Dr. Pannier’s crimes are modeled on the celebrated case of Dr. William Palmer (who did not serve in the Crimea as far as I know). The Palmer trial was the first in history to be granted a change of venue. Palmer was hung at Stafford on June 14, 1856. At the sale of his stable one of his horses was purchased by Prince Albert.
Spurgeon’s sermon at the Crystal Palace was actually delivered on October 7, 1857 (about a year and a half later than I have portrayed it). Not all the words I gave Spurgeon here are taken from that sermon but are much in the spirit of his preaching.
New Park Street Chapel was empty when Charles Spurgeon began preaching there. Within a few months such crowds gathered to hear the twenty-year-old country lad preach that the chapel was enlarged. The remodeled chapel instantly proved too small. While his great tabernacle was being built, Spurgeon preached regularly to a congregation of 10,000 meeting in a music hall. In 1861 the Metropolitan Tabernacle was opened. Spurgeon preached there until his death, filling its 6,000 seats several times a week. The church also sponsored a pastors’ college, an orphanage, and other charities, some of which continue to this day. More than 2,500 of Spurgeon’s sermons were published, and many are considered classics of the faith. He and Susannah had twin sons, Charles and Thomas.
While the sweeping revival Jennifer envisioned had to wait another generation, the ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon is often cited as part of the groundwork for the great reawakening that swept England and America in the late nineteenth century.
I have been a friend of All Souls for many years. Their vibrant work continues today in the heart of London and around the world.
—DFC
Time Line
Where There Is Love
UNITED STATES
ENGLAND
George Whitefield begins preaching
1738
John Wesley’s Aldergate experience
French and Indian War
1756
1760
George III crowned
1760
Lady Huntingdon opens chapel in Bath
1766
Stamp Act passed
Boston Tea Party
1773
Rowland Hill ordained
The Revolutionary War
1776
The American War
1787
Wilberforce begins antislavery campaign
Constitution ratified
1788
1789
1799
Church Missionary Society founded
1805
Lord Nelson wins Battle of Trafalgar
1807
Parliament bans slave trade
War of 1812
1812
Charles Simeon begins Conversation Parties
1815
Waterloo
Missouri Compromise
1820
George IV crowned
John Quincy Adams elected President
1825
1830
William IV crowned
Temperance Union founded
1835
William Wilberforce dies
Texas Independence
1836
Charles Simeon dies
1837
Queen Victoria crowned
Susan B. Anthony Campaigns
1848
California Gold Rush
1851
Crystal Palace opens
Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
1852
1854
Florence Nightingale goes to Crimean War
Abraham Lincoln elected President
1860
Emancipation Proclamation
1863
1865
Hudson Taylor founds China Inland Mission
Transcontinental Railroad completed
1869
1877
D.L. Moody and Ira Sankey London revivals
Thomas Edison invents light bulb
1879
1885
Cambridge Seven join China Inland Mission
REFERENCES
Altick, Richard D. Victorian Studies in Scarlet. (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1970).
Beeton, Isabella. Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management. (1861.) First edition facsimile (New York: Exeter Books, 1986). A treasury of remedies and recipes. Almost all medicines referred to in this book are based on Mrs. Beeton’s suggestions.
Cook, Sir Edward. The Life of Florence Nightingale. 2 vol. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1914). Copious direct quotations from newspapers and letters.
Cook, Richard Briscoe. The Wit and Wisdom of Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon. (Baltimore: R. H. Woodward & Co., 1891).
Hodder, Edwin. The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G. 3 vols. (London: Cassell & Co., 1886). The authorized biography. Very complete.
Pollock, John. Shaftesbury, The Poor Man’s Earl. (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985). Excellent. Most of my quotations of the earl’s own words, especially in chapters 7 and 10, are taken from this source.
Selby, John. Balaclava: Gentlemen’s Battle. (New York: Atheneum, 1970). Particularly helpful maps and pictures.
Spurgeon, Charles H. All of Grace. (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1976). A collection of his sermons.
Woodham-Smith, Cecil. The Reason Why. (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1960). Gripping account of the charge of the Light Brigade.
Read the complete Where There is Love Series:
Where Love Begins
Catherine Perronet’s world is shaken when she learns Charles Wesley is engaged to marry another. After all, Catherine’s initials were on the list John Wesley gave to his brother listing acceptable matrimonial candidates.
