William Wilberforce

A Man Who Changed His Times

By John Pollock
Foreword by J. Douglas Holladay
(1996)

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An account of the life and achievement of history’s most influential reformer, William Wilberforce. A man of faith who made a difference, Wilberforce was instrumental in the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. Biographer John Pollock has adapted a lecture given at the British National Gallery for this exclusive Reading, which comes closer than any other to representing the vision and mission of The Trinity Forum today.

“The first years I was in Parliament,” Wilberforce wrote later, “I did nothing—nothing that is to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.” But that changed forever as he came to believe that God was calling him to champion the liberty of the oppressed—as a Parliamentarian. “My walk,” he concluded, “is a public one. My business is in the world; and I must mix in the assemblies of men, or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.” from A Man Who Changed His Times

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