The Practice of Prayer

Reverend Doctor George Campbell Morgan D.D. (1863-1945) was a British evangelist, preacher, leading Bible scholar, and prolific author, writing about 80 works in his lifetime and a 10-volume set of sermons, ‘The Westminster Pulpit.’ In addition, many of his sermons were published independently as booklets and pamphlets, and work was published posthumously. He wrote extensive commentaries on the entire Bible, and on myriad devotional topics related to the Christian life and ministry. He was born on December 9, 1863 on a farm in Tetbury, England, the son of Welshman George Morgan and Elizabeth Fawn Brittan. When Rev. Dr. Campbell was 10 years old, D. L. Moody came to England for the first time and made such an impression on young Morgan that, at the age of 13, he preached his first sermon. In 1883 Morgan went on to teach in Birmingham, England, and in 1886, at the age of 23, he left the teaching profession to devote himself to preaching and Bible exposition. He was ordained by the Congregationalists in London in 1890. In 1896, D. L. Moody invited him to lecture to the students at the Moody Bible Institute, which became the first of Morgan’s 54 crossings of the Atlantic to preach and teach. After the death of Moody in 1899 Morgan assumed the position of director of the Northfield Bible Conference. He received a Doctor of Divinity degree by the Chicago Theological Seminary in 1902. He returned to England and became pastor of Westminster Chapel in London from 1904-1919. From 1919-1933, he was again in the United States, conducting an itinerant preaching/teaching ministry for 14 years, before returning to Westminster Chapel from 1933-1943, until his retirement. He was instrumental in bringing Martyn Lloyd-Jones to Westminster in 1939 to share the pulpit and become his successor. Morgan died on May 16, 1945, at the age of 81.