Hall, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN

Hall, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN, Congregational minister, was the son of John Vine Hall, author of The Sinner's Friend, and was born at Maidstone on 22d May 1816. Having graduated at London University, he preached in Hull 1842-54, and then removing to London, was till 1892 minister of Surrey Chapel or Christchurch, Lambeth, which was originally founded by Rowland Hill. He enjoyed wide repute as an eloquent and popular preacher, and is the author of several works of a devotional character, some of which, as Come to Jesus, The Call of the Master, and The Man Christ Jesus, have had an enormous sale. He has also written Antidote to Fear, Meditations on the Lord's Prayer, Pilgrim Songs, In Cloud and Sunshine, &c. See his Autobiography (1898).