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HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 846 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HALL, See also:CHRISTOPHER See also:NEWMAN (1816—19oz) , See also:English See also:Nonconformist divine, was See also:born at See also:Maidstone on the 22nd of May 1816. His See also:father was See also:John See also:Vine Hall, proprietor and printer of the Maidstone See also:Journal, and the author of a popular evangelical See also:work called The Sinner's Friend. Christopher was educated at University See also:College, See also:London, and took the London B. A. degree. His theological training was gained at Highbury College, whence he was called in 1842 to his first pastorate at the See also:Albion Congregational See also:Church, See also:Hull. During the twelve years of his See also:ministry there the membership was greatly increased, and a See also:branch See also:chapel and school were opened. At Hull Newman Hall first began his active work in See also:temperance reform, and in See also:defence of his position wrote The Scriptural Claims of See also:Teetotalism. In 18J4 he accepted a See also:call to See also:Surrey chapel, London, founded in 1783 by the Rev. See also:Rowland See also:Hill. A considerable sum had been bequeathed by Hill for the perpetuation of his work on the expiration of the See also:lease; but, owing to some legal flaw in the will, the See also:money was not available, and Newman Hall undertook to raise the necessary funds for a new church. By weekly offertories and donations the money for the beautiful See also:building called See also:Christ Church at the junction of the See also:Kennington and See also:Westminster See also:Bridge Roads was collected, and within four years of opening (1876) the See also:total cost (£63,000) was cleared. In 1892 Newman Hall resigned his See also:charge and devoted himself to See also:general evangelical work.

Most of his writings are small booklets or tracts of a distinctly evangelical See also:

character. The best known of these is Come to Jesus, of which over four million copies have been circulated in See also:forty different See also:languages. Newman Hall visited the See also:United States during the See also:Civil See also:War, and did much to promote a friendly understanding between See also:England and See also:America. A Liberal in politics, and a keen admirer of John See also:Bright, few preachers of any See also:denomination have exercised so far-reaching an See also:influence as the " Dissenters' See also:Bishop," as he came to be termed. He died on the 18th of See also:February 1902. See his Autobiography (1898) ; obituary See also:notice in The Congregational See also:Year See also:Book for 1903.

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