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Smith Wigglesworth: The Plumber Who Became an Apostle of Faith and Shaped Twentieth-Century Pentecostalism

Smith Wigglesworth: The Plumber Who Became an Apostle of Faith and Shaped Twentieth-Century Pentecostalism

Quill, Spirit

Paperback

British HistoryHistoriography

ISBN13: 9798188432379
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 22 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.23 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

He could barely read. He struggled to string together a coherent sentence in public. And by the time he died, evangelists across the world credited him with reshaping the course of modern Pentecostalism.

Smith Wigglesworth was born into poverty in a small Yorkshire town in 1859, the son of a family that struggled to keep food on the table. He grew up illiterate, spoke with a persistent stammer, and showed no early sign of the influence he would eventually carry. It was his wife, Polly, a gifted preacher whose spiritual maturity outpaced his own for years, who taught him to read using the only book he would ever fully commit himself to studying, the Bible itself.

This book traces Wigglesworth's complete life story, from his childhood conversion at a Methodist revival meeting through the difficult years of anger and spiritual failure that nearly ended his marriage, his discovery of divine healing, his transformative baptism of the Holy Spirit at the 1907 Sunderland Revival, and the devastating loss of his wife that unexpectedly launched him into international ministry. It follows him across America, Australia, India, and Europe, through institutional controversy and physical suffering, to the final day of his life in 1947, a life spent almost entirely in active ministry.

Readers interested in the history of Pentecostalism, the divine healing movement, or the broader story of twentieth century Christian revival will find in Wigglesworth's life a case study in how conviction, discipline, and personal transformation can emerge from the most unlikely beginnings. This is not simply an account of dramatic healings and bold public ministry, though both are recorded here in full. It is the story of a man built slowly, through failure, grief, and sustained daily discipline, into someone capable of carrying his faith to nations he never expected to visit.

For readers drawn to the lives of figures who shaped history against every apparent odds, Smith Wigglesworth's story offers both a window into a pivotal era of Christian history and a portrait of what sustained faithfulness can accomplish across an ordinary human life. His journey begins in a Yorkshire workshop. It does not end there.

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