J P L
This physically frail but spiritually robust woman
had a remarkable ministry which stressed
the centrality of the cross of Christ in the Life
and experience of the Christian. Her life spanned
much of the last quarter of the nineteenth century
and the first quarter of the twentieth. She first took
her place as a sinner before that cross as the wife
of a young British civil servant, and proclaimed its
message tirelessly from that time on, not only in
her native England but also in Scandinavia,
Russia and North America. A frequent speaker
at the Keswick Conventions, she started the
Llandrindod Convention in Wales, and later the
Matlock Conferences Mrs Penn-Lewis has stirred
millions through her writings. She contributed
regularly to "The Overcomer" which she founded in 1908
