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- BIO:Frederick Brotherton Meyer 1847-1929 English Baptist clergyman.
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- F.B. Meyer was born in London and educated at Brighton College.
- Between 1870 and 1895 he held several successful pastorates. Between
- the years 1872 and 1874 he met D.L. Moody and introduced him to the
- British churches.
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- During much of Meyer's ministry he engaged in social work and
- temperance work. He headed a movement to close saloons, was the force
- in closing nearly 500 immoral houses, and labored for the reclamation
- of released prisoners.
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- In 1904 to 1905 he served as president of the National Federation of
- Free Churches, and thereafter was evangelist for that organization,
- conducting missions in South Africa and the Far East. For many years he
- was closely associated with the Keswick Conferences. He died in his
- 82nd year.
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