Christopher Crayon's Recollections: The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himselfRitchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
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Christopher Crayon's Recollections: The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself
Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing), 1820-1898
Let me chronicle a few more names. Dr. Andrew Reed, whose occasional
sermons at other places—I never heard him at Wycliffe Chapel—were most
effective; Morris of Fetter Lane, who preached to a crowded audience with
what seemed to me at the time a slight touch of German mysticism;
Stratten, far away in Paddington, whom rich people loved to listen to, as
he was supposed to be a man of means himself; and old Leifchild at Craven
Chapel, filled to overflowing with a crowd who knew, however the dear old
man might prose in the opening of his sermon, he would go off with a bang
at the end. But I may not omit two Churchmen who, if they had not
Melville’s power, had an equal popularity. One was the Hon. and Rev.
Baptist Noel, who preached in a church, long since pulled down, in
Bedford-row. He was tall, gentlemanly, silver-tongued, and perfectly
orthodox. His people worshipped him, for was he not the son of a lord?
His influence in London was immense, but he left the Church for
conscientious reasons, and became a Baptist minister. That was a blow to
his popularity which he never got over, though he lived to a grand old
age. Another popular Evangelical preacher was Dale, who preached at St.
Bride’s, Fleet Street. He was a poet and more or less of a literary man;
but he had more worldly wisdom than Baptist Noel. Dale was a Professor
of Literature at University College; but it was understood that
University College, with its liberal institutions, with its Dissenters
and Jews, was no place for a Churchman who wished to rise. Dale saw
this, gave up his professorship in Gower Street, and reaped a rich
reward.
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