<p>Frank William Boreham OBE (3 March 1871, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England &ndash; 18 May 1959, Melbourne, Victoria) was a Baptist preacher best known in New Zealand, Australia, and England.</p><p><br />
Boreham&#39;s birth coincided with the end of the Franco-Prussian War. He could say in later life, 'Salvoes of artillery and peals of bells echoed across Europe on the morning of my birth.' He was one of 10 children.</p><p>Boreham heard the great American preacher Dwight L. Moody during his youth. On another occasion he was badly injured and spent considerable time in hospital recovering, nursed by a Roman Catholic woman who widened his insight of ecumenism.</p><p>Boreham became a Baptist preacher after conversion to Christianity while working in London. He was probably the last student interviewed by Charles Spurgeon for entry into his Pastor&#39;s College. After graduation, Boreham accepted a ministry at Mosgiel church, Dunedin, New Zealand, in March 1895 and there began his prolific writings, initially for the local newspaper.</p><p>He later was a pastor in Hobart, Tasmania, and then on mainland Australia in Melbourne at Armadale and Kew.</p><p>He notionally retired in 1928 at age 57, but continued to preach and write. During Billy Graham&#39;s evangelistic campaign in Australia in early 1959 Graham sought out Boreham for a discussion, due in great part to Boreham&#39;s widely read and respected writings. (wikipedia.org)<br />
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