Heroes and Saints

Max Christensen brings to life heroes and saints from the past and present who have inspired human beings to reach higher and live more fruitful lives. These highly entertaining biographical sketches of people such as Joan of Arc, John Calvin, and Marian Anderson pay tribute to individuals who found the grace and strength to change our world for the better, forever.

Works Consulted

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Introduction

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Part I. Heroes of Old

1

(14)

The Teenaged Reformer--King Akhenaton

3

(2)

The Wisdom Tree--Gautama Buddha

5

(2)

The Range Boss--Confucius

7

(2)

The Death of a Gadfly--Socrates

9

(2)

What Is Islam?--The Legacy of the Prophet Muhammad

11

(2)

The Greatest Rabbi?--Moses Maimonides

13

(2)

Part II. Early Saints

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(34)

The Saints Be Praised!--``A Quiet and Holy People''

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(2)

The Price Tag--St. Ignatius of Antioch

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(2)

The Second Chance--Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna

21

(2)

A Very Early African Saint--Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage

23

(2)

The First Valentine--St. Valentine

25

(2)

The Importunate Widow--St. Monica

27

(2)

A Saint, the Son of a Saint--St. Augustine

29

(2)

The Dream of Jerome--St. Jerome

31

(2)

The Children's Voices--St. Patrick

33

(2)

The Man with the Golden Mouth--St. John Chrysostom

35

(3)

The Wild One--St. Francis of Assisi

38

(3)

The Stubborn Ox--St. Thomas Aquinas

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(2)

The Drudge--St. Catherine of Siena

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(2)

The Secret--St. Joan of Arc

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(2)

The Monk Who Wasn't--Ernest Temple Hargrove

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(2)

Part III. Reformation Era Heroes and Their Heirs

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(32)

Saint without a Halo: Germany's Greatest Son--Martin Luther

51

(3)

Sustained by a Sense of Divine Mission--John Calvin

54

(2)

Freedom: The Necessary Burden

56

(3)

An Apprentice Shoemaker Leads a World Movement--George Fox

59

(2)

Mother's ``Method'' Blesses Millions--Susannah Wesley

61

(2)

The Small Giant--John Wesley

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(3)

Setting the Record Straight about ``Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God''--Jonathan Edwards

66

(2)

The Lawyer and the Printer--Andrew Hamilton and John Peter Zenger

68

(2)

The Skinny Elf--Voltaire

70

(2)

Painting for God's Glory--Benjamin West

72

(2)

The Declaration of the Rights of the Child

74

(2)

A Coincidence?--William Holmes McGuffey

76

(3)

The Devil's Doctor?--James Simpson

79

(2)

Part IV. Nineteenth-Century Notables

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(20)

The Angry Poet--Emma Lazarus

83

(2)

The Prize--Alfred Nobel

85

(2)

The Hatchet Job--Carry Nation

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(2)

The Lost Soul--Robert Louis Stevenson

89

(3)

The Portrait--Father Damien

92

(2)

How the Wild Irish Rose--Turning the Tides of Fortune

94

(2)

The Philosopher's Touchstone--William James

96

(2)

The Last Heretic--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

98

(3)

Part V. Today's Roll Call of Honor

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(20)

Helen Keller's Three Lives--Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan

103

(3)

In Memoriam: Margaret Sanger

106

(2)

The Roll of Honor--Ralph Bunche

108

(2)

Song of the Deep River--Marian Anderson

110

(2)

The Chaplains of Hell

112

(2)

Veterans Day on Okinawa

114

(1)

The Unworthy Speech--Abraham Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address

115

(2)

The Babe's Main Event--``Babe'' Didrickson Zaharias

117

(2)

Points of Light: The Great Invocation--Words of Wisdom and Inspiration

119

(2)

Epilogue

121

(2)

Index

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