1797 WILLIAM WILBERFORCE. Inscribed First Edition of One of the Most Important Books in Christian History. Miracles and in 1890

and in 1890

He was born November 25

being sung at the occasion of public baptisms at the Metropolitan Tabernacle

who ran to us with his back terribly scarred

1797 WILLIAM WILBERFORCE. Inscribed First Edition of One of the Most Important Books in Christian History. Miracles and in 1890What a wonderful item. By now, for those acquainted with Church history anyway, the story is something of a commonplace. The power of books is displayed in the history of Wilberforce's classic text. Traveling all the way back in time to the puritan era, a young Richard Baxter picked up Richards Sibbes' 1630 classic The Bruised Reed. There he found Christ and became a Christian. In time, Baxter himself penned his Call to the Unconverted to Turn and