Brief lives: Henry Venn

Don Stephens  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Oct 1997
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An old Russian proverb says: 'He who lives in the past loses one eye; but he who forgets the past loses both eyes'. This is the first of a regular column over the next few months giving short biographies of some great evangelical leaders of the past.

Henry Venn is little-known nowadays. His story is not dramatic, but in his time he was much used by Christ and he has some useful lessons for us in 1997.

He was born at Barnes in Surrey in 1724. All his male ancestors back to the Reformation had been ministers in the Church of England.

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