And that’s not all that’s wrong in Catherine’s world. As teacher at a Methodist Society school in London, she sees her brother beaten while preaching in the open air, her favorite pupil forced to leave school because of his family’s poverty, and a prisoner receive his death sentence in Newgate Prison. Catherine undertakes the joys and hardships of a circuit-ride preaching tour to Canterbury where a French invasion threatens then must face the terrors of the Great London Earthquake before coming to an understanding of the gentle calling God has for her.
Where Love Illumines
Mary Tudway is forced to choose between two worlds: the pleasurable life of her high society friends Sarah Child, heiress of Osterley Park, and the Bishop of Raphoe and his dashing Nephew, Roger; or the life of faith and service represented by the Countess of Huntingdon, her lovely daughter Selina and the witty but devout Rowland Hill.
The story moves through the fashionable worlds of London and Bath as the death of one friend, the elopement of another and the startling unveiling of the Highwayman of Hampstead Heath play their parts in Mary’s finally making a choice of lasting value.
Where Love Triumphs
Brandley Hilliard, baronet’s son, brilliant classical scholar and cripple finds his carefully ordered world turned upside down by the delightful Elinor Silbert, daughter of the Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge. And his conflicts increase when Elinor’s head is turned by the debonair Marquess of Widkham.
Brandley’s search takes a destructive turn until Charles Simeon, Fellow of King’s College, takes the young gownsman under his wing and shows him a life beyond any his academic pursuits had taught him.
Where Love Restores
The disapproval of Granville Ryder’s father the Earl of Harrowby leaves Granville believing he cannot be accepted by his heavenly Father or accomplish anything of worth. Even his special friendship with Georgiana, daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, is almost destroyed by Granville’s conflicts.
In a story that moves from Cambridge to the Midlands, to London to Wales, the counsel of Charles Simeon, the example of William Wilberforce and the terrors of the Cato Street Re
bellion (more dangerous than the notorious Guy Fawkes Plot) lead Granville to reconciliation and love. This is the most entirely historical of the series. Even the animals are a matter of record.
Where Love Shines
“Half a league, half a league/ Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death/ Rode the six hundred.” Lieutenant Richard Greyston seeks heroic glory in the Charge of the Light Brigade. Jennifer Neville goes to Scutari as one of Florence Nightingale’s nurses dreaming of wiping the brows of the wounded. Richard winds up blinded and Jennifer spends her days carrying slops as mice fall from the walls of the hospital.
Back in London Jennifer throws herself into charity work under the leadership of the Earl of Shaftesbury. She is delighted to reconnect with the convalescing Richard until she learns that his family’s wealth is built on the potteries where children are subjected to unimaginable brutality. Richard eventually joins Shaftesbury’s fight for social justice but must find a way out of the darkness to deal with his feelings for Jennifer.
Where Love Calls
Hilda Beauchamp believes that God guides the life of every believer—and that it is her job to guide God. Hilda’s plans meet many complications, but at least one of her prayers gets answered when the winds of spiritual revival sweep England, stirred by the great evangelistic campaigns of D. L. Moody and Ira Sankey. Word of Hudson Taylor’s mission to China fires imaginations and missionary fervor within the Cambridge community.
But Hilda and the charming Kynaston Studd—whom Hilda has slated to marry her sister—find their plans sidelined. Kynaston was the leader, the first within his circle to catch the vision of going to China. But God seems to be calling his friends there instead of him and Hilda is horrified to find herself falling in love with the man she had intended for her sister.
About The Author
Donna Fletcher Crow brings a lifetime love of English literature and history as well as intensive research to the Where There is Love series—her historical series on the work of the Evangelical Anglicans. She is the author of 45 books, mostly novels of British history. The award-winning Glastonbury, The Novel of Christian England, an Arthurian epic covering 15 centuries of English history, is her best-known work. She also authors The Lord Danvers Mysteries. A Tincture of Murder is her latest in these Victorian true-crime novels. The Elizabeth and Richard Mysteries are her literary suspense series of which A Jane Austen Encounter is the latest. An All-Consuming Fire is the fifth of Felicity and Antony’s adventures in the Monastery Murders. Donna and her husband of 50 years live in Boise, Idaho. They have 4 adult children and 14 grandchildren. She is an enthusiastic gardener.
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