“Detestable to the soul”: George MacDonald and Charles Spurgeon
And much more!

“If any man can finish There and Back without feeling his motives higher and purer than when be began, then either he has read with eyes alone and not with heart, or his heart is too insignificant to be of any account…”
—from a review in Christian World, July 2, 1891

“Dr. MacDonald’s appearance is striking—a tall, sturdy figure, slightly bowed by age, surmounted by a grand head, with bushy snow-white hair and beard; a head in fact, which somehow reminds one of an old prophet of the wilderness…”
—from a newspaper report of a lecture MacDonald gave in Belfast in 1891

“There are thousands of young women in London who are practically homeless for two or three hours after their day’s work is done; and it is a disgrace to us as a people that while so much care and toil have been expended over young men in a corresponding position, that sisters should have been so little considered.”
—from an address George MacDonald gave in May, 1876

Photograph of Sir Edward Troup and Lady Winifred Troup in court dress for the Coronation of King George V, 1911.
The Fall issue of Wingfold features Barbara’s in-depth research on the Troup family, which George’s daughter Winifred married into. And don’t miss the two articles on George’s 1867 sermon, “The Touchstone of Truth!”

Contents of the Summer 2022 Issue