Alexander Fletcher (Minister) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Rev. Dr. Alexander Fletcher (1787-1860), the Children's Friend, was a Scottish Presbyterian, and later an Independent (Congregationalist) divine in England. Author of numerous devotional works, and founder of the Finsbury Chapel in London, he was widely acknowledged as the pioneer of preaching to audiences of children and attracting large crowds of young people to nonconformist chapels through specially designed events and services as well as through Sunday Schools. He is also noted for his support of missionary work, and for the abolition of slavery in the USA. Educated at the Grammar School at Stirling, then at Glasgow University as a student of divinity under tutorship of Dr Lawson of Selkirk, Alexander Fletcher first became licensed by the Presbytery in 1806. He was called by his local church in 'Bridge of Teith' on the banks of the River Teith, to be his father's colleague and successor.