Rowland Hill and Lady Erskine
Well, Happy New Year folks. It feels like it's been a strange start to 2015 to me. Does anyone else think the same or is it just me? Came across this very challenging article and think it's definitely worth sharing. ROWLAND HILL AND LADY ERSKINE C. H. Spurgeon Once when Rowland Hill was preaching, Lady Ann Erskine happened to be driving by: she was in the outer ring of the circle, and she asked the coach-man what all the people were there for. He replied 'They are going to hear Rowland Hill.' Well, she had heard a great deal about this strange man, accounted to be the very wildest of preachers and so she drew near. No sooner did Rowland Hill see her, than he said 'Come, I am going to have an auction, I am going to sell Lady Ann Erskine.' She of course stopped, and she wondered how she was going to be disposed of. 'Who will buy her?' Up comes the world. 'What will you give for her?' 'I will give her all the pomps and vanities of th...