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Scroll Reader produces free Christian audiobooks featuring public-domain missionary biographies and historical Christian works. Many of these works are carefully revised and formatted to aid clear understanding when listened to, while seeking to preserve the original depth and substance of the writings. Each audiobook is presented through original narration and production. Scroll Reader also reprints selected works in physical form, available through Amazon.
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Feb 10, 2024 • 7h 55min
Hudson Taylor: In Early Years – The Growth of a Soul (Part 1) - Audiobook
Hudson Taylor: In Early Years – The Growth of a Soul by Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor with introduction by Mr. D.E. Hoste, General Director of China Inland Mission.
We hope you are greatly stirred and benefited by listening to the free audiobook of, “Hudson Taylor: In Early Years – The Growth of a Soul”.
(0:00) Preface
(10:02) Chapter 1 - As For Me And My House
(44:04) Chapter 2 - Unto Children's Children
(1:00:52) Chapter 3 - Set Apart Unto the Lord
(1:14:33) Chapter 4 - Nurture and Admonition
(2:10:15) Chapter 5 - The Finished Work of Christ
(2:36:13) Chapter 6 - Here I Am, Send Me
(3:05:58) Chapter 7 - Part 2 - Preparation For China
(3:32:02) Chapter 8 - No Good Thing Will He Withhold
(4:06:16) Chapter 9 - That I May Win Christ
(4:50:36) Chapter 10 - From Faith to Faith
(5:27:28) Chapter 11 - If It Be Thou, Be Me Come
(5:59:28) Chapter 12 - Part 3 - There Is Nothing Certain Except...
(6:18:56) Chapter 13 - The Lord Will Provide
(6:44:38) Chapter 14 - Light At Last
(7:17:43) Chapter 15 - I Will Never Leave Thee

Feb 10, 2024 • 11h 40min
Hudson Taylor: In Early Years – The Growth of a Soul (Part 2) - Audiobook
The following is Part 2 of Volume 1 of Hudson Taylor's biography, "Hudson Taylor: In Early Years – The Growth of a Soul." (Updated on 6/26/2025 to include the chapters that were missing.)(0:00) 16 – Arrival and First Experiences(30:54) 17 – Make It a Place of Springs(1:10:36) 18 – Building in Troublous Times(1:51:29) 19 – A Way of Escape(2:17:57) 20 – The First Evangelistic Journey(2:35:59) 21 – Our Plans of Usefulness(3:10:23) 22 – Not Where Christ Was Named(3:48:54) 23 – A Vision of His Life-Work(4:20:03) 24 – Emptied From Vessel to Vessel(4:49:54) 25 – Some Better Thing(5:07:31) 26 – A Parish of a Million(5:31:16) 27 – As Rivers of Water in a Dry Place(6:09:39) 28 – Under the Shadow of the Almighty(6:23:06) 29 – Stedfast, Unmovable(6:56:01) 30 – On Whom the Mantle Fell(7:20:18) 31 – My Thoughts Are Not Your Thoughts(7:50:16) 32 – Who Shutteth and No Man Openeth(8:13:45) 33 – By a Way That They Knew Not(9:00:01) 34 – The God That Is Enough(9:24:16) 35 – Ebenezer and Jehovah Jireh(9:34:39) 36 – Joy Cometh in the Morning(9:47:30) 37 – Perfect in One(9:57:16) 38 – Our Joy and Crown of Rejoicing(10:22:55) 39 – Fishers of Men(10:42:23) 40 – What Hath God Wrought(10:58:30) 41 – A Wealthy Place(11:14:49) 42 – Above All That Ye Ask or Think

