Where Love Shines Read online

  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

  George Washington elected President

  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

  1849

  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.

  ____ .Florence Nightingale. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1951). The definitive biography

  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.

  To read more about all of Donna’s books and see pictures from her garden and research trips go to: www.DonnaFletcherCrow.com

  You can follow her on Facebook at: Donna Fletcher Crow, Novelist of British History

  And subscribe to her newsletter at: http://www.donnafletchercrow.com/subscribe.php