CONCLUSION 1. It was during the last half of the 19th century that such noted preachers as Spurgeon, Parker, Ryle, Liddon, Gore, Moule, Maclaren, Newman-Hall, Dale, Forsyth, Jowett, Watson, Meyer and Whyte preached in British congregations (Dargan, vol. 2, p. 541ff). While in his early twenties Morgan heard Spurgeon and Parker preach. Exactly whom he heard as a youngster on trips with his father is unknown. We have only Jill Morgan's statement that "the boy was taken, by his father, to hear many of those whose names, forgotten now, were then famous in religious circles. Some were Welshmen, who came out of their native hills with all the fire and intensity of the Old Testament prophets" (A Man of the Word, p. 29). 2. It must be pointed out, however, that premillennialism was popular centuries before contemporary dispensationalism came into existence (Bass. p. 14ff). Not every premillennialist is necessarily a dispensationalist. "Historic premillenialism” differs from "Dispensational premillenialism" on many key issues. Helpful works include: 1) Barr, Clarence, Backgrounds to Dispensationalism. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1960; 2)Cox,Willlam, Ali Examination of Dispensationalism. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1974; 3) Crenshaw, Curtis and Gunn, Grove, Dispensationalism Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow, Footstool publications 4) Fuller, Daniel, Gospel and Law: Contrast or Continuum? The Hermeneutics of Dispensatlonalism, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980; and 5) Hoekema, Anthony, The Bible and the Future. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979. 3. Examples of dispensational themes in Morgan's preaching (including dispensational eschatology) can be found elsewhere in this thesis. I refer the reader to chapter 3 p. 58ff and to chapter 5, p. 97ff. 4. I refer the reader to the developments in hermeneutics traced in chapter three.

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