A Handful of Stars

<p>Frank William Boreham OBE (3 March 1871 Tunbridge Wells Kent England – 18 May 1959 Melbourne Victoria) was a Baptist preacher best known in New Zealand Australia and England.</p><p><br />Boreham's birth coincided with the end of the Franco-Prussian War. He could say in later life "Salvoes of artillery and peals of bells echoed across Europe on the morning of my birth." He was one of 10 children.</p><p>Boreham heard the great American preacher Dwight L. Moody during his youth. On another occasion he was badly injured and spent considerable time in hospital recovering nursed by a Roman Catholic woman who widened his insight of ecumenism.</p><p>Boreham became a Baptist preacher after conversion to Christianity while working in London. He was probably the last student interviewed by Charles Spurgeon for entry into his Pastor's College. After graduation Boreham accepted a ministry at Mosgiel church Dunedin New Zealand in March 1895 and there began his prolific writings initially for the local newspaper.</p><p>He later was a pastor in Hobart Tasmania and then on mainland Australia in Melbourne at Armadale and Kew.</p><p>He notionally retired in 1928 at age 57 but continued to preach and write. During Billy Graham's evangelistic campaign in Australia in early 1959 Graham sought out Boreham for a discussion due in great part to Boreham's widely read and respected writings. (wikipedia.org)<br /> </p>