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He was a bible clerk of the college from 1612 to 1615. He died on Feb. 5, 1672, aged 72, and was buried in a side chantry of the lady-chapel at Gloucester, in which his wife Elizabeth, who predeceased him on 20 April 1663, had also been interred. His hearers were always affected one way or another. iii. “Prayer might be called his habit, for he loved to pray.
pp. Nicholson used straightforward language which communicated to the common man.
In the Belfast shipyard of Harland & Wolff, a shed, named "the Nicholson shed", was erected to house stolen tools that newly converted workers were returning as a result of Nicholson's preaching.
Works
- Goodbye God: Twelve Stirring Messages (Stanley Barnes, 1998)
Bibliography
- Barnes, Stanley All for Jesus: The Life of W.P.
Nicholson, Ambassador Intl, 1996,
- Murray, S W W P Nicholson: Flame for God in Ulster, Presbyterian Fellowship, Belfast, 1973
- Ravenhill, Leonard Billy Nicholson - The Irish Whitefield
Notes and References
- http://www.evangelical-times.org/archive/item/778/Historical/The-revival-that-healed-a-nation-s-wounds/ Evangelical Times article: The revival that healed a nation’s wounds
- http://www.pentecostalpioneers.org/W.P..html W.P.
Nicholson
William P. Nicholson – 1877- 1959
by David Smithers
William Patteson Nicholson
True passionate preaching is the flower and fruit of passionate praying. pp. Sometimes we had more riot than revival, but never a revival without a riot.” Nicholson wielded the Sword of the Spirit with a fury.
I do not know the best friends I ever had the way I know the Lord. He preached on every aspect of hell with such zeal and passion that his hearers claimed to be able to almost smell the burning sulphur. Easy Analysis of the whole Book of Psalms, 1662.
[Bloxam’s Registers of Magdalen, i. I do not know the best friends I ever had the way I know the Lord.
Still others, under deep conviction and anxiety, dripped with sweat and unconsciously shredded the hymn books they held in their laps.
Through this kind of fervent preaching, God brought entire communities face to face with the question, “What shall I do with Jesus?” One elderly man who had recollections of the Ulster Revival of 1859 said that some of the effects of Nicholson’s meetings even exceeded what happened in ‘59.
. 47). In 1663 he caused a new font to be erected in Gloucester Cathedral, and solemnly dedicated it.
815, 817, 918). “In the mercy of God, an intervention came from an unexpected source. Lord, will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice and delight in You? (Psa. Such a charge, however, is entirely inconsistent with all we know of Nicholson’s character; his ‘unshaken loyalty and bold and pertinacious defense of the church during its most helpless and hopeless depression had given him strong and legitimate claims on the patronage of the government’ (Heber, Life of Taylor, p.
For this he was attacked in a scurrilous pamphlet, entitled “More News from Rome” (Wood, Athenae Oxon. He graduated with a B.A. in 1611, and an M.A. 1615.