it was Pitt who urged Wilberforce to resist the call to the contemplative life or to the life of a clergyman and to use his sacred call for to "bring heaven to earth" in ways that were structural
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It's fascinating to think of Anne reading this work while her husband was a slave owner and her son was arguing against Wilberforce as a MP
Shortly after the issuance of the present work
1888 C. H. SPURGEON. Letter to His Dying Friend, Joseph Tritton, Partner in Down-Grace Controversy &c. Puritan it was Pitt who urgedAn exceptionally personal letter written by C. H. Spurgeon, apparently to his dear friend, Joseph Tritton, who would pass away only a few weeks later, and be memorialized by Spurgeon in the August, 1888 issue of the Sword and Trowel [HERE]. A deeply personal letter, articulating Spurgeon's honest view of death as "the greatest danger," his deep care for his friend, and reflecting, in his own Spurgeonic way, on his own perishing body. Complete text as