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How to Pray is a powerful treatise on prayer first published in 1900. The author, Reuben Archer Torrey (1856 - 1928), was an educator and evangelist who wrote more than 40 books. In How To Pray, he explains the essence of prayer, what it can achieve, and the proper occasion for prayer. Contending that many prayers are not answered because they are not intelligently offered, Torrey examines the moods, the methods, and the meanings of prayer.

Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899), also known as D. L. Moody, was an evangelist and publisher connected with the Holiness Movement. He founded the Moody Church, Northfield School, and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts, the Moody Bible Institute, and Moody Publishers. Moody was associated with famous evangelists of his time, like the Scottish Reverend Andrew A. Bonar and the Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. This audiobook comprises sermons of his delivered in various cities in the US and the UK. The text discusses the love of God as the source of all gifts of grace.

In his book Humility, first published in 1895, the South African pastor Andrew Murray points to the example of Jesus who made himself nothing by taking the nature of a servant. The author gives this as an example of true nobility and regards it as the distinguishing feature of discipleship. Murray calls on all Christians to turn from pride, study the character of Christ and empty themselves in order to be filled with God’s grace.

This piece by Andrew Murray is an inspirational Christian classic. In it, he describes the benefits when one completely surrenders to God.

Andrew Murray (1828-1917) was a South African Christian pastor and an internationally known author of numerous Christian books. This enduring classic, published in 1896, was written to assist believers to pray in the right way. The book is based on the way that Christ taught his disciples to pray, and the style is simple and engaging. The chapters are titled, "The Model Prayer", "Pray to Thy Father in Secret", "In Spirit and in Truth or The True Worshippers", and "The Only Teacher".

G. Campbell Morgan was one of Britain's prominent Bible scholars during the early 20th century. Morgan was a prolific writer and teacher, and the pastor of Westminster Chapel in London from 1904 to 1917 and 1933 to 1945. The work examines God’s dealings with man, from Genesis to Revelation.

A.B. Simpson, the founder of an Evangelical Protestant denomination, the Christian and Missionary Alliance, remains a popular author among all Christian denominations. His book Danger Lines in the Deeper Life explores some of the conflicts that Christians encounter in trying to maintain a spiritual life, with reference to the book of Judges. Unlike in his usual inspirational writing, Simpson here points out the flaws of the institutional church and the compromises it reaches with worldly challenges.

In this sermon, the preacher A.B. Simpson warns that mankind has become so much in love with itself that it is in danger of overlooking God. He argues that the devil is trying to get the supernatural out of the Bible, out of the church, and out of individual Christian lives in an attempt to reduce religion to a human science. Against this trend, stands God’s revelation of the supernatural, the author points out.

Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843 - 1919) was a popular speaker and pastor, founder of a major evangelical denomination, and author of more 70 books. This work discusses emblems from scripture, like Emblems from the Story of Creation, Emblems from the Story of the Fall, Emblems from Antediluvian Times, Emblems from the Life of Moses, and many more.

The Life of Prayer is a book on prayer by the evangelist A. B. Simpson who passionately believed that prayer undergirds all ministry. The work comprises the chapters "The Pattern Prayer", "Encouragements to Prayer", "In His Name", "The Prayer of Faith", and "Hindrances to Prayer".

Canadian Evangelical A.B. Simpson has delivered many iconic sermons on deepening our religious life and the healing character of faith. In Days of Heaven Upon Earth, Simpson applies these two concepts in one book. He offers us some thought-provoking meditations on every day of the year, so we can better incorporate religion in every moment of our lives.

But God is considered to be one of A.B. Simpson's best works. In this book, he discusses his feelings on some of the books within the Old Testament.

Canadian preacher and theologian A.B. Simpson devotes these 10 chapters to the significance of the cross and resurrection of Christ. The cross of Christ has not only reached the status of the ultimate symbol of martyrdom but also carries our own liberation from sin. Simpson takes this a couple of steps further and expands on the presence of the cross in everything, both earthly and divine, and how its mark defines our greater destiny.