Feb 10, 2024 • 4h 19min
David Brainerd: The Apostle To The North American Indians (Audiobook)
The author Jesse Page writes, “Above all he was a man who lived very near to Christ. Although often bewailing his coldness of heart and languor of love, one cannot help feeling that this man knew his Lord with reverent intimacy, and walked with Him, until the Divine hand opened the gate of everlasting bliss for His servant to enter, and go no more out for ever. Such high communion this man had, such glorious revelations of his Master’s presence, that his path through the dreary solitudes of forest and wilderness became hallowed ground. If the reading of Brainerd’s life teaches nothing else, it will not fail to impress everyone with a profound sense of what a consecrated man may be and do. Contact with such a character is inspiration, and to know his heart is to enter a sanctuary.”
(0:00) Preface
(8:15) Chapter 1 - John Eliot: His Forerunner In The Field
(26:59) Chapter 2 - The Puritan Youth
(43:53) Chapter 3 - The Student Expelled
(1:02:17) Chapter 4 - Among the Wigwams
(1:19:53) Chapter 5 - Faint Yet Pursuing
(1:40:37) Chapter 6 - After Many Days
(1:57:05) Chapter 7 - A Revival in Susquehanna
(2:14:05) Chapter 8 - The Light Spreads
(2:29:46) Chapter 9 - A Grateful Review
(2:44:49) Chapter 10 - The Sands Running Out
(3:03:26) Chapter 11 - The Day Draws To A Close
(3:25:42) Chapter 12 - Sweeping Through the Gates
(3:53:40) Chapter 13 - The Work Done And Being Done
(4:18:47) Closing - The End

Feb 10, 2024 • 10h 55min
The Story of John G. Paton—Thirty Years Among Cannibals (Audiobook)
(0:00) Introduction and Preface
(06:11) 1 - Our Cottage Home
(8:43) 2 - Our Forebears
(17:23) 3 - Consecrated Parents
(25:05) 4 - School Days
(33:21) 5 - Leaving The Old Home
(37:48) 6 - Early Struggles
(46:59) 7 - A City Missionary
(56:11) 8 - Glasgow Experiences
(1:06:40) 9 - A Foreign Missionary
(1:17:20) 10 - To The New Hebrides
(1:25:06) 11 - First Impressions of Heathendom
(1:31:24) 12 - Breaking Ground on Tana
(1:37:54) 13 - Pioneers In The New Hebrides
(1:52:18) 15 - At Home With Cannibals
(2:00:54) 16 - Superstitions and Cruelties
(2:08:57) 17 - Streaks of Dawn Admist Deeds of Darkness
(2:15:47) 18 - The Visit of H.M.S. "Cordelia"
(2:23:27) 19 - Noble Old Abraham
(2:28:32) 20 - A Typical South Sea Trader
(2:34:37) 21 - Under Axe and Musket
(2:39:44) 22 - A Native Saint and Martyr
(2:45:36) 23 - Building and Printing For God
(2:50:48) 24 - Heathen Dance and Sham Fight
(2:58:11) 25 - Cannibals at Work
(3:03:38) 26 - The Defying of Nahak
(3:11:31) 27 - A Perilous Pilgrimage
(3:21:06) 28 - The Plague of Measles
(3:28:04) 29 - Attacked With Clubs
(3:36:23) 30 - Kowia
(3:43:18) 30 - Martyrdom of the Gordon's
(3:58:24) 33 - The Visit of the Commodore
(4:07:34) 34 - The War Chief's In Counsel
(4:13:13) 35 - Under Knife and Tomahawk
(4:21:48) 36 - The Beginning of The End
(4:30:54) 37 - Five Hours In A Canoe
(4:37:31) 38 - A Race For Life
(4:42:26) 39 - Fainting Yet Pursuing
(4:51:23) 40 - Waiting At Kawmera
(4:58:25) 41 - The Last Long Awful Night
(5:03:22) 42 - Sail O, Sail O
(5:10:04) 43 - Farewell To Tanna
(5:16:58) 44 - To Australia For a Mission Ship
(5:25:08) 45 - In Swamp and Saddle
(5:40:46) 46 - To Scotland and Back
(5:46:48) 47 - The French In The Pacific
(6:02:23) 49 - A Plea For Tanna
(6:08:31) 50 - Our New Home on Aniwa
(6:13:56) 51 - House-building for God
(6:22:10) 52 - A City of God
(6:30:24) 53 - The Religion of Revenge
(6:36:14) 54 - First Fruits On Aniwa
(6:41:56) 55 - Traditions and Customs
(6:49:10) 56 - Nelwang's Elopement
(6:58:28) 57 - The Christ Spirit At Work
(7:05:09) 58 - The Sinking of The Well
(7:13:16) 58 - The Sinking Of The Well
(7:22:03) 60 - The Old Chief's Sermon
(7:32:04) 61 - The First Book And The New Eyes
(7:38:30) 64 - A Roof-Tree For Jesus
(7:45:00) 63 - Knock The Tevil Out!
(7:49:20) 64—The Conversion of Youwili
(7:56:38) 65 - The First Communion On Aniwa
(8:00:45) 66 - The New Social Order
(8:07:08) 67 - The Orphans and Their Biscuits
(8:12:47) 68 - The Finger-posts of God
(8:21:56) 69—The Gospel In Living Capitals
(8:27:32) 70 - The Death of Namakei
(8:33:47) 71 - Christianity and Coconuts
(8:40:11) 72 - Nerwa's Beautiful Farewell
(8:46:43) 73 - Ruwawa
(8:51:21) 74—Litsi Sore and Mungaw
(9:01:40) 75 - The Conversion of Nasai
(9:05:57) 76 - The Appeal of Lamu
(9:10:53) Wanted! A Steam Auxiliary
(9:18:48) 78 - England's Open Door
(9:23:32) 79 - Farewell Scenes
(9:31:04) 80 - Welcome To Victoria and Aniwa
(9:35:42) 81 - Good News From Tanna, 1891
(9:36:12) 81 - Good News From Tanna, 1891
(9:41:32) 82 - The Autobiography and The World Tour
(9:54:32) 83 - A New Dayspring and Death of The Traffic of Slaves
(9:59:12) 84 - Rev. Frank Paton - Missionary to Tanna
(10:07:46) 85 - The Wreck of the Dayspring
(10:16:43) 86 - Round the World Again at 86
(10:23:22) 87 - Back To the Islands Again and Yet Again
(10:37:14) 88 - The Passing of Mrs.
(10:45:43) 89 - The Home Call

