The They Found the Secret

<p><strong>Explore the lives of twenty Christian figures whose powerful testimonies and lives of service will inspire you to embrace Christ as the secret to abundant living.</strong></p><p>Written by V. Raymond Edman who is best remembered as the fourth president of Wheaton College in Illinois and as the writer of many devotional books <em>They Found the Secret</em> shares the failures hardships yearnings accomplishments and ultimate hope and faith of twenty well-known and little-known Christians.</p><p>There are those of yesteryear like <strong>John Bunyan</strong> and of more recent years like <strong>Richard C. Halverson </strong>and <strong>William P. Nicholson</strong>. There are clergymen like <strong>A. J. Gordon</strong> and laymen like <strong>Dwight L. Moody</strong>. Some are well known like <strong>Charles G. Finney </strong>and<strong> Oswald Chambers</strong> while others may be little known or even quite forgotten like <strong>J. A. Wood</strong>. There are mystics like <strong>Andrew Murray</strong> and practical men like <strong>Charles G. Trumbull</strong> and <strong>Robert E. Nicholas</strong>. There are women as well as men: <strong>Frances Ridley Havergal </strong>of England <strong>Amy Carmichael</strong> of India and <strong>Eugenia Price</strong> of contemporary America.</p><p>The details of each of their experiences are quite different yet as you listen to their stories and watch their lives you will see a pattern that reveals their secret: Out of discouragement and defeat they have come into victory. Out of weakness and weariness they have been made strong. Out of ineffectiveness and apparent uselessness they have become efficient and enthusiastic.</p><p>Their collective testimony to the reality of the joy and power of the Spirit-filled life is unanimous. Their lives and work have shaped the Christian faith and paved the way for those who have come after them. And from their stories you too can find the path to deeper faith and a more vital relationship with God.</p>