All three of my daughters heard Dr Martyn Lloyd Jones preaching on his visits to Aberystwyth, but none of my nine grandchildren were born during his long and blessed life. Three of those eight boys so far are in the Christian ministry and they would be familiar with the books and recorded sermons of ‘the Doctor’. I want them all to discover the fascination,

authority, eloquence, practical helpfulness and blessing of his exemplary

preaching. What good it would do all of them! The story of his becoming a Christian, and then receiving a summons to become a preacher during the post-First World War period that was characterised by a national turning away from confessional Christianity, and his move to a church in Port Talbot and then to London, is quite incredible. I have written these pages to introduce the rising generation all over the world to this remarkable life.