William Wilberforce
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Oct 27, 2026
Lydia SchaibleHOST
She moved out of the city and into the countryside, but her move to the country was not a retreat from the world.
Lydia SchaibleHOST
In 1784, she met William Wilberforce, who was a member of Parliament and a friend of John Newton as well.
Lydia SchaibleHOST
Upon visiting Hannah out in her home in the countryside, Wilberforce had gone out on a hike in the Cheddar area, which was a collection of various villages, and he noted just the terrible destitution, particularly among the children there.
Lydia SchaibleHOST
These were largely mining communities.
Lydia SchaibleHOST
They were just known for being poor, corrupt, terrible places for children in particular.
Lydia SchaibleHOST
This was not common at the time.
Lydia SchaibleHOST
There were maybe a few of those schools for the poor, but they were not popular.
Lydia SchaibleHOST
Along with Wilberforce and Newton, who she ended up meeting and befriending, and had a lifelong friendship with, Hannah was part of what was known as the Clapham sect.
Gary HaugenGUEST
Exactly.
Gary HaugenGUEST
It says, as William Wilberforce said, all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.
Gary HaugenGUEST
And in our communities, where there are illicit businesses that are exploiting people who are vulnerable.
Gary HaugenGUEST
That's only possible because people of goodwill are not paying attention.
Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
abbey and until the
Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
year eighteen sixty seven the bishop appointed the minister in that pastorate he lived and labored for just fifty-four years through many vicissitudes of good report and evil amidst serious and complicated difficulties and with results which were felt far and wide he died november thirteen eighteen thirty six in his rooms in king's college and was buried six days later in the great vault beneath the pavement of the antechapel we may notice that simeon's life was almost exactly contemporary with that of his illustrious friend and fellow canterbridgean william wilberforce who was born in seventeen fifty nine and died in eighteen thirty three william pitt the younger began his shorter life also in seventeen fifty nine but pitt an undergraduate at fifteen had left cambridge before simeon entered Another famous name of 1759 is Richard Pawson.
Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
Like Simeon, and along with him, Pawson was on the foundation of Eton, and he took his bachelor's degree from Trinity College in 1782.
Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
Simeon outlasted the great Greek scholar seven and twenty years, surviving from a Cambridge which
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Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
ever.
Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
End quote.
Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
William Wilberforce, 1832, quote, How little
Phil ChenevereNARRATOR
you have any conception of the degree in which you have exercised my thoughts, and still more my affections, since the receipt of your last truly kind and deeply interesting letter, end quote.
Matt GiulianoHOST
In 1871, after the Civil War and Emancipation, he attended Wilberforce University in Ohio, which is one of three historically black universities that were established before the war.
Matt GiulianoHOST
The university was named after the English abolitionist William Wilberforce, who led the campaign in English Parliament to abolish the slave trade in 1807.
Matt GiulianoHOST
In his preface to Twicinta Seminoles, Whitman has a lovely passage about poetry.
Matt GiulianoHOST
Quote, I began to try sayings of poetry before I even knew what writing was.
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Matt GiulianoHOST
Gaines is U.S. General Edmund P. Gaines, the namesake of Gainesville, Florida.
Matt GiulianoHOST
Bruce is Robert the Bruce, who led Scotland to regain independence from England in the 1300s.
Matt GiulianoHOST
Brown is abolitionist John Brown, and Lovejoy is the American abolitionist martyr Elijah Lovejoy, who was killed by a pro-slavery mob in 1837.
Matt GiulianoHOST
None of these references are load-bearing, and the senses, if not the specifics, were all pretty obvious in context.
Doug NormanNARRATOR
Whose work do we sustain and who sustains ours? The other thing which I love about the Evangelical Awake meetings, because I think they give us a model for how we should be participating in the world today, is faith also, the evangelical faith also became the substance of organized reform.
Doug NormanNARRATOR
You had William Wilberforce, Grandville Sharpe, Hannah Moore, they worked against slavery and for general moral reform in society.
Doug NormanNARRATOR
You had a guy called Robert Rakes who promoted Sunday schools, which mainly for the lower working classes, which had significant impact.
Doug NormanNARRATOR
I mean, we think of our little Sunday school.
Andy ColemanHOST
And you're right.
Andy ColemanHOST
The same things that could be said about Charlie Kirk or that could be said about Ann Whitacombe, if something had happened long ago to William Wilberforce, people could have been like, oh, well, he was engaging in political speeches.
Andy ColemanHOST
He was trying to end slavery and he was trying to live these Christian values, but that's really political.
Andy ColemanHOST
He just was, no, we see that Christian values should extend beyond just Sunday morning worship in a church.
Shane IdlemanHOST
Don't get political.
Shane IdlemanHOST
Read the story of William Wilberforce.
Shane IdlemanHOST
Glad he was political, aren't you? And so you look at how Christianity came in, the sanctity of life.
Shane IdlemanHOST
Hey, maybe we shouldn't throw our girls, baby girls in the river anymore because we don't want them.
speaker_0HOST
They believed them and they acted upon it.
speaker_0HOST
William Wilberforce, he lobbied to free the slaves.
speaker_0HOST
Lord Shaftesbury stopped child labor.
speaker_0HOST
John Groom starts help for the disabled.
speaker_1GUEST
where relationships flourish, where peace is loved, heavenly wisdom operates, and it's a stunning thing to behold.
speaker_1GUEST
A lot of people, when they think about Christianity in Britain, think about something called the Clapham Set, which was a group of people that included William Wilberforce, who contended against slavery, and it included all sorts of other activists who saw goodness, beauty, and truth come in their lifetime.
speaker_1GUEST
And there's a brilliant social commentator and thinker called Sir Neil Ferguson who said this quote that struck me recently.
speaker_1GUEST
And he was writing it actually not as a follower of Jesus, although he subsequently has become a Christian.
Carl KuhlGUEST
It's David Livingstone leaving the comforts of England and moving to Africa, not to explore, not to exploit, but because, quote, these people need Jesus.
Carl KuhlGUEST
It's William Wilberforce, because of his faith, taking on the whole British empire to end the slave trade.
Carl KuhlGUEST
And frankly, if you haven't realized, it's the story of this church.
Carl KuhlGUEST
It's every volunteer.
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