Martyrdom of Jim Elliot and his missionary team, 1956

Yesterday evening I browsed through a local LifeWay bookstore with my children. Just before we left I noticed a display stand that had a number of beautifully reprinted classic biographies. Upon further investigation I discovered that they were Hendrickson's Classic Biographies Series. This is a series I had overlooked during 2008 but would have gladly been included on my list of Noteworthy Book Recommendations 2008. In this series is a reprinting of Elizabeth Elliot's Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot. The story of Jim Elliot was a great inspiration to me during my college years, and while I contemplated service on the foreign mission field. This book truly is a classic and it ought to owned and read by every Christian family.

Fred Sanders has written another fine article (Today Jim Elliot Was Killed [1956]) on the martyrdom of Jim Elliot and his friend on January 8, 1956.

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Other titles in the Hendrickson Classic Biography Series are as follows:

• Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret by Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor
  
• Saint Francis of Assisi by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• George Müller of Bristol by Arthur T. Pierson
• Fanny J. Crosby an autobiography
• Born Again by Charles W. Colson
• The Heart of John Wesley's Journal selected and edited by Percy Livingston Parker

forthcoming:

• Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland Bainton
• The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
• A Love Observed: Joy Davidman's Life & Marriage to C. S. Lewis by Lyle W. Dorsett
  

All of these volumes are hardback (cloth) with dust jackets and have been freshly typeset. These truly are beautiful volumes, some of which I only own in paperback editions. At very affordable prices this series of biographies would serve the Christian home very well. I can think of other biographies that ought to be in this series, but they may be in the works already.

Martyrdom of Jim Elliot and his missionary team, 1956