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Product ID
9781845502430
ISBN/Barcode
9781845502430
Publisher
Christian Focus
Binding
Paperback
Pages
208
Author(s)
Bob Holman
Series
History Makers
Description

On F. B. Meyer's death in 1929 The Daily Telegraph called him ‘The Archbishop of the Free Churches'. The New York Observer noted that ‘He has an international fame and his services are constantly sought by churches over the wide and increasing empire of Christendom.' To the secular press of his time he was a key player on the world scene - yet this is the first chronological account of Meyer's life. Meyer was the minister one of Britain's first ‘megachurches'. He was friends with D. L. Moody and ministered on both sides of the Atlantic. Mirroring in America what D. L. Moody was able to undertake in the U.K. He came from a conventional, middle class Victorian background and experienced no dramatic conversion. He was not a distinguished scholar or dramatic orator. His slight figure and retiring manner meant that he did not stand out in a crowd. Yet he drew crowds by the thousands, wrote books, which sold by the millions, and attracted working class people.The range of Meyer's activities is astonishing: preacher, pastor, writer, social activist, free church leader, Baptist president, advocate for missionary work and more. In his last years, he declared, ‘If I had a hundred lives, they should be at Christ's disposal.' At times, it seemed as though he was living a hundred lives!

About Bob Holman:

 

Bob Holman was Professor of Social Policy at Bath University. He lived and worked in 2 deprived areas for 26 years. He has written academic books and a biography of Gorge Lansbury – Christian socialist leader of the Labour party. He continues to write a weekly column in The Herald. Now ‘retired’ he is still active as a visiting Professor at Glasgow and Swansea Universities.

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