Feb 10, 2024 • 3h 35min
The Darjeeling Disaster: Its Bright Side—The Triumph of the Six Lee Children (Audiobook)
Written by Ada Lee, preface by Wilma Morgan (1903). Ada Lee and her husband, missionaries to India, suffered one of the greatest sorrows that parents can suffer—the loss of six of their children. Yet God in His mercy, permitted the sorrowing parents to lift the veil off the mystery of their death and transition to heaven by letting one of their boys survive just long enough to tell the story and to give his mother the assurance of his own trusting the Lord before joining the multitude above.
(0:00) Preface
(06:11) Chapter 1 - The Himalayas
(16:08) Chapter 2 - Mrs. Lee
(29:00) Chapter 3 - Breaking The News
(41:21) Chapter 4 - The Catastrophe
(53:25) Chapter 5 - Perilous Journeys
(1:04:28) Chapter 6 - By Wilbur's Beside
(1:19:32) Chapter 7 - A Mother's Response To Tragedy
(1:26:39) Chapter 8 - Esther Denneti
(1:32:51) Chapter 9 - Ada Eunice
(1:44:13) Chapter 10 - Herbert Wilson
(1:59:38) Chapter 11 - Wilbur David
(2:14:10) Chapter 12 - Lois Gertrude
(2:34:50) Chapter 13 - Vida Maud
(2:58:50) Chapter 14 - Jessudar, The Bengali Girl
(3:04:44) Ushered Into Paradise - Poem
(3:09:20) Letters of Sympathy
(3:33:08) Conclusion

