7 October 1936 A.D. Mr. (Rev.) Jonathan Goforth passes to eternity. A Canadian Presbyterian missionary to the Far East
7 October 1936 A.D. Mr. (Rev.) Jonathan Goforth passes to eternity. A Canadian Presbyterian missionary to the Far East. Dr. Rusten tells the story. Rusten, E. Michael and Rusten, Sharon. The One Year Christian History . Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2003. Available at: http://www.amazon.com/The-Year-Christian-History-Books/dp/0842355073/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393302630&sr=8-1&keywords=rusten+church+history Rev. Goforth’s motto was Zechariah 4.6. Rev. Goforth was born in 1859, one of eleven children, on a farm just outside London, ONT. He was struggling through high school, but a Presbyterian minister came to the high school to offer Bible studies. After the third Bible study, Mr. Goforth was moved to “close with Christ,” that is, commit himself to His Majesty. Mr. Goforth read and was moved by the testimony of a Church of Scotland minister’s book, The Memoirs of Robert Murray M’Cheyne.” As a result, he...