Frederick Brotherton Meyer
1847 - 1929

      Meyer was a Baptist pastor and evangelist in England, born in London. He attended Brighton College and graduated from London University in 1869. He studied theology at Regents Park Baptist College.

      Meyer began pastoring churches in 1870. His first pastorate was at Pembroke Baptist Chapel in Liverpool. In 1872 he pastored Priory Street Baptist Church in York. While he was there he met the American evangelist Dwight L. Moody, whom he introduced to other churches in England. The two preachers became lifelong friends.

      In 1895 Meyer went to Christ Church in Lambeth. At the time only 100 people attended the church, but within two years over 2,000 were regularly attending. He stayed there for fifteen years, and then began a traveling to preach at conferences and evangelistic services.

      His evangelistic tours included South Africa and Asia. He also visited the United States and Canada several times.

      He spent the last few years of his life working as a pastor in England's churches, but still made trips to North America, including one he made at age 80.

      Meyer was part of the Higher Life movement and preached often at the Keswick Convention. He was known as a crusader against immorality. He preached against drunkenness and prostitution. He is said to have brought about the closing of hundreds of saloons and brothels.

      Meyer wrote over 40 books, including Christian biographies and devotional commentaries on the Bible.

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1.) A Good Start - Preface
      THE chapters in this little book might be called "Work-a-day Sermons." They are intended to bring the highest principles of our holy religion to bear on the practical business of every-day life. Probably all our sermons should have more of this element in them. The Epistles of the New Testament are admirable specimens of the blending of the doct ...read more

2.) A Good Start 1 - Tempers, and What to do With Them
      WHAT a shadow is cast over lives and homes by bad tempers! It is Sunday morning, God's day of rest and peace, when the worry and rush of the world should be quiet, and the voices of newspaper boys and hawkers of small wares should be still. A family of little children is waiting to be sweetened and blessed by God, mother, and father. But the mother ...read more

3.) A Good Start 2 - Exaggeration
      BENEATH all exaggeration there is a basis of truth. When an American said that the whey which flowed from the making of a large cheese in his country was sufficient to run three sawmills; and when another affirmed that the soil of his farm was so prolific that the tendrils of the vine which he had just sown caught him up and entwined around his leg ...read more

4.) A Good Start 3 - On Falling in Love
      No flirting, young people, please! You cannot flit around the flame without the risk of burning your wings; and remember, if these are lost, you cannot get another pair; you may be able to crawl or limp, but you will never again bask in the sunbeams or dance with merry-hearted glee in the shadows. In other words, you may play at love-making till yo ...read more

5.) A Good Start 4 - On Being Straight
      To be straight is to be true. There is no more important exhortation on the page of Scripture, than where the Apostle says, "Whatsoever things are true . . . think on these things." A friend of mine, educated in one of our great English schools, says that the most formative words of his life were addressed to him by his head master, as he said good ...read more

6.) A Good Start 5 - On Doing a Good Day's Work
      LONGFELLOW'S village blacksmith felt that "something accomplished, something done," had earned a night's repose; and f suppose that he did little else than shoe the farmers' horses, or put new shares to their ploughs; yet he had the perpetual consciousness that he was doing something in the world, contributing to its well-being, performing a necess ...read more

7.) A Good Start 6 - Savorless Salt
      No wonder that the common people hung on Christ's words. He was a Master of the Art of Illustration, because he sought his emblems, not from remote corners of creation, or its recondite processes, but from the common incidents of ordinary human experience. Salt and light, birds and lilies, gates and roads, trees and their fruit, houses and their fo ...read more

8.) A Good Start 7 - Our Holidays
      WE need to have a pause in the rush of our life, whether by the seaside, on the moor, or in the green nook of the country. As nature needs the repose of winter after the exhaustion of her autumn produce to recuperate herself for the coming spring, so do we need seasons in which our intellectual and physical vigor, to say nothing of the spiritual, m ...read more

9.) A Good Start 8 - How to Spend Sunday
      "A Sabbath well spent brings a week of content." So the old couplet runs, but the difficulty lies in how to spend Sunday well. Too many seem only proficient in the art of how not to do it. Now I feel able to give some advice on this matter, as the Sundays of my early life were the red-letter days of the whole week; and as I look back on them, th ...read more

10.) A Good Start 9 - Amusements
      THIS difficulty about amusements, where to go and where not to go, is not a new one. It agitated the Christians at Corinth centuries ago as it agitates us; and led up to one of those questions which the Apostle answered in his first epistle. Dean Farrar, in his graphic style, explains the difficulty and perplexity of their position. They were da ...read more

11.) A Good Start 10 - Use of the Senses
      Our senses give warning signals when danger is near. This is perhaps their secondary use, but it is the most vital. The eye, ear, nose, the senses of taste and touch, are the channels through which the most exquisite pleasures are wafted to us--rapturous glimpses of natural beauty, sweet sounds, fragrant scents, delicious viands, and soft contacts; ...read more

12.) A Good Start 11 - Christmas
      HERE again I Welcome, thrice welcome! The darkest, shortest days of the year are an appropriate season to select for the Yule-log, the good cheer, the home-gatherings, the presents and gifts of young and old, which Christmas brings! The Yule-log! How we love it! For ordinary days the coal-fire is good enough; but, oh, the spluttering, the crackl ...read more

13.) Abraham 1 - THE HOLE OF THE PIT
      "The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran; and said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee." -- Acts 7:2-3. "Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. Look unto Abraha ...read more

14.) Abraham 2 - THE DIVINE SUMMONS
      "Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee: and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing." Genesis 12:1-2. Whilst Abraham was living quietly in Ur, protesting against the idolatry of his times, with al ...read more

15.) Abraham 3 - "HE OBEYED"
      "By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed." -- Hebrews 11:8. Ah, how much there is in those two words! Blessedness in heart, and home, and life; fulfilled promises; mighty opportunities of good -- lie along the narrow, thorn-set path of obedience to the word and will of ...read more

16.) Abraham 4 - THE FIRST OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS
      Genesis 12:4-9 "Abram departed" (Verse 4). "Abram passed through" (Verse 6). "Abram went forth" (Verse 5). "Abram removed" (Verse 8). "Abram journeyed" (Verse 9). "He went out, not knowing whither he went." -- Hebrews 11:8. All through the history of mankind there has been a little band of men, in a sacred and unbroken succession, ...read more

17.) Abraham 5 - GONE DOWN INTO EGYPT
      "Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land [of Canaan]." -- Genesis 12:10. The path of the separated man can never be an easy one. He must be willing to stand alone; to go outside the camp; and to forego the aid of many of those supplies on which other men freely draw. It is a life, therefore, which is ...read more

18.) Abraham 6 - SEPARATED FROM LOT
      "Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. If thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or, if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left." --Genesis 13:9. In our last, we saw something of the original stuff of which God makes His saints. By nature Abraham was not superior to the g ...read more

19.) Abraham 7 - THE TWO PATHS
      "Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me." -- Genesis 13:9. Abraham and Lot stood together on the heights of Bethel. The Land of Promise spread out before them as a map. On three sides at least there was not much to attract a shepherd's gaze. The eye wandered over the outlines of the hills which hid from view th ...read more