William Garrett Lewis
William Garrett Lewis (1821–1885)
Influence
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Lewis co-founded the
Spurgeon was encouraged by this fellow Baptist preacher, while he was beginning his ministry at the age of 19.[clarification needed][citation needed]
Taylor, who was a member of Lewis' congregation, had lectured about the need for missionary work to be done in China, and as a result of compiling his lecture material into a book form, hundreds of missionaries were inspired to follow him back to China in the 1800s. Lewis was Taylor's pastor during the formative time of the
Lewis was undoubtedly closely associated[citation needed] with the Anti-Opium Campaign led by another member of his congregation, Benjamin Broomhall, who sought to end British trade in the drug in China. The Broomhall children, too, grew up under the influence of this man, including author and missionary Marshall Broomhall.[citation needed]
Lewis, speaking at the ceremony of laying the first stone of the new Metropolitan Tabernacle for the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, which took place on Tuesday 16 August 1859, said the following.
I feel constrained to address my brethren in the ministry also to hear the appeal which God in his providence makes to them, to be faithful, uncompromising, simple, and bold in their declaration of gospel truths.[3]
—William Garrett Lewis
In January 1881, Lewis was appointed to the pastorate of Dagnall Street Baptist Church. He died in 1885, before the building was finished, and the stained-glass window at the rear of the church was dedicated to him.[4]
Works authored
- Westbourne Grove Sermons 1872
- The Trades and Industrial Occupations of the Bible Religious Tract Society 1874
References
- Broomhall, Alfred (1984). Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century: Survivors' Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton.
- Spurgeon, Charles(1860). The New Park Street Pulpit. London: Passmore and Alabaster.
- Turner, Derek (1999). With Cheerful Zeal : A History of the Dagnall Street Baptist Church. London: private.
Notes
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16611. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Broomhall (1984), 449
- ^ Spurgeon (1860)
- ^ Turner (1999)
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