 Author Name: MURRAY IAIN
Title: D Martyn Lloyd Jones - The first forty years
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Banner of Truth Trust 1982
ISBN: 0851513534
ISBN: 9780851513539
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When Martyn Lloyd-Jones, physician, preacher, and Christian leader, died in 1981, after more than 40 years in London, few knew the remarkable story of his formative earlier years which, in this authorized biography, is now told for the first time. From his rural Welsh background to St Bartholomew's Hospital (where at the age of 23 he was Chief Clinical Assistant to Sir Thomas Horder, the King's Physician), then suddenly at 27, to a struggling Calvinistic Methodist Mission Church in Aberavon, South Wales, he appears successively as schoolboy, dairyman's assistant, political enthusiast, debater, doctor, and finally Christian preacher.
Some regarded his change of career as romantic, others as foolish. The one thing of which Dr Lloyd-Jones was sure was that his settlement amid the industrial depression of South Wales was no sacrifice: 'I gave up northing. I received everything. I count it the highest honour God can confer on any man to call him to be a herald of the gospel'.
This volume traces the unforgettable events of his first pastorate, his wide ministry in Wales (where, by 1933, the press reported, 'he draws thousands to hear his message in all parts of the Principality'), his first visits to North America, and finally his settlement at Westminster Chapel, London, on the eve of World War II. While some saw him as 'the modern Moody', and others as 'the last of the Calvinistic preachers', Iain H. Murray's work makes constant use of hitherto unpublished material and is able to present Dr Lloyd-Jones' own view of his life and ministry.
Iain Murray, born in Lancashire, England, in 1931, was educated in the Isle of Man and at the University of Durham. Assisting at St John's Free Church, Oxford, in 1955-56, where the Banner of Truth magazine was launched, he became its first editor. From 1956 he was for three years assistant to Dr Lloyd-Jones at Westminster Chapel and, there, with the late Jack Cullum founded the Banner of Truth Trust in 1957 leaving Westminster in 1961 for a nine-year pastorate at Grove Chapel, Camberwell.
The friendship and association of Dr Lloyd-Jones was to lead to the Trust become the latter's principal publisher after 1970. With the world-wide expansion of the Trust, Iain Murray became engaged full-time in its ministry from 1969 until 1981 when he responded to a call from St Giles Presbyterian Church, Sydney, Australia, where this present volume was completed. Now based again in the Uk he remains active in the work of the second and final volume of Dr Lloyd-Jones' biography, D Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The Fight of Faith, 1939-1981.
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