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visit Ligon.org slash 2024. Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode we are talking

about the Anglican theologian W. H. Griffith Thomas.

He was born in 1861 in Shropshire, England.

Shropshire is on the English and Welsh border and the poet

A.E. Houseman memorialized Shropshire in a collection of 63 poems he entitled,

The Shropshire Lad.

In that first poem he says,

Look left, look right, the hills are bright.

And indeed, these are the green bright hills in which Griffith Thomas grew up.

His childhood, however, was not so bright.

It was rather difficult for him.

His father died before he was born and his

grandfather died when he was 14 and he had to leave school which he dearly loved and go to work.

It was during this time though that he was also very active in his Anglican parish and in 1878 at 17 years of age he was converted.

Shortly after this, Thomas left those bright hills

for the city of London.

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