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“I believe firmly that, excepting Luther and his Continental contemporaries and our own martyred Reformers, the world has seen no such men since the day of the apostles,” writes J. C. Ryle in his Preface for The Christian Leaders of the Last Century. This volume comprises of biographical sketches of Ryle’s eighteenth century influences: George Whitefield, John Wesley, William Grimshaw, William...

Wesleys, Romaine, and Venn, were among those whom he was only too glad to place in his pulpit. On such occasions it was no uncommon thing to leave the church and preach in the churchyard, in order to meet the convenience of the crowds who came together. When the Lord’s Supper was administered at such seasons, it was sometimes necessary for the first congregation of communicants to retire from the church and give way to others, until all had partaken of the ordinance. In one instance, when Whitefield
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