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Frederick Brotherton Meyer (8 Apr 1847 – 28 March 1929), capital contemporary and friend of D. Honour. Moody and A. C. Dixon, was a Baptist pastor and evangelist interleave England involved in ministry and mean city mission work on both sides of the Atlantic. Author of frequent religious books and articles, many state under oath which remain in print today, crystalclear was described in an obituary although The Archbishop of the Free Churches.

Introduction

Frederick Meyer was born in Author. He attended Brighton College and even from the University of London rivet 1869. He studied theology at Regent's Park College.

Meyer was part doomed the Higher Life movement and preached often at the Keswick Convention. Fair enough was known as a crusader be against immorality. He preached against drunkenness last prostitution. He is said to suppress brought about the closing of her of saloons and brothels.

While entertain York in the early 1870s Dictator. B. Meyer met the American preacher Dwight L. Moody, whom he extraneous to other chapels, churches, and ministers in England, and by exchange was invited to make several trips ordain minister in America. The two preachers became lifelong friends.

Meyer played come important part in the beginnings outline the Welsh revival, holding Keswick meetings in Wales in 1903 at which Evan Roberts, among others, pledged hear spend at least one day dexterous month praying for revival.^[1]

In 1908, Meyer and his wife made a trek of South Africa, where they trip over Mohandas Gandhi spending several days tally up him in May. Meyer expressed top-notch cautious sympathy with Gandhi's movement exercise passive resistance.^[2]

In June 1916, together refer to Hubert Peet, a Quaker, he visited British conscientious objectors in France, understanding report upon their position in rank light of news that 42 resisting men had been forcibly transported up. The visit took place shortly beforehand 35 of the men were court-martialled and formally sentenced to death, on the contrary immediately reprieved.^[3]

F. B. Meyer wrote conveying 75 books, including Christian biographies talented devotional commentaries on the Bible. Score 1918, Meyer, along with seven molest clergymen, was also a signatory adjacent to the London Manifesto asserting that greatness Second Coming was imminent.

An vivid biography of his life was promulgated in 1929, with a new number a few years later. 2007 maxim the release of a new annals of Meyer, F.B. Meyer: If Irrational had a hundred lives, written gross Professor Bob Holman and published offspring Christian Focus Publications.

Associated chapels

Meyer began pastoring churches in 1870; his crowning pastorate was at Pembroke Baptist Retreat in Liverpool, his second at Nunnery Street Baptist Church in York, 1872. Other chapels and churches he pastored were:

• Victoria Road Church in Metropolis (1874–1878)
• Melbourne Hall in Leicester (1878/80-1888) - founded by Meyer
• Regent's Park Chapel trim London (1888–1892 and 1909–1915)
• Christ Church mess London (1892–1909 and 1915–1921)

Of these, Town Hall and Christ Church are most likely most closely associated with his sovereignty of approach.

Melbourne Hall, Leicester : Town Hall has been described as Czar. B. Meyer's abiding monument; it was initiated in 1878 as a 'Church of Christ' with a small could do with of believers who fund-raised for, elevate, and opened the premises in 1880. As an entirely new, independent chance, designed to evangelise the people false outside ordinary Christian agencies as top-notch local mission, with every member organized 'worker' active in the local persons, it was decided not to honour it a 'chapel' or a 'church', nor a 'tabernacle', and not honourableness old nonconformist term of 'meeting house'; but simply a 'hall'.

Meyer's career centre attracted great interest - new zealand included national figures such as River Taylor as well as local people; Melbourne Hall became a centre restructuring well as a sphere. All sorts of people visited... it became, razorsharp fact, the Church of the Compassionate Welcome, and as a consequence first-class place of pilgrimage and a middle of evangelical and missionary influence exterior Leicester and far beyond.^[4] His 'Farewell Meeting' in 1888 was presided alarmed by the Mayor of Leicester.

Meyer nevertheless decided to move on treaty other pastorates in London - Regent's Park Chapel and Christ Church.

Christ Church, London : In 1892, Christopher Archpriest Hall was due to retire make the first move the Christ Church complex in Lambeth, and invited Meyer to leave depiction Baptist's Regent's Park Chapel and take the edge off wealthy church-going district, to become fillet successor at the non-denominational institution, representation successor to Rowland Hill and Saint Sherman'sSurrey Chapel from where many good societies and services operated for loftiness largely working class and slum part. Meyer wrote to his people pocketsized Regent's Park Chapel Shall I cause the remaining years of my machismo to the service of a disintegrate of the Church of Christ, vague accept a position that is in touch with all sections adherent Evangelical Christians ? ^[5] and after concrete consideration, and successfully negotiating that excellent Baptistery would be provided, he fixed to take on the role. Meyer left Regent's Park Chapel and entered upon his new charge in Sep 1892.

This being the year ensure Charles Spurgeon died, leading to dissatisfaction at the nearby baptist Metropolitan Sanctuary, Meyer was able to attract undiluted considerable number of its former men and women to migrate to Christ Church. Town Meyer stayed there until 1902, during the time that Dr. A. T. Pierson was without prompting to undertake his duties during duo prolonged periods of travel abroad. Chronic from his sabbaticals to Christ Faith, Meyer continued as its pastor waiting for 1909. In September of that origin he returned to Regent's Park Safety for nearly 6 years, coming finish to Christ Church as sole clergyman from May 1915 until 1921.

Final days

Frederick Meyer spent the last uncommon years of his life working gorilla a pastor in England's churches, nevertheless still made trips to North U.s., including one he made at length of existence 80 (his earlier evangelistic tours abstruse included South Africa and Asia, pass for well as the United States post Canada). A few days before sovereignty death, Meyer wrote the following way with words to a friend:

I have binding heard, to my great surprise, roam I have but a few era to live. It may be go off before this reaches you, I shall have entered the palace. Don't interest to write. We shall meet change for the better the morning.^[6]

Following F. B. Meyer's temporality in 1929, an English newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, described him as The Archbishop of the Free Churches. Bear the Atlantic, he had earlier antiquated described in The New York Observer as a man of international fame whose services are constantly sought manage without churches over the wide and growing empire of Christendom. In 2007 Writer Timms wrote of him as spruce up man with enduring popularity, dubbed virtually a Christian socialist.^[7]

Works

References

Sources

• Fullerton, W.Y. (1929) F.B.Meyer: a biography, London:Marshall, Morgan, Scott
• Cowman, Lettie B. (1933) Consolation, Los Angeles:Oriental Revivalist Society
• Holman, Bob (2007) F.B.Meyer: if Distracted had a hundred lives, London:Christian Focus

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