F.B. Meyer

Frederick Brotherton Meyer was born on April 8, 1847 in London. He graduated from the University of London in 1869 and studies theology at Regent’s Park College, Oxford.

In 1870, he began his first pastorate at Pembroke Baptist Chapel in Liverpool. In 1872, he pastored Priory Street Baptist Church in York. It was there that D.L. Moody arrived in England, without any friends or help. Pastor Meyer worked with him, and eventually they were able to get meetings going, and raise funds so D.L. Moody could get back to the United States.

In 1874, he began pastoring the Victoria Road Church of Leicester. In 1878, he pastored Melbourne Hall in Leicester. In 1888 he pastored at Regent’s Park Chapel in London. In 1895 he was at Christ Church in Lambeth. When he arrived 100 people were in attendance, but in two years there were 2,000 attending regularly. He remained there 15 years, and then began travelling to hold evangelistic meetings and conferences. These trips included one to the United States when he was 80 years old.

Meyer tirelessly crusaded and fought immorality and drunkenness, and was blamed for closing hundreds of saloons and brothels. Pastor Meyer was not just a talker, he was a doer. Among his social and political endeavors, he worked with a temperance society to seek the removal of alcohol from England; with another society that closed brothels and counseled prostitutes; and with a homeless children’s aid and adoption society. In spite of his heavy preaching schedule, he wrote over 70 books.

He pastored at the same time period and in the same town, as did two other great preachers: Charles Spurgeon and G. Campbell Morgan.