James Sherman Rowland Hill

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# Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars Road Standing before the Surrey Chapel on Blackfriars Road, you're looking at the pulpit where Rowland Hill delivered his first sermon on June 8, 1783, launching what would become a fifty-year ministry that defined evangelical preaching in London—a tenure so significant...

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Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars Road, Southwark

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In this pulpit Rowland Hill preached the first sermon in Surrey Chapel, June 8, 1783 "We preach Christ crucified" & continued to preach in it until April 2, 1833 nine days before his decease. His successor James Sherman preached in it till 1854 after which Newman Hall occupied it till June 25, 1876 when the congregation & institutions removed to Christ Church. This pulpit was open to faithful preachers of all churches & amongst others was occupied by Venn, Scott & Berridge, amongst Episcopalians & by Chalmers, Robert Hall, Jay, James, Parsons of other churches.