Protestant Truth on Fleet Street

It was my pleasure to call at the Fleet Street premises of the Protestant Truth Society this spring. Downstairs there is an impressive bookshop, upstairs a meeting room wherein a number of us gathered to hear Mr Geoff Thomas expound the scriptures that Tuesday afternoon (I understand that these talks are on a weekly basis, a different speaker each time). It was refreshing to gain some fellowship amidst a visit to the Big Smoke. It was also good to see profitable spiritual materials available on a thoroughfare more readily associated with tabloid sensationalism and massive capitalistic wealth creation.

Curiously, the macabre implement (a ship’s boiler file, above) which was used to murder John Kensit (below, left), the Society’s founder, in September 1902, hangs upon the wall. In certain churches, its equivalent might be described as a holy relic, but not here, I think.

The work of the PTS can be read about here. Stephen Holland, a PTS speaker came to Salem Chapel to give a talk on Kensit, during which the chilling object was described.