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They Knew Their God Vol. 3 begins with the fascinating story of the Frenchman, Marquis DeRenty, who was born in the early seventeenth century. He is followed by another Frenchman, Stephen Grellet, who was forced to seek refuge in America during the French Revolution and became a Quaker and worldwide traveling preacher. The third sketch presents the life of the Englishman Samuel Pearce, sometimes known as “the Brainerd of the Baptists.” Pearce is followed by the Methodist preacher from Yorkshire, John Smith, known as “The man with calloused knees.” The fifth sketch is short but moving and introduces the reader to Ann Cutler, who was born in Preston, England in the mid eighteenth century.

Her life of prayer influenced more than one prominent Methodist preacher even though she died at the young age of thirty-five. In the sixth sketch, we read of Uncle John Vassar, otherwise known as “God’s sheep Dog. John was a colporteur for the American Tract Society. In the next sketch we are taken back to England and the Salvation Army as we read of the devout, albeit somewhat eccentric George Railton. Railton is followed by the Scotsman John G. Govan, founder of the Faith Mission in Edinburgh, Scotland. Next, comes Oswald Chambers, whose devotional books make him practically a household word in many Christian homes in both the UK and America. His books still challenge, bless and sometimes shock the reader into a closer walk with Christ. He is followed by his wife, Gertrude, who, after her husband’s death at age forty-three, made sure that the legacy Oswald left in unpublished manuscripts, was made available to the Christian world. In the last three sketches of the book, we read of Evan Hopkins, the Anglican clergyman who became a well known writer and speaker at the famous Keswick convention; Mary Mozely, missionary to Africa, and Francis Asbury, the English born American bishop who did so much to establish Methodism in the New World.
—Trudy Harvey Tait.
This book, like its predecessors, is written by Edwin and Lillian Harvey, and is published by Harvey Christian Publishers. It is available on the Online Christian Bookstore.

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