Charles Simeon is an example of a believer who was a blessing even to people rejected him as their beloved pastor. Charles Simeon’s sermons have blessed my life. He produced twenty-one volumes of sermons. Today the Charles Simeon Trust holds workshop on preaching not only in American but around the world. He being dead still influences though his sermons. Simeon was appointed pastor of Trinity Church in 1782 in Cambridge by bishop of the evangelical wing of the Anglican Church. The church wanted the assistant to the pastor who had left. The assistant’s name was Mr. Hammond. Simeon was willing to step aside, but the bishop insisted and Simeon therefore considered this appointment the will of God.
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