Wilberforce and the Long Faithfulness
For twenty years, William Wilberforce watched slave traders grow rich. Ship owners in Liverpool built grand estates. Sugar merchants in Bristol threw lavish parties. Members...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40.
For twenty years, William Wilberforce watched slave traders grow rich. Ship owners in Liverpool built grand estates. Sugar merchants in Bristol threw lavish parties. Members of Parliament pocketed bribes and voted down every abolition bill Wilberforce introduced. Year after year — 1789, 1791, 1792, 1796, 1798, 1799 — defeat after defeat. His friends urged him to quit. His doctor warned his frail body could not sustain the fight.…
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