Lectures and more lectures

It's like being a student again, except that when I was a student I didn't go to as many lectures as I've been reading today.

It's been fascinating to see how Hugh Stowell Brown drew up to 8,000 people on a Sunday afternoon to hear a lecture. Just a talk. No Powerpoint, no dancing girls, not even a worship band. Times were different in 1854, but still he must have had something special.

I've written over half of the chapter on Hugh's public lectures, but I had hoped to finish it today.