CONFERENCE TALK: LIFE AND MINISTRY OF J.C. RYLE – PART 6 (FINAL)
He Faced Controversy in Standing for the Truth Ryle disturbed the hornet’s nest of lukewarm Christianity with his preaching and stand. Complaints were brought against him very early in his ministry when he spoke against late-night cricket matches on Saturdays. And when the young Ryle refused to join in cards, dances or parties, he was ridiculed as being ‘an enthusiastic, fanatical mad dog’. When Ryle was in Winchester, the third son of the evangelical politician William Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce tried…