Edward Bickersteth (bishop of Exeter) Quotes

Edward Henry Bickersteth was a bishop in the Church of England.

✵ 25. January 1825 – 16. May 1906
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Edward Bickersteth (bishop of Exeter) Quotes

“With trembling hand that from Thy table fall,
A weary, heavy laden sinner comes,
To plead Thy promise and obey Thy call.”

Edward Bickersteth (bishop of Exeter)

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 370.

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