Samford University students and patrons of the university library can now draw inspiration and knowledge from a new collection of 1,000 biographies of Christian missionaries.
The Marla Haas Corts Missionary Biography Collection, a gift to Samford by President Thomas E. Corts in honor of his wife and in appreciation of her service to Samford, was formally presented during a ceremony Dec. 2.
The collection, housed in the Harwell Goodwin Davis Library, was first assembled in 1999 with a nucleus of volumes from the Cortes’ personal collection, garnered from their international travels, and has been added to since.
It includes biographies of missionaries such as Lottie Moon, Albert Schweitzer and others both familiar and less well known.
The lives recorded in the Missionary Biography Collection have much to teach us, said Marla Corts during the dedication ceremony.
“As long as their stories are preserved, they will serve as measuring points for our own journeys, and models as we strive to follow Christ’s example,” said Marla Corts. The stories, she noted, teach that “our faith is worth living and dying for.”
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