The Great Change of William Wilberforce
In the autumn of 1785, William Wilberforce was a twenty-five-year-old member of Parliament — wealthy, witty, and restless. He had everything London's high society could...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Romans 8:6-11.
In the autumn of 1785, William Wilberforce was a twenty-five-year-old member of Parliament — wealthy, witty, and restless. He had everything London's high society could offer: dinner parties, gambling tables, political influence. Yet something gnawed at him. During a journey across the French countryside with his former schoolmaster Isaac Milner, Wilberforce began reading Philip Doddridge's The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul.…
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