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Twenty-five Sunday Evenings with Samuel Chadwick

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It was Samuel Chadwick's custom on a Monday morning to write out one of his Sunday Sermons. This was used for leaflet distribution by his workers at the Leeds Wesleyan Mission. On the outer cover of each leaflet was a picture of the famous Oxford Place Chapel. These sermons have never been published and now, out of three hundred, here are a small selection in the hope that a generation too young to know 'Chadwick of Leeds' may yet benefit by his challenging ministry.

These are not 'sermonettes', on the other hand, they do not represent his preaching in all its fullness. They do, however, gather up the essential keynotes of his message. The limitation of space only adds to the intensity of style. In sharp sentences he ministers the truth. Something of the pungency and the power of his evangelical ministry can be felt as one reads. More than 50 years later these messages have not been robbed of their aptness or their effectiveness.

About the Author
Samuel Chadwick was born in the industrialized north of England in 1840 into a devout Methodist family. His father worked in a cotton mill and at the age of 8, Samuel joined him, working 12-hour shifts. At the age of 21, he became a lay pastor at Stacksteads in Lancashire.

After a major awakening and deepening of his faith in his late twenties via a personal epiphany in which he burned all his early sermons, he moved on to larger congregations and greater popularity, ending his career as Principal of Cliff College, a Methodist lay training center.

Chadwick began lecturing weekly at Cliff College in 1904, commuting from Leeds. In 1907, he was appointed to a faculty position as a biblical and theological tutor. Although he was doing mission work in the South Yorkshire coal fields when the principal of Cliff died in 1912, he immediately returned to the school and was formally appointed principal in 1913. While at Cliff, Chadwick wrote The Way to Pentecost, which went to print as he was dying in 1932.