… a Review of Schools, for instance, deals in detail with educational reform. Parents thinking of home-schooling their children as a legal alternative might care to consult Cowper who denounced the school system of his day as barbaric and developed ideas of education most acceptable to Christian parents. First a few words about Cowper’s own education.
Christian parents, the Bible and Pilgrim’s Progress
Cowper was born on 31. November 1731 (Old Style) in Berkhamsted, …
Aug 21
… the People of India (I-IV)
William Cowper (1731-1800): Christian Campaigner
William Cowper and Home-Schooling
William Cowper’s Friendship with John Newton
William Grimshaw (1708-1763): Apostle of the North
William Huntington (1745-1813): Pastor of Providence
William Perkins (1558-1602): Preacher of Law and Grace
William Romaine (1714-1795): Evangelical Pillar
William Tyndale (c. 1484-1536): Heir of God through Christ’s Deservings
William Whitaker (1547-1595): Author of the …
This volume depicts the lives of another thirteen Baptists stalwarts. Michael Haykin’s starts with a moving portrayal of Benjamin Francis, the man Gill wanted to succeed him at Carter Lane. Francis’ triumphs through his humble faith are inspiring. Then Robert Oliver gives interesting insights into the life and ministry of Abraham Booth, a man respected and honoured outside Baptist …
… a sea of mercies.” 1 Happily, a friend of John’s father, David Spindler continued John’s home-schooling before placing him in the senior class of a Middle High School under Sebastian Kneer, a renowned Greek scholar. After six months, John, now thirteen years of age, proceeded to the Upper School, adding history, mathematics, French and Italian to his Classical, Biblical and literary studies. Meanwhile, John’s mother had married John Albert Glöckner of Maulbronn Theological …
Most readers are familiar with the Calvinist-Arminian controversy of the 18th century in which free-grace, championed by Whitefield, Toplady and Romaine was set against free-will, maintained by Fletcher, Sellon and Wesley. The controversy dealt with whether salvation was made possible by Christ, depending on man’s acceptance of it, or whether Christ secured His Church’s salvation by …
Jan 17
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 …
Part II: The Mission Prospers
The mission at Serampore prospered and spread. Carey was given the most prominent building in the city for the church in which he preached for the next thirty-four years. The town of Serampore, too, prospered as it proved an asylum of peace for fugitives from the Americo-Franco-British wars and it persuaded many wealthy investors to settle there. More missionaries …
My reason for publishing this account of William Carey and his Indian mission on my website.
On 18-21 February, 2010 a conference will be held at Muscle Shoals, Alabama under the theme ‘The Quagmire of Hyper-Calvinism’ . The key speaker will be Dr. Michael Haykin who will lecture on Andrew Fuller as a missionary pioneer. The myth that Andrew Fuller pioneered a missionary movement is …
History of the English Calvinistic Baptists 1771-1892: from John Gill to C. H. Spurgeon
Robert W. Oliver, BOT.
Emerging Deconstructionism
This book is based on Robert Oliver’s 1985 doctoral dissertation. His title is misleading. It is not a history of the British Calvinistic Baptists but, as Michael Haykin’s Foreword explains, an analysis of controversies regarding …
Aug 24
Hawker’s Guidebooks to Zion
Genesis 33:12
Robert Hawker (1753-1827) combined sound Biblical doctrine with intense evangelistic fervour. Wherever he ministered, crowds longing to hear the Word of Life thronged to hear him. Hawker preached with great feeling and compassion because he knew that his labour was not in vain and God’s Word never failed in its purpose. Some years …