Feb 10, 2024 • 11h 36min
George Müller: His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God (Audiobook)
This audiobook is of the faith-stirring book, “George Müller of Bristol and His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God” by A.T. Pierson, published in 1899.
(0:00) Introduction and Preface
(7:24) Chapter 1 - From His Birth To His New Birth
(31:04) Chapter 2 - The New Birth and The New Life
(55:59) Chapter 3 - Making Ready The Chosen Vessel
(1:18:38) Chapter 4 - New Steps and Stages of Preparation
(1:39:28) Chapter 5 - The Pulpit and The Pastorate
(2:07:36) Chapter 6 - "The Narrative of the Lord's Dealings"
(2:34:31) Chapter 7 - Led of God Into a New Sphere
(3:00:44) Chapter 8 - A Tree of God's Own Planting
(3:27:44) Chapter 9 - The Growth of God's Own Plant
(3:58:11) Chapter 10 - The Word of God And Prayer
(4:28:45) Chapter 11 - Trials of Faith, And Helpers To Faith
(4:56:02) Chapter 12 - New Lessons In God's School of Prayer
(5:23:06) Chapter 13 - Following The Pillar of Cloud And Fire
(5:49:14) Chapter 14 - God's Building: The New Orphan Houses
(6:25:14) Chapter 15 - The Manifold Grace of God
(7:00:13) Chapter 16 - The Shadow of A Great Sorrow
(7:20:42) Chapter 17 - The Period of World-wide Witness
(7:57:49) Chapter 18 - Faith and Patience In Serving
(8:32:02) Chapter 19 - At Evening-time-Light
(8:52:50) Chapter 20 - A Summary of The Life's Work
(9:21:38) Chapter 21 - The Church Life and Growth
(9:54:38) Chapter 22 - A Glance At The Gifts and The Givers
(10:29:26) Chapter 23 - God's Witness To The Work
(11:03:39) Chapter 24 - Last Looks, Backward and Forward

Feb 10, 2024 • 3h 16min
Delivered by Desire | Truths About Christians & Sexual Purity (Audiobook)
Most men believe that accountability is the invincible weapon for fighting lust and overcoming pornography addiction, but many of us have found that this method falls short. It helps for a while, granted, due to the repulsive power of embarrassment. But what’s next? We need something more potent if we are to experience lasting victory. Book by Daryl Wingerd.
(0:00) Introduction
(0:22) Preface by Jim Elliff
(3:14) Section One—Face Reality
(3:42) Chapter 1 Two Men, a Park Bench, and a Confession
(8:25) Chapter 2 The Significance of Desire
(13:49) Chapter 3 The Anatomy of Desire
(22:31) Section Two - Despise Darkness
(24:40) Chapter 4 Irrationality 101
(30:54) Chapter 5 Marriage Poison
(37:00) Chapter 6 Fool's Vomit
(42:54) Section Three - Acknowledge Deliverance
(44:17) Chapter 7 New Creation
(53:03) Chapter 8 Obedient from the Heart
(1:00:04) Chapter 9 Body Language
(1:09:22) Chapter 10 The High Calling of Being Yourself
(1:20:52) Chapter 11 It Only Works by Faith
(1:31:46) Section Four - Experience Freedom
(1:32:44) Chapter 12 The Weapon That Works
(1:42:20) Chapter 13 Be Battle Ready
(1:50:57) Chapter 14 Prepare Your Mind for Action
(1:56:47) Chapter 15 Kill the Enemy
(2:06:38) Chapter 16 Follow Your Love Drive
(2:17:04) Chapter 17 Fight With the Church and For the Church
(2:29:01) Section Five - Additional Help
(2:30:32) Appendix A The Danger of Being Deceived
(2:36:54) Appendix B Is the Regenerate Heart Deceitful and Desperately Sick?
(2:51:46) Appendix C Abusing the Body Language of the New Testament
(2:54:05) Appendix D The Relationship Between Nature and Behavior
(3:03:30) Appendix E Have Christians Laid Aside the Old Self or Not?
(3:10:31) Appendix F Before Telling Your Wife
(3:12:30) Appendix G My Personal Story
(3:15:08) In Closing

Feb 10, 2024 • 2h 41min
How I Know God Answers Prayer (Audiobook)
(0:00) Introduction
(2:55) Chapter 1 - Getting Things From God
(7:08) Chapter 2 - Early Lessons In The Life of Faith
(16:30) Chapter 3 - Go Forward On Your Knees
(30:15) Chapter 4 - A God Given Field
(47:22) Chapter 5 - Our Deliverance From the Boxers
(1:17:33) Chapter 6 - Proving God's Faithfulness
(1:39:59) Chapter 7 - The Story of One Furlough
(1:57:23) Chapter 8 - Our God of The Impossible
(2:18:40) Chapter 9 - To His Praise!
(2:24:55) Conditions of Prevailing Prayer
(2:28:09) Causes of Failure In Prayer
(2:30:32) Chapter 10 - Victory Found
Prayer is powerful and God answers every prayer, no matter how we perceive it. This book is a testament to the power of prayer. With her husband and children, Rosalind Goforth served as a missionary in China. Her faith in God was proven time and time again if she trusted him and put her problems and difficulties in his hands and put her trust in him.

