Harvey, Edwin F.: - When Edwin and Lillian Harvey were sent to the UK in 1938 as missionaries from their church in America, they doubtless had no idea that posterity would remember them, not so much for their role as directors of a Bible College in Glasgow, or the leaders of an evangelical mission known in England as the M.O.V.E. (Message of Victory Evangelism), but rather as authors of thirty devotional books and the founders of Harvey Christian Publishers, USA. Without extensive topical, textual, and biographical files, however, this small family publishing would never have come into existence. Confined to bed with bronchitis for weeks on end due to the long, damp British winters, Lillian read every Christian magazine and book which came into her possession. Already co-editor with her husband of the bimonthly magazine, The Message of Victory, and always on the lookout for fresh material, she avidly culled any quotations or articles which blessed her heart and filed them methodically away under various topics. Then, one day, Edwin and Lillian were impressed by the following verses from the fortieth Psalm: Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following. (Psalms 48:12,13). They visualized Zion's towers as her prophets and watchmen, Zion's bulwarks-her reformers and defenders of the faith, and Zion's palaces-those human dwellings made beautiful and majestic by the presence of the King of kings. This vision materialized into a commission to make these prophets, reformers, and saints known to future generations through the books they would jointly write and compile.
Harvey, Lillian G.: - When Edwin and Lillian Harvey were sent to the UK in 1938 as missionaries from their church in America, they doubtless had no idea that posterity would remember them, not so much for their role as directors of a Bible College in Glasgow, or the leaders of an evangelical mission known in England as the M.O.V.E. (Message of Victory Evangelism), but rather as authors of thirty devotional books and the founders of Harvey Christian Publishers, USA. Without extensive topical, textual, and biographical files, however, this small family publishing would never have come into existence. Confined to bed with bronchitis for weeks on end due to the long, damp British winters, Lillian read every Christian magazine and book which came into her possession. Already co-editor with her husband of the bimonthly magazine, The Message of Victory, and always on the lookout for fresh material, she avidly culled any quotations or articles which blessed her heart and filed them methodically away under various topics. Then, one day, Edwin and Lillian were impressed by the following verses from the fortieth Psalm: Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following. (Psalms 48:12,13). They visualized Zion's towers as her prophets and watchmen, Zion's bulwarks-her reformers and defenders of the faith, and Zion's palaces-those human dwellings made beautiful and majestic by the presence of the King of kings. This vision materialized into a commission to make these prophets, reformers, and saints known to future generations through the books they would jointly write and compile.
