1833 HT: Dan Graves IN HIS FIRST PARISH, Rowland Hill offended some farmers by comparing them to their pigs. Just as their pigs never gave a single look at the oak tree that dropped acorns for them, he said, so they never gave a look to the One who provided their blessings. Plain talk like this earned…
1744 HT: Christianity.com Rowland Hill scandalized his contemporaries. The son of Sir Rowland Hill, a baronet, he was born in Shropshire, England on this day, August 23, 1744. Educated at some of England’s best schools on his way to becoming a minister (Shrewsbury, Eton and St. John’s College, Cambridge), he might have risen to elite positions…