BIO:William Graham Scroggie

1877-1958
William Graham Scroggie was born at Great Malvern, England, 
of Scottish parents. Being one of nine children in a home 
without normal educational advantages, he grew up among the 
brethren, and later, after a few years in business, entered 
Spurgeon's College in London at the age of 19 to train for 
the Baptist ministry.
        Turned out of his first two churches in London and 
Yorkshire because of his opposition to modernism and 
worldliness, he set himself to the study of the Bible. And, 
in the next two difficult years, when he had to live with 
little to support him, he laid the foundation of all his sub-
sequent work. After pastorates in England, Scotland, New Zea-
land, Australia, Tasmania, the United States, and Canada, he 
became pastor of Spurgeon's Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, 
during World War II.
        His home was bombed on three occasions, and his his-
toric church building destroyed during an air raid.
        Increasing ill health forced him to retire in 1944. 
He devoted his remaining years to completing his literary 
work, The Unfolding Drama of Redemption. He died on December 
28, 1958.

