J.C. Ryle: Prepared to Stand Alone

J. C. Ryle's life has only to be heard about once to be remembered. His 84 years (1816-1900) included remarkable contrasts - the promise of a fortune, then the poverty of a bankrupt; a Suffolk country pastor, then bishop of the leading seaport of the British Empire. But there was a still greater change - from the successful youth at Eton and Oxford, who did not pray or read his Bible till he was 21, to the Christian 'bold as a lion for the truth of God's Word and his Gospel'. A much-loved e...