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Lover of Life: F. W. Boreham’s Tribute to His Mentor is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many of us have our heroes but we often fail to recognize the people who helped to shape them. In Lover of Life the distinguished author Dr. F. W. Boreham draws back the curtain to pay tribute to one of his mentors, Joseph John Doke. This is a tantalizing sketch of a pastor, artist, author, who later in South Africa became a friend and freedom fighter with Mahatma Gandhi in the struggle for the...

and pacing the veranda in his characteristic way, “Read; and read systematically; and keep on reading; never give up!” “But give me a start,” I pleaded, “be definite; what shall I read first?” He walked the whole length of the veranda and back without replying. Then, approaching me with eyes that positively burned, he cried with tremendous emphasis: “Begin with Gibbon! Read Gibbon through and through! Don’t drop it because the first volume seems dry! Keep right on, and you’ll soon have no time for
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