G. Campbell Morgan

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Rev G. Campbell Morgan in 1907
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Morgan in later years

Reverend Doctor George Campbell Morgan D.D. (9 December 1863 – 16 May 1945) was a British evangelist, preacher and a leading Bible scholar. A contemporary of Rodney "Gipsy" Smith, Morgan was the pastor of Westminster Chapel in London from 1904 to 1919, and from 1933 to 1943.

Biography

Morgan was born on a farm in Tetbury, England, the son of Welshman George Morgan, a strict Plymouth Brethren who resigned and became a Baptist minister, and Elizabeth Fawn Brittan. He was very sickly as a child, could not attend school, and so was tutored.[1] When Campbell was 10 years old, D. L. Moody came to England for the first time, and the effect of his ministry, combined with the dedication of his parents, made such an impression on young Morgan that at the age of 13 he preached his first sermon. Two years later he was preaching regularly in country chapels during his Sundays and holidays.

In 1883 he was teaching in Birmingham, but in 1886, at the age of 23, he left the teaching profession and devoted himself to preaching and Bible exposition. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1890. He had no formal training for the ministry, but his devotion to studying of the Bible made him one of the leading Bible teachers in his day. His reputation as preacher and Bible expositor grew throughout Britain and spread to the United States.

In 1896 D. L. Moody invited him to lecture to the students at the Moody Bible Institute. This was the first of his 54 crossings of the Atlantic to preach and teach. After the death of Moody in 1899 Morgan assumed the position of director of the Northfield Bible Conference. He was ordained by the Congregationalists in London, and given a Doctor of Divinity degree by the Chicago Theological Seminary in 1902.[1] After five successful years in this capacity, he returned to England in 1904 and became pastor of Westminster Chapel in London. During two years of this ministry he was President of Cheshunt College in Cambridge.[2] His preaching and weekly Friday night Bible classes were attended by thousands. In 1910 Morgan contributed an essay entitled The Purposes of the Incarnation to the first volume of The Fundamentals, 90 essays which are widely considered to be the foundation of the modern Fundamentalist movement. Leaving Westminster Chapel in 1919, he once again returned to the United States, where he conducted an itinerant preaching/teaching ministry for 14 years. Finally, in 1933, he returned to England, where he again became pastor of Westminster Chapel and remained there until his retirement in 1943. He was instrumental in bringing Martyn Lloyd-Jones to Westminster in 1939 to share the pulpit and become his successor. Morgan was a friend of F. B. Meyer, Charles Spurgeon, and many other great preachers of his day.[1]

Morgan died on 16 May 1945, at the age of 81.

Publications

  • The Teaching of Christ. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2004. ISBN 1-59244-803-8
  • God's Last Word to Man. Emerald House Group, 1997. ISBN 1-898787-90-5
  • The Westminster Pulpit: the Preaching of G. Campbell Morgan. Baker Book House. ISBN 0-8010-6155-5
  • The Practice of Prayer. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2004. ISBN 1-59244-804-6
  • God's Perfect Will. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2004. ISBN 1-59244-801-1
  • An Exposition of the Whole Bible. HarperCollins Publishers, 1992. ISBN 0-551-02413-5
  • "The Crises of the Christ ". Originally Published : New York : F.H. Revell. 1903 -ISBN 0-8007-5307-0
  • "The Ten Commandments". Published 1901 by the Bible Institute Colportage Association of Chicago
  • The Minor Prophets: The Men and Their Message. Fleming H. Revel Company, 1960. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 60-5500

References

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Resources

  • Murray, Harold. G. Campbell Morgan: Bible Teacher. Ambassador-Emerald International, 1999. ISBN 1-84030-046-9

External links

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