Light From Old Times Geoffrey B. Wilson believers are urged to profit

believers are urged to profit each day

This volume contains much source material now in print for the first time and will be a primary text on evangelicalism in the twentieth century

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The biography closes with a moving account of his last days during the early months of 1974

Light From Old Times Geoffrey B. Wilson believers are urged to profitThe nineteenth century was an age that witnessed great progress in many areas of exploration and learning. However, according to J. C. Ryle, it was an age of great ignorance too. With all the stir made about education, he wryly observed, the ignorance of our own countrys history is something lamentable and appalling and depressing. What particularly distressed Ryle was the scant knowledge of the English Reformation evident amongst his contemporaries.