Robert Robinson was born in Saffham, Norfolk, in 1735. (He died in 1790). His widowed mother sent him at age 14 to London to learn the trade of barber and hair dresser. However, his master found he enjoyed reading more than work. Converted to Christ at age 17, Robinson became a Methodist minister. He later became a Baptist and pastored in Cambridge, England. He wrote a number of hymns, as well as on the subject of theology. His later life was evidently not an easy one, judging from an unsubstantiated but well known story about his hymn “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing.” One day, he encountered a woman who was studying a hymnal and she asked how he liked the hymn she was humming. In tears, he replied, “Madam, I am the poor unhappy man who wrote that hymn many years ago, and I would give a thousand worlds, if I had them, to enjoy the feelings I had then.”
Lord's Day November 17 2024 Waterford House, Strood
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Last Lord's Day I was preaching in Waterford House Evangelical Church,
Strood, Kent, for their anniversary. It was avery good day. I preached from
the fi...
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