Introduction

Biography

Campbell was the son of Welsh­man George Mor­gan, a strict Ply­mouth Breth­ren mem­ber who re­signed and be­came a Bap­tist min­is­ter, and Eli­za­beth Fawn Brit­tan.

He was very sick­ly as a child, could not at­tend school, and so was tu­tored.

When Camp­bell was 10 years old, Dwight Moo­dy came to Eng­land for the first time, and the ef­fect of his min­is­try, com­bined with the de­di­ca­tion of his par­ents, made such an im­pres­sion on young Mor­gan that at the age of 13 he preached his first ser­mon.

Two years lat­er he was preach­ing re­gu­lar­ly in coun­try cha­pels dur­ing his Sun­days and ho­li­days.

In 1883 he was teach­ing in Birm­ing­ham, but in 1886, at the age of 23, he left the teach­ing pro­fess­ion and de­vot­ed him­self to preach­ing and Bi­ble ex­po­si­tion.

He was or­dained to the Con­gre­ga­tion­al min­is­try in 1890. He had no for­mal train­ing for the min­is­try, but his de­vo­tion to stu­dy­ing of the Bi­ble made him one of the lead­ing Bi­ble teach­ers in his day. His re­pu­ta­tion as preach­er and Bi­ble ex­po­si­tor grew through­out Bri­tain and spread to Am­eri­ca.

In 1896, Moo­dy in­vit­ed him to lec­ture to the stu­dents at the Moo­dy Bi­ble In­sti­tute, Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois. This was the first of his 54 cross­ings of the At­lan­tic to preach and teach.

After Moo­dy’s death in 1899, Mor­gan as­sumed the po­si­tion of di­rect­or of the North­field Bi­ble Con­fer­ence. He was or­dained by the Con­gre­ga­tion­alists in Lon­don, and giv­en a Doc­tor of Di­vi­ni­ty de­gree by the Chi­ca­go Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry in 1902.

After five suc­cess­ful years in this ca­pa­ci­ty, he re­turned to England in 1904 and be­came pas­tor of West­min­ster Cha­pel in Lon­don. Dur­ing two years of this min­is­try, he was pre­si­dent of Ches­hunt Col­lege in Cam­bridge.

His preach­ing and week­ly Fri­day night Bi­ble class­es were at­tend­ed by thou­sands. In 1910 Mor­gan con­trib­ute­d an es­say ti­tled The Pur­pos­es of the In­ca­rn­at­ion to the first vol­ume of The Fun­da­ment­als, 90 es­says which are wide­ly con­sid­ered to be the foun­da­tion of the mo­dern Fun­da­ment­al­ist move­ment.

Leaving West­min­ster Cha­pel in 1919, he once again re­turned to Am­eri­ca, where he con­duct­ed an itin­er­ant preach­ing and teach­ing min­is­try for 14 years.

Finally, in 1933, he re­turned to Eng­land, where he again be­came pas­tor of West­min­ster Chap­el. He stayed there un­til re­tir­ing in 1943.

Works

• The Cris­es of the Christ (New York: Flem­ing H. Re­vell, 1903)
• The Ten Com­mand­ments (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: Bi­ble In­sti­tute Col­port­age As­so­cia­tion, 1901)
• The Prac­tice of Pray­er
• Handbook for Bi­ble Teach­ers and Preach­ers
• Life Ap­pli­ca­tions from Ev­ery Chap­ter of the Bi­ble
• The Teach­ing of Christ
• Concise Sur­vey of the Bi­ble
• The Min­is­try of the Word
• Understanding the Ho­ly Spir­it: Pul­pit Le­gends, with Charles H. Spur­geon
• The An­al­yzed Bi­ble
• The God Who Cares
• God’s Last Word to Man
• The West­min­ster Pul­pit: the Preach­ing of G. Camp­bell Mor­gan
• God’s Per­fect Will
• An Ex­po­si­tion of the Whole Bi­ble
• The Mi­nor Pro­phets: The Men and Their Mes­sage (Flem­ing H. Re­vell, 1960)