Charlesworth, V.J. - Rowland Hill; His Life Andecdotes and Pulpit Sayings (1879)
with an Introduction by Rev. C.H. Spurgeon
Rowland Hill was a popular English preacher at the independent old Surrey Chapel, author of Village Dialogues, a chairman of the Religious Tract Society, a trustee and stated contributor to The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, and a favorite of Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
The author and compiler of this printing, Vernon J. Charlesworth, was later co-pastor at the old Surrey Chapel decades after Hill, along with being a hymnist as well as headmaster of Spurgeon’s Stockwell Orphanage.
This volume is a great collection of biographical information and content on Rowland Hill, containing (among other things) many of the anecdotes, pulpit sayings and illustrations, and various sermons of his that display the fruit of his life labors.
“Several writers have commemorated Rowland Hill, but their works are not now in print, and hence the vacuum which the present volume will fill up. We see no reason why Rowland Hill and Surrey Chapel should ever be forgotten. Here is another stone for the cairn which keeps his resting-place conspicuous. The reader will be the best judge of the value of this memorial, but we feel no hesitation in introducing it to him as worthy of his attention, and no fear that he will fall asleep while reading it.” - excerpt from the Introduction by Rev. C.H. Spurgeon.
with an Introduction by Rev. C.H. Spurgeon
Rowland Hill was a popular English preacher at the independent old Surrey Chapel, author of Village Dialogues, a chairman of the Religious Tract Society, a trustee and stated contributor to The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, and a favorite of Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
The author and compiler of this printing, Vernon J. Charlesworth, was later co-pastor at the old Surrey Chapel decades after Hill, along with being a hymnist as well as headmaster of Spurgeon’s Stockwell Orphanage.
This volume is a great collection of biographical information and content on Rowland Hill, containing (among other things) many of the anecdotes, pulpit sayings and illustrations, and various sermons of his that display the fruit of his life labors.
“Several writers have commemorated Rowland Hill, but their works are not now in print, and hence the vacuum which the present volume will fill up. We see no reason why Rowland Hill and Surrey Chapel should ever be forgotten. Here is another stone for the cairn which keeps his resting-place conspicuous. The reader will be the best judge of the value of this memorial, but we feel no hesitation in introducing it to him as worthy of his attention, and no fear that he will fall asleep while reading it.” - excerpt from the Introduction by Rev. C.H. Spurgeon.
with an Introduction by Rev. C.H. Spurgeon
Rowland Hill was a popular English preacher at the independent old Surrey Chapel, author of Village Dialogues, a chairman of the Religious Tract Society, a trustee and stated contributor to The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, and a favorite of Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
The author and compiler of this printing, Vernon J. Charlesworth, was later co-pastor at the old Surrey Chapel decades after Hill, along with being a hymnist as well as headmaster of Spurgeon’s Stockwell Orphanage.
This volume is a great collection of biographical information and content on Rowland Hill, containing (among other things) many of the anecdotes, pulpit sayings and illustrations, and various sermons of his that display the fruit of his life labors.
“Several writers have commemorated Rowland Hill, but their works are not now in print, and hence the vacuum which the present volume will fill up. We see no reason why Rowland Hill and Surrey Chapel should ever be forgotten. Here is another stone for the cairn which keeps his resting-place conspicuous. The reader will be the best judge of the value of this memorial, but we feel no hesitation in introducing it to him as worthy of his attention, and no fear that he will fall asleep while reading it.” - excerpt from the Introduction by Rev. C.H. Spurgeon.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Edition: 1879
Page Count: 299 pages
Approx. Dimensions: 7.5x5”
Weight: 1.1 lbs
— Printed in London
CONDITION
Book is in Good + condition (what I would consider great for an 1870’s edition). Binding cloth has wear, and the webbing can be seen in some areas inside the book, but otherwise in fairly nice condition. Writing on inside of cover/ front endpaper, but other than that very clean and clear aged pages. A good edition of someone Spurgeon revered—especially enough to write an Introduction for, which he almost never did outside of their own Passmore & Alabaster works.
