Thomas Cochrane and the Dragon Throne

Thomas Cochrane and the Dragon Throne
Author: Andrew E. Adam
Publisher: SPCK
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0281080372

In 1897, Tom Cochrane, a young doctor, arrived with his bride in Inner Mongolia, China’s northernmost territory. Three years later, after labouring single-handedly in a mud-floored dispensary, he realized that his work was a drop in a sea of suffering. A radical new approach was needed. He was gripped by the vision of a Western medical college and teaching hospital in Peking. In 1900, the Boxer uprising broke out. Fanatics roamed the countryside crying, ‘Kill the foreigners! Kill them before breakfast!’ The Cochranes and their three little boys fled as thirty thousand Christians and hundreds of missionaries were butchered. Undeterred, Tom returned to Peking in 1901 to treat beggars and lepers in converted mule stables. After bringing a major cholera epidemic under control, he won allies at the imperial court. With the help of the chief eunuch, he gained the support of the dreaded Empress Dowager. In 1906, Cochrane established the Union Medical College in Peking, China’s first Western medical school. It still stands today, a prestigious academic centre, its missionary origins forgotten, but it is one of countless seeds planted by Christians in China.

Mining for Gold

Mining for Gold
Author: Tom Camacho
Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2019-06-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1783599332

Godly thriving leaders are precious and valuable, but developing those leaders is not easy. Many leaders feel stuck, tired and frustrated in their growth and calling. This can change. In Mining for Gold, pastor and master-coach, Tom Camacho, offers a fresh perspective on how to draw out the best in ourselves and in those around us. Cutting through the complexity and challenges of leadership development, he gives us practical and effective tools to help leaders grow personally and develop those around them. Coaching, through the power of the Holy Spirit, provides the clarity and momentum we need to grow. When we get clarity, everything changes. Coaching helps us better understand our identity in Christ, our God-given wiring, and how we naturally bear the most fruit. There is gold in God’s people, waiting to be discovered. Let’s learn to draw out that treasure and help others flourish in their life and leadership.

Twice-Rescued Child

Twice-Rescued Child
Author: Thomas Graumann
Publisher: SPCK
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2019-10-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0281083142

Aged eight, Thomas Graumann excitedly boarded a train in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to embark on what he believed was a three-month holiday. “Go to Britain, learn English, and when the Germans leave, you can come home again,” his mother assured him. Thomas carried two suitcases and a bag of food. At the time he knew his country had been taken over by the Germans and now was under Nazi control. That was the last he would see of his mother and most of his Jewish family, who died in concentration camps. He had also never heard of Nicholas Winton, the hero who saved 669 children (Thomas was one of the last, #652), transporting them from Czechoslovakia to the UK to save their lives. This was Thomas’ first rescue, aboard what became known as the Kindertransport. His second came a year later when an evangelist from the Scottish village he was taken to for safety shared the good news of Jesus Christ with him. Saying a prayer on bent knee, Thomas’ soul was rescued, and he soon dedicated himself to missionary service, which he fulfilled as an adult in the Philippines, eventually moving to the U.S. But his missionary zeal returned after the fall of Communism—and the return of his grandmother’s property to his family. Both actions ushered in a way for him to return to the Czech Republic. The former rescued child was now free to travel throughout his homeland, speaking in schools of how he was rescued ... not once, but twice.

Thomas Cochrane and the Dragon Throne

Thomas Cochrane and the Dragon Throne
Author: ANDREW. ADAM
Publisher: Monarch Books
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-10-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9780857218469

Thomas Cochrane was a young Scottish doctor, who asked the London Missionary Society to send him to 'the neediest place on earth' where he could both practice medicine and share the gospel. So he and his wife travelled to Mongolia in the last years of the 19th century, and found a desperately poor country, in which they struggle to live and make a difference. Having started to work with the Reverend Liddell and his wife, parents of Olympic runner Eric Liddell, they all escape death in the violent Boxer Rebellion, in which thousands of foreigners die. The Cochranes then return to carry on their mission in the Chinese capital city, Peking. There Thomas Cochrane manages to forge a relationship with the powerful Empress-Dowager, enabling him not only to treat more Chinese people but to found the first medical college, which still thrives today.

The Boxer Uprising

The Boxer Uprising
Author: Victor Purcell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2010-06-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521148122

Dr Prucell examines the origin and development of the Boxer Uprising of 1900.

The Worry Book

The Worry Book
Author: Will Van der Hart
Publisher: Path to Freedom
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Anxiety
ISBN: 9781844745432

New perspectives and balanced, practical solutions for all who worry and those who try to help them

Why Trust the Bible?

Why Trust the Bible?
Author: Greg Gilbert
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2015-10-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433543494

The Bible stands at the heart of the Christian faith. But this leads to an inescapable question: why should we trust the Bible? Written to help non-Christians, longtime Christians, and everyone in between better understand why God’s Word is reliable, this short book explores the historical and theological arguments that have helped lead millions of believers through the centuries to trust the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. Written by pastor Greg Gilbert, author of the popular books What Is the Gospel? and Who Is Jesus?, this volume will help Christians articulate why they trust the Bible when it comes to who God is, who we are, and how we’re supposed to live.

English and Empire

English and Empire
Author: David West Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108591876

Combining statistical modelling and archival study, English and Empire investigates how African diasporic, Chinese, and Indian characters have been voiced in British fiction and drama produced between 1768 and 1929. The analysis connects patterns of linguistic representation to changes in the imperial political economy, to evolving language ideologies that circulate in the Anglophone world, and to shifts in sociocultural anxieties that crosscut race and empire. In carrying out his investigation, David West Brown makes the case for a methodological approach that links the distant (quantitative) and close (qualitative) reading of diverse digital artefacts. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book will appeal to a variety of scholars and students including sociolinguists interested in historical language variation, as well as literary scholars interested in postcolonial studies and the digital humanities.

Publisher and Bookseller

Publisher and Bookseller
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1328
Release: 1898
Genre: Bibliography
ISBN:

Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.