'A vivid picture: preacher and evangelist, happier with the poor than the rich remarkable social entrepreneur and political progressive.Meyer has a lot to teach our churches today. He has written academic books and a biography of George Lansbury, Christian socialist leader of the Labour party. He lived and worked in two deprived areas for 26 years.

In his last years, he declared, 'If I had a hundred lives, they should be at Christ's disposal.' At times, it seemed as though he was living a hundred lives!īob Holman (1936-2016) was Professor of Social Policy at Bath University. Yet he drew crowds by the thousands, wrote books, which sold by the millions, and attracted working class people.The range of Meyer's activities is astonishing: preacher, pastor, writer, social activist, free church leader, Baptist president, advocate for missionary work and more.

Meyer was the minister of one of Britain's first 'mega-churches'. Meyer's death in 1929, obituaries in the secular press were clear that he was a key player on the world scene yet this is the first chronological account of his life. His slight figure and retiring manner meant that he did not stand out in a crowd. Bob Holman 4.36 Rating details 11 ratings 4 reviews On F.B. He was not a distinguished scholar or dramatic orator. He came from a conventional, middle class Victorian background and experienced no dramatic conversion. Moody and ministered on both sides of the Atlantic, mirroring in America what D. Meyer was the minister one of Britain's first 'megachurches'. The New York Observer noted that 'He has an international fame and his services are constantly sought by churches over the wide and increasing empire of Christendom.' To the secular press of his time he was a key player on the world scene - yet this is the first chronological account of Meyer's life. Meyer's death in 1929 The Daily Telegraph called him 'The Archbishop of the Free Churches'.

F.B. Meyer by Bob Holman