Feb 9, 2024 • 5h 50min
In Light of Eternity: The Life of Leonard Ravenhill (Part 2) (Audiobook)
(00:00:00) Introduction to Part 2 of Audiobook
(00:00:15) Chapter 20 - Marks of True Preaching
(00:26:57) Chapter 21 - Ravenhill's Theology
(01:03:53) Chapter 22 - Ravenhill's Theology Continued
(01:41:13) Chapter 23 - Evangelism God's Way
(02:09:48) Chapter 24 - Revival God's Way
(02:43:41) Chapter 25 - A Ministry of Letters
(03:12:58) Chapter 26 - More Letters
(03:36:52) Chapter 27 - Two Intimate Friends: Books and Hymns
(04:16:34) Chapter 28 - Only One Life: Home Forever
(04:57:09) Chapter 29 - Deep Appreciation
(05:20:47) Chapter 30 - Greatly Loved
(05:49:21) In Closing - The End
Listen to the free audiobook of the official biography of Leonard Ravenhill, written by Mack Tomlinson.
“Leonard Ravenhill was a man who was centered on prayer. His wife once told a close friend that Leonard regularly spent eight hours a day in prayer. This inward passion for God caused an outward cry for truth and holiness. He preached with a passion for revival all over the world, but especially in the United States, where he was especially burdened about what appeared to him to be a generally lukewarm “church”. He longed to see a mighty move of God in his day, and this passion came out in his preaching.” This audiobook was made with the permission of its author Mack Tomlinson.

Feb 9, 2024 • 9h 36min
In Light of Eternity: The Life of Leonard Ravenhill (Part 1) (Audiobook)
Listen to the free audiobook of the official biography of Leonard Ravenhill, written by Mack Tomlinson.
Chapters
(00:00) Preface and Introduction
(16:54) Chapter 1 - Introduction / Growing Up
(41:24) Chapter 2 - Apprehended by God: Leaving All
(55:14) Chapter 3 - Entrusted With The Gospel
(1:42:26) Chapter 4 - A Band of Brothers: The Holiness Trekkers
(2:03:06) Chapter 5 - Revival and the Calvary Holiness Movement
(2:16:45) Chapter 6 - Pastor Ravenhill
(2:47:27) Chapter 7 - Send the Light!
(3:05:50) Chapter 8 - Marriage and Family
(3:42:58) Chapter 9 - Moving to America
(4:07:02) Chapter 10 - Wider Preaching and World Missions
(4:26:01) Chapter 11 - New York City and Teen Challenge
(4:45:09) Chapter 12 - Onward In The Gospel
(5:26:15) Chapter 13 - On The Road Again
(6:04:22) Chapter 14 - Leonard, Last Days Ministries, and Texas Friends
(6:58:25) Chapter 15 - The Friday Night Prayer Meeting
(7:24:18) Chapter 16 - The Hidden Life of Prayer
(7:53:41) Chapter 17 - One Holy Passion
(8:22:21) Chapter 18 - Ravenhill and A.W. Tozer
(8:53:16) Chapter 19 - Preaching: The Most Serious Thing in the World
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“Leonard Ravenhill was a man who was centered on prayer. His wife once told a close friend that Leonard regularly spent eight hours a day in prayer. This inward passion for God caused an outward cry for truth and holiness. He preached with a passion for revival all over the world, but especially in the United States, where he was especially burdened about what appeared to him to be a generally lukewarm “church”. He longed to see a mighty move of God in his day, and this passion came out in his preaching.” This audiobook was made with the permission of its author Mack Tomlinson.


