A FAMOUS EVANGELIST.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13727, 17 August 1908, Page 5

A FAMOUS EVANGELIST.

DEATH OF IRA D. SANKEY. j

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. • - NEW YORK, August 15 Ira David Sankey, the noted ovangelist, is dead.

[•'Sankey's Hymns'' aro a household institution among the members of Evangelistic churches in Englishspeaking countries. This little book has had a larger circulation than any other hymnal ever published. As an evangelist Sankey probnbly achieved greater renown than any man since Wesley's time. He was associated in this- work for 29 years with :he late Dwight L. Moody. After the death of Moody he continued lecturing for some years. 11 o Avas born at Ediubugh, Pennsylvania, on September 28, 1840.]