F. B. Meyer: If I Had A Hundred Lives. . .

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On F.B. Meyer?'s death in 1929, obituaries in the secular press were clear that he was a key player on the world scene yet this is the first chronological account of his life. F.B. Meyer was the minister of one of Britain?'s first mega-churches . Coming from a conventional, middle class Victorian background he experienced no dramatic conversion. He was not a distinguished scholar and not a dramatic orator. His slight figure and retiring manner meant that he did not stand out in a crowd. Yet he drew crowds by the thousands, wrote books which sold by the millions, and attracted working class people.The range of Meyer?'s activities are astonishing: preacher, pastor, writer, social activist, Baptist president, advocate for missionary work and more. In his last years, he declared, If I had a hundred lives, they should be at Christ?'s disposal. At times, it seemed as though he was living a hundred lives

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