MEYER, FREDERICK BROTHERTON:
English Baptist; b. at London Apr. 8, 1847. He was
educated at Brighton College and Regent's Park
Baptist College (B.A., London University, 1869),
and held
successive pastorates at Pembroke Baptist
Chapel, Liverpool, in 1870-72, York, in 1872-1874, Victoria Road Church, Leicester, in 1874-78,
Melbourne Hall, Leicester, in 1878,88, Regent's
Park Chapel, London, in 1888-92, and Christ Church,
Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth, in 1892-95.
He was president of the National Federation of Free
Churches 1904-05. Since that time, as general
evangelist of the Federation of Free Churches, he
has conducted missions in South Africa and the far
East, returning to England in the spring of 1909.
In theology he is a liberal Evangelical. Among his
numerous works, special mention may be made of
his
Elijah and the Secret of his Power
(London, 1887);
Israel a Prime with God
(1887);
Abraham; or, the
Obedience of
Faith
(1888);
Christian Living
(1888);
Present Tenses of the Blessed Life
(1888);
Shepherd
Psalm
(1889);
Joseph, Beloved, Hated, Exalted
(1890);
Tried by Fire
(1890);
Life and Light of
Men
(1891);
Moses, the Servant of God
(1892);
Joshua and the Land of Promise
(1893);
Way into
the Holiest
(1893);
Jeremiah, Priest and Prophet
(1894);
Prayers for Heart and Home
(1894);
Christ
in Isaiah
(1895);
David, Shepherd, Psalmist, King
(1895);
Reveries and Realities
(1896);
Through Fire
and Flood
(1896);
Paul, a Servant of
Jesus Christ
(1897);
Saved and Kept
(1897);
Statutes and Songs
(1897);
Work-arday Sermons
(1897);
Blessed are
Ye
(1898);
Our Daily Homily
(5 vols., 1898-99);
Love to the Uttermost
(1898);
Love, Courtship, Mar
riage
(1899);
John the Baptist
(1900);
The Prophet
of Hope
(1900);
The Soul's Ascent
(1901);
Art of
Life
(1903);
Jottings and Hints for Lay Preachers
(1903);
Religion in Homespun
(1903);
Some Deeper
Things
(1903);
Directory of
a Devout Life
(1904);
In the Beginning God!
(1904);
Epistle to the Philip
pians
(1905);
The Soul's Wrestle with Doubt
(1905);
In Defence of the Faith
(1907);
The Soul's Pure
Intention
(1907); and A
Winter in South Africa
(1908).
