John Calvin

Calvin: His Life and Times

Thomas Lawson

An illustrated nineteenth-century life of John Calvin — his youth in France, conversion, the Institutes, his work in Geneva and the influence of the Reformation he led.

≈ 3 h 50 min read · 29 chapters · 159 pages

The Telugu Mission of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America containing the Biography of the Rev. Christaian Frederick Heyer M.D

A Retrospect

J. Hudson Taylor

James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, tells how God led him from conversion and early lessons of faith and prayer in England to missionary work in China and the founding of the Mission.

≈ 3 h 25 min read · 20 chapters · 105 pages

Adoniram Judson Gordon

Ernest B. Gordon

The life of the Boston pastor A. J. Gordon (1836–1895) — preacher, hymn-writer, missions leader and founder of the Boston Missionary Training School — written by his son, with letters and extracts from his sermons. (This is not a biography of the missionary Adoniram Judson.)

≈ 10 h 21 min read · 27 chapters · 402 pages

Calvin's Aphorisms and Letter to Francis the First

John Calvin

An 1844 English translation of Calvin's One Hundred Aphorisms — a summary of the Institutes — and his dedicatory letter to King Francis I of France defending the Reformed faith.

≈ 1 h 33 min read · 7 chapters · 112 pages · 1844

George Müller of Bristol

Arthur T. Pierson

Arthur T. Pierson's classic life of George Müller of Bristol, tracing his conversion, his orphan work supported by prayer alone, his world-wide preaching and the lessons of faith God taught through him.

≈ 11 h 27 min read · 38 chapters · 362 pages