The Letter That Changed William Wilberforce
In the autumn of 1785, William Wilberforce sat in a carriage traveling through the French countryside with Isaac Milner, a Cambridge professor and old friend....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on John 1:29-42.
In the autumn of 1785, William Wilberforce sat in a carriage traveling through the French countryside with Isaac Milner, a Cambridge professor and old friend. Milner had invited Wilberforce to read Philip Doddridge's The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul, and somewhere between Nice and Geneva, the young parliamentarian encountered Jesus Christ — not as a cultural fixture of English society, but as the Lamb of God who bears the weight of human sin.…
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