This physically frail but spiritually robust woman  had a remarkable ministry which stressed the centrality of the cross of Christ in the Life and experience of the Christian.  Her life spanned much of the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth.  She first took her place as a sinner before that cross as the wife  of a young British civil servant, and proclaimed its message tirelessly from that time on, not only in England but also in Scandinavia, Russia and North America.  A frequent speaker  at the Keswick Conventions, she started the Llandrindod Convention in Wales, and later the Matlock Conferences  Mrs Penn-Lewis has stirred millions through her writings. She contributed regularly to  "The Overcomer" which she founded in 1908

"Trials and Triumphs" "Jessie Penn Lewis A Memoir"  "In The Mold of The Cross" 

 Jessie Penn Lewis refers to early days as a time of great spiritual growth and  consecration which grew in spite of ill health and a frail body into an astonishing active life.  She became God's spokeswoman in Europe The United States and Britain.

These three biographies give a crisscross view and not a redundant look at this most extraordinary woman of God.   She brought spiritual warfare into focus as a viable teaching and need to know for a spiritual worker.

The beginning of "Leading of the Lord"

The Leading of the Lord

A Spiritual Autobiography

I was brought up in the very heart of the religious life of Wales, for my grandfather was a Welsh Divine, well known throughout the Principality in his day; and my father's house was a rendezvous for the ministers as they passed hither and thither on their Master's work. My childhood's memories gather round their visits and the great meetings of the Sunday-schools, when often I sat as a tiny child in the midst of the grave elders in the "big pew"  listening with intense interest to the "hwyl" of the minister.  "The mercy of the Lord is ... unto children's children"; but as it often is with children brought up in the midst of religious surroundings, the true inward change of heart did not come until I had married and moved away to England. Then it occurred without the aid of any human instrument, but the day - New Year's Day- and the hour are imprinted on my mind. 

Only a deep, inward desire to know that I was a child of God; a taking down of my (too little read) Bible from the shelf; a turning over the leaves, and the eye falling on the words, "The Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all"; again, a casual turn of the sacred pages, and the words, "He that believeth hath eternal life.  A quick facing out whether I did believe that God had laid my sins upon the Lamb of God on the Cross; a pause of wonderment that it really said that I had eternal life if I simply believed God's Word; a quick cry of  "Lord I do believe" - and one more soul had passed from death to life, a trophy of the grace of God, and the love of Him Who died. The Spirit of God instantly bore witness with my spirit that I was a child of God, and deep peace filled my soul