3-082-435 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Robert William Dale, D.D., of Birmingham, 1895. 'The theological world lost on March 13 one of its greatest figures, and Nonconformity its chief leader. Dr. Robert William Dale, who had been suffering for some time from a complication of diseases which again and again had brought him very near to death, passed away in the sixty-sixth year of his life and the forty-second year of his ministry..."Dale of Birmingham" he was always called; and in the roll of worthy citizens of that Midland metropolis this title will proudly stand for many a year...He early set himself to infuse into the municipal life of Birmingham the Christian principles which he so eloquently expounded. In education he took a very lively interest, and was for some time Vice-Chairman of the School Board, whereof his daughter, Miss Gertrude Dale, is now a member...His work on the Atonement, which has been translated into various languages, has become a text-book in theological colleges without distinction of sect...Lately the eminent preacher had been unable to fill his pulpit, except on rare occasions'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.