J. C. Ryle: Prepared to Stand Alone Christian living Part 1: My Road to

Part 1: My Road to Emmaus

and sharing in the sorrow and hope of Christ’s bride

Nineteenth-century author David Dickson provided this brief

and Why We Should Obey Them

J. C. Ryle: Prepared to Stand Alone Christian living Part 1: My Road toThe life of J. C. Ryle has only to be heard once to be remembered. His 84 years (18161900) included remarkable contraststhe promise of a fortune, then the poverty of a bankrupt; a Suffolk country pastor, then bishop of the leading seaport of the British Empire. But there was a still greater changefrom the successful youth at Eton and Oxford, who did not pray or read his Bible till he was 21, to become a Christian bold as a lion for the truth of Gods