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William Wilberforce led the twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave trade. He championed medical aid for the poor, prison rehabilitation, education for the deaf, and restrictions on child labor. Wilberforce found “nothing more effectual than private prayer, and the serious perusal of the New Testament.” He maintained that “all may be done through prayer, almighty prayer.” He insisted that...

‘Fill me with all the fulness of God’ ‘My soul waiteth for the LORD more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.’ Psalm 130:6 SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Proverbs 22:1–5 Wilberforce’s sons wrote of their father as he was late in 1812: ‘His secret entries testify that habitual peace, combined with the deepest humility, were in him the blessed fruit of keeping God’s watch carefully. They are well expressed in an entry at this time. “I am just
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