Griffin, John. A Sermon occasioned by the Death of The Rev. Rowland Hill, A.M., of St. John's College, Cambridge. London: Hamilton, Adams and Co. and Westley and Davis; and S. Griffin, Portsea, 1833. [11650]
Removed, no wrapper, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; vi, 51, [1] clean pp. Good. Pamphlet.
The text is John 5:35, "He was a burning and a shining light."
Rowland Hill (1744-1833), English Independent, an evangelical preacher, for fifty years the minister of Surrey Chapel, London. He was one of the founders of the London Missionary Society, and a member of the first committee of the Religious Tract Society. As an advocate for inoculation for the Small Pox at a time of public opposition to the new practice, he wrote a tract in favor of the cure, and personally inoculated thousands of persons. He was the author of several valuable books, including “Village Dialogues,” and compiled some popular hymnals.
Rev. John Griffin (1769-1834). b. Woburn, England. An Independent minister, Griffin was the pastor of a congregation in Portsea, England. He was minister to and author of the Life of Captain James Wilson, who commanded the ship Duff to convey a team of missionaries to Tahiti, Tonga, and the Marquesas islands.
