Charlesworth, V.J. - Rowland Hill; His Life Andecdotes and Pulpit Sayings (1879)

with an Introduction by Rev. C.H. Spurgeon

Rowland Hill was a popular English preacher at the independent old Surrey Chapel, author of Village Dialogues, a chairman of the Religious Tract Society, a trustee and stated contributor to The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, and a favorite of Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

The author and compiler of this printing, Vernon J. Charlesworth, was later co-pastor at the old Surrey Chapel decades after Hill, along with being a hymnist as well as headmaster of Spurgeon’s Stockwell Orphanage.

This volume is a great collection of biographical information and content on Rowland Hill, containing (among other things) many of the anecdotes, pulpit sayings and illustrations, and various sermons of his that display the fruit of his life labors.

“Several writers have commemorated Rowland Hill, but their works are not now in print, and hence the vacuum which the present volume will fill up. We see no reason why Rowland Hill and Surrey Chapel should ever be forgotten. Here is another stone for the cairn which keeps his resting-place conspicuous. The reader will be the best judge of the value of this memorial, but we feel no hesitation in introducing it to him as worthy of his attention, and no fear that he will fall asleep while reading it.” - excerpt from the Introduction by Rev. C.H. Spurgeon.