug 17
George M. Ella
Historian, Author and Biographer
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E. T. Clifford on Doddridge
Aug 22
… adverse criticism, Dr. Clifford ended by stating,
“Even more at odds with the facts, Dr George Ella asserts that Doddridge’s Calvinism was ‘higher’ than Dr John Gill’s!”
This is incorrect. My original ET article (Feb. 1995), including Doddridge’s balanced analysis of Calvinism, which I share, was radically shortened in the American version. Nevertheless, this version still shows clearly that I look upon Doddridge as being ‘higher’ in his Calvinism than Gill on one of the …
New Cowper Book
Aug 21
… on Cowper to make him the great poetical preacher of God’s Word, Works and Ways.
G. M. Ella, Mülheim
Sir,
J.R. Brogan writes (Aug, 10/17), “There may be other readers who, like Dr. Ella, cannot see why ‘Rev. 18:1-4 cannot be lightly dismissed as irrelevant today’”. Those new to the debate will thus be led to believe that I lightly dismiss this Scriptural exhortation and find it irrelevant to the European problem. Mr. Brogan’s reference was to words that I wrote and meant and had a timely relevancy which I hoped could not be dismissed. I actually said:
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Harmon on Fuller
Nov 7
… Harmon’s invectives.
Harmon’s recommendation of Arthur Kirkby’s work contra Ella suggests that he never read beyond my Introduction. Kirkby’s most balanced thesis, which I recommend in my work, was the basis of my studies on Fuller. I consulted Dr. Kirkby personally on two occasions for guidance. Kirkby argues in his thesis that one can sum up Fuller’s theology of salvation in the slogan “I can if I will”. My work shows that Kirkby was absolutely right. If …
… of John Gill which are still read and sought after, two hundred years after his death.
G. M. Ella
… of the Spirit with Reformed, Lutheran and Baptist believers joining hands and hearts.
George M. Ella, Mülheim
… John Gill which are still read and sought after, two hundred years after his death.”
G. M. Ella
Banner on Hypers
Nov 13
… not too old to learn and grow in grace and the knowledge of our Saviour.
In Christ
George M. Ella
