Comfort My People: 19th Century British Evangelicalism and the Restoration of Israel

... These stirring words were written by Mrs. Annie Webb (1805-1880) in the preface to her first novel, Naomi or The Last Days of Jerusalem, which was published in 1841, at a time in British history when the majority of Evangelical Church of England ministers were of a pre-millennial persuasion. It is interesting to note that Annie Webb’s son, Hanmer William Webb-Peploe (1837-1923), was one of the founders of the Advent Testimony Movement (1917), known today as Prophetic Witness Movement International (PWMI), the world’s oldest surviving pre-trib prophecy movement...