![]() ![]() The sermon, preached from memory, and corresponding word for word with the manuscript, lasted for two hours. While he preached that morning his brother sat at the back of the pulpit with the preacher's manuscript in his hand, ready to prompt at the slightest hesitation. He had accepted this invitation to preach from the Mission's Director partly in the hope that it would help him to rise above his sorrows. Not yet thirty-four, he had lost his wife less than four months previously. What had brought this vast crowd together was not simply enthusiasm for the missionary enterprise initiated some twenty or so years earlier, but the growing reputation of the preacher. In the front row of the balcony sat many well known ministers of the day. In order to secure a seat the majority had arrived two or three hours before the service was due to commence. On the morning of Wednesday May 12th 1819 a vast throng of people filled the Surrey Chapel for the annual sermon of the London Missionary Society. ![]()
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