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 rights of minority races. Instead of a treatise on Effective Mentoring, F. W. Boreham in his inimitable way tells stories of how it worked for him and how pivotal such a relationship was in his own life and ministry. It would be good if seminary and denominational leaders put this book into the hands of every seminary student and pastor who are embarking on a new mentoring relationship. This short story about the friendship between J. J. Doke and Frank and Stella Boreham provides a wealth of insight and a hopeful vision of what a mentoring relationship might become (Dr. Geoff Pound). Please check out the other F. W. Boreham books published by John Broadbanks Publishing.
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I like the comments I received by email from a long-time family friend. His email was titled JJD, the name by which the subject of "Lover of Life," Joseph John Doke, was affectionately known. "I'm really glad you sent me the book. I read it cover to cover this morning in the quiet of our garden and put it down feeling the sense of tranquility that emanated from that man. He dedicated his life to bringing people together in matters large and small. His own lifestyle led him to become a revered teacher and master mediator. What I liked so much about the book is that it gets its points across by examples rather than preaching. Each chapter leaves its message. What a remarkable man! Our White House badly needs a person like him to mediate our positions in world affairs." These comments were written during the previous President's administration. --Anonymous Family Friend
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BOREHAM, FRANK WILLIAM (1871-1959), preacher and writer, was born on March 3, 1871 at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, eldest child of Francis Boreham, solicitor's clerk, and his wife Fanny Usher. He was educated and was later a pupil-teacher at Grosvenor United School, Tunbridge Wells. In December 1884 he became junior clerk with a local brickworks, where, in a locomotive accident, he lost his right foot, necessitating the life-long use of a stick. Late in 1887 he went to work as a clerk in London, becoming increasingly involved in church, debating and writing activities. Although his family was Anglican, he was baptized at Stockwell Old Baptist Church in 1890; he preached from pavement and pulpit and published "Won to Glory" in 1891. He was admitted to Spurgeon's College, London, in August 1892, serving as a student-minister at Theydon Bois, Essex, where he met Estella Maud Mary Cottee. In 1894 Boreham was called to the Scottish community at Mosgiel near Dunedin in New Zealand, and was inducted on March 17, 1895. Stella, then 18, followed to marry him at Kaiapoi on April 13, 1896. Boreham became president of the Baptist Union of New Zealand in 1902, and published "The Whisper of God and Other Sermons." He wrote editorials for the Otago Daily Times, contributed to theological journals and, as a keen temperance advocate, participated in liquor polls in 1905 and 1907. In June 1906 Boreham was called to the Baptist Tabernacle, Hobart. He edited the Southern Baptist and later the weekly Australian Baptist and in 1910 became president of the Tasmanian Baptist Union. His "George Augustus Selwyn" was published in 1911. He wrote a biographical series for the Hobart Mercury, which in 40 years covered 2000 persons; from 1912-1959 he contributed 2500 editorials to the Mercury and the Melbourne Age. Boreham's 80 publications, including religious works, homiletic essays and novels, sold over one million copies.
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This review is from: Lover of Life: F. W. Boreham's Tribute to His Mentor (Revised and Expanded) (Paperback)
I am a Boreham collector but most importantly a Boreham reader!!!! If you haven't yet purchased a copy of this book don't delay. If you're not aware this is a reprint of Boreham's original and nearly impossible to find book, "The Man Who Saved Ghandi", the story of his friend and mentor, J.J. Doke. This also includes an introductory essay by the man who probably knows the most about F.W. Boreham, Geoff Pound. So purchase this book and support this new publishing endeavor and hopefully we will see more "new" Boreham books published by the John Broadbanks Publishers.
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F W Boreham: Lover of Life,
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This review is from: Lover of Life: F. W. Boreham's Tribute to His Mentor (Revised and Expanded) (Paperback)
'Mr. Doke', as Boreham respectfully calls his friend and mentor, was by all accounts - or at least this one - a most amazing human being and pastor.
Here we have John Broadbanks Publishing's first effort at re-issuing out-of-print F W Boreham books. Congratulations to Geoff Pound and Michael Dalton for a beautifully put-together version of Boreham's 1948 book The Man Who Saved Gandhi: A Short Biography of Joseph John Doke. F W Boreham is Australia's and New Zealand's only really collectable religious author. So what was his special appeal? Well, he wrote about 50 very readable books (and over 2,000 newspaper articles), preached to large crowds in Hobart and Melbourne and around the world between the two World Wars, read thousands of books, but also had a pastoral 'common touch'. And here we meet his mentor: an amazing man. Doke was - all in one person - a brilliant preacher, wise counsellor, gifted pastor, a passionate and holy Christian, lover of Scripture (he read the Bible through four times most years) and highly committed to 'foreign missions' (he died on a journey to encourage missionaries in the middle of 'darkest Africa'). And he may have been the most authentic Christian Gandhi ever met. Which makes a puzzle out of the Mahatma's often-quoted comment "Oh, I don't reject your Christ. I love your Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike your Christ." Well, if we take Boreham's word for it, Doke was the man most-like-Christ of any he knew. And Doke was amazingly Christlike to the then little-known Gandhi when they met in South Africa. You can read these 34 pages in one sitting. Don't. Buy it for your pastor, but read it slowly first. Order some copies to give away. Shalom!/Salaam! [...]
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This review is from: Lover of Life: F. W. Boreham's Tribute to His Mentor (Revised and Expanded) (Paperback)
In the newly reprinted book, Lover of Life: F W Boreham's Tribute to his Mentor, the author draws back the curtain to pay tribute to one of his mentors, Joseph J Doke. "This is a tantalising sketch of a pastor, artist, author, who later in South Africa became a friend and freedom fighter with Mahatma Gandi in the struggle for the rights of minority races. Instead of a treatise on Effective Mentoring, F W Boreham in his inimitable way tells stories of how it worked for him and how pivotal such a relationship was in his own life and ministry".
The ministry of F W Boreham, as one of Australia's most prolific Christian authors is highly recognised. Dr Gordon Moyes once wrote, "I first read one of Dr Boreham's books in 1954. As a teenager I bought all I could find in second hand book shops. I read a chapter a day. Those books changed my habits for more than fifty years. ......Boreham taught me how to be a busy pastor of a church and at the same time write and communicate to a nation and our largest city. It was only after his death he became my most effective mentor. Fifty years ago, I learnt to repeat a famous introduction of him: "His name is on all our lips. His books are on all our shelves and his illustrations are in all our sermons." Now is the time for new generations to discover one of the greatest communicators and influential mentors in Christian history". "Lover of Life" provides a wealth of insight and hopeful vision of what a mentoring relationship might become, a book you will want to read more than once!
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