THEY WERE PILGRIMS
By Marcus L. Loane
Banner of Truth. 250 pages. £15.00
ISBN 0 85151 928 8
If you were told of a book with the biographies of four young men who were talented but ended their days in their early 30s, dying in uncomfortable circumstances from diseases caught and intensified by those circumstances, I guess you would not be queuing at your nearest Christian bookshop to acquire such a book. Tad gloomy? Not a bit!
The media has been trying to understand suicide bombers and why young, often talented people kill themselves and many others along with them. Revenge? Hate? Promise of an alluring paradise? So what about the four young men in these four biographies: David Brainerd, Henry Martyn, Robert Murray M’Cheyne, Ion Keith-Falconer?
