The Life of the Rev. Rowland Hill A. M. Quotes

“Because I am in earnest, men call me an enthusiast; but I am not; mine are the words of truth and soberness. When I first came into this part of the country, I was walking on yonder hill; I saw a gravel pit fall in, and bury three human beings alive. I lifted up my voice for help, so loud, that I was heard in the town below, at a distance of a mile; help came, and rescued two of the poor sufferers. No one called me an enthusiast then; and when I see eternal destruction ready to fall upon poor sinners, and about to entomb them irrecoverably in an eternal mass of woe, and call aloud on them to escape, shall I be called an enthusiast now! No, sinner, I am not an enthusiast in so doing; I call on thee aloud to fly for refuge, to the hope set before thee in the gospel of Christ Jesus. (Rowland Hill)”
― Edwin Sidney, The Life of the Rev. Rowland Hill, A.M.

“A few years ago, when making a preaching tour in Yorkshire, Mr. Rowland Hill paid a visit to an old friend, who said to him—"Mr. Hill, it is just sixty-five years since I first heard you preach, and I remember your text, and part of your sermon." "'Tis more than I do," was his remark,—"You told us," his friend proceeded, " that some people were very squeamish about the delivery of different ministers, who preached the same gospel. You said, suppose you were attending to hear a will read, where you expected a legacy to be left you, would you employ the time when it was reading, in criticising the manner in which the lawyer read it? No, you would not; you would be giving all ear to hear if any thing was left to you, and how much it was. That is the way I would advise you to hear the gospel.”
― Edwin Sidney, The Life of the Rev. Rowland Hill, A.M.

“No churches are empty, where the doctrines of the reformation are duly urged, with purity and energy, upon the people's minds.(Rowland Hill)”
― Edwin Sidney, The Life of the Rev. Rowland Hill, A.M.