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Count Zinzendorf | a wealthy Christian whose estate in Saxony became a refuge for persecuted Christians |
Charles Wesley | Methodist who wrote 7,000 hymns |
William Carey | Cobbler who went as a missionary to India, where he translated the Bible and other Christian books into about 40 languages |
George Whitefield | Preacher in Britain & America, who started an orphanage in Georgia and was known for his eloquence, humility, and love |
Hudson Taylor | best known English missionary to China who founded the China Inland Mission |
Charles Spurgeon | Greatest English preacher of the 1800's whose church building in London held 6,000 people |
David Brainerd | missionary to Indians in New Jersey, whose Diary is considered a classic in Christian literature |
Jonathan Edwards | President of the College of New Jersey (Princeton) and wrote about spiritual revival in New England. Preached sermon "Sinners in the hands of an Angry God." |
Isaac Watts | to him is due the triumph of the hymn in worship |
Joseph Smith | founder of the heresy of Mormonism |
William Wilberforce | Christian member of the Parliament who worked to end slavery and the slave trade in the British Empire |
Charles Finney | pioneer of modern mass evangelism; Arminian |
Dwight L. Moody | evangelist who held campaigns in Britain and the USA and established a Bible Institute in Chicago |
William Booth | began the Salvation Army to minister to the lower classes |
Rousseau and Voltaire | Philosophers of the 'Age of Enlightenment' who opposed and ridiculed Biblical religion |
John Newton & William Cowper | wrote the Olney hymns |
George Muller | operated an orphanage for 2,000 children, never asking anyone for financial support |