Category: Biographies

The Great Acceptance: The Life Story of F. N. Charrington

"Two millions of people, or thereabouts, live in the East End of London. That seems a good-sized population for an utterly unknown town. They have no institutions of their own to speak of, no public buildings of any importance, no municipality, no gentry, no carriages, no sold...

Chapters

11. CHAPTER IX

Mr. Charrington's name is, of course, indissolubly linked with the Temperance cause. His work for Temperance has been the most strenuous of all his efforts. His hatred of strong...

10. CHAPTER VIII

All the work of years, all the successes, the fact that Frederick Charrington had become an acknowledged leader--perhaps I should say "_the_" acknowledged leader of the armies o...

5. CHAPTER III

As I know him now, a marked characteristic of Charrington is his extreme love of the open air. He has built the largest mission hall in the world. I should be afraid to say how...

3. CHAPTER I

"Two millions of people, or thereabouts, live in the East End of London. That seems a good-sized population for an utterly unknown town. They have no institutions of their own t...

7. CHAPTER V

The reason for this was not because the public had suddenly awakened to the fact that among them was a man who had given up all that makes life dear to ordinary people, who live...

6. CHAPTER IV

But there has been one friendship in his life which deserves to rank with the great friendships of the world, so uninterrupted, so firm and beautiful, was it. No life of the gre...

8. CHAPTER VI

The personal campaign against Lusby's Music Hall, the astounding details of which are found in the preceding chapter to this, was complemented by Mr. Charrington's work upon the...

4. CHAPTER II

Translated, it runs as follows: "I am impatient to tell again that unparalleled epic, to depict those roads stretching infinitely from Asia to Europe, along which they sowed the...

9. CHAPTER VII

In 1885, the late Mr. Stead, whose death this year in the "Titanic" suddenly closed so brilliant a career, startled the whole of England by the publication of his "Maiden Tribut...

2. CHAPTER X

1. CHAPTER VII