Career
He was an apologist author of two books, Westbourne Grove Sermons and The Trades and Industrial Occupations of the Bible, published by the Religious Tract Society. He was instrumental in urging James Hudson Taylor to publish China"s Spiritual Need and Claims. His influence on both of these men is noteworthy.
Spurgeon was encouraged by this fellow Baptist preacher, while he was beginning his ministry at the age of 19.
Lewis was Taylor"s pastor during the formative time of the China Inland Mission in 1865, and continued in support of the work, acting as a referee for the agency in 1872. The Broomhall children, too, grew up under the influence of this man, including author and missionary Marshall Broomhall.
Lewis, speaking at the ceremony of laying the first stone of the new Metropolitan Tabernacle for the Review C. H. Spurgeon, which took place on Tuesday 16 August 1859, said the following.
—William Garrett Lewis
In January 1881, Lewis was appointed to the pastorate of Dagnall Street Baptist Church.
He died in 1885, before the building was finished, and the stained glass window at the rear of the church was dedicated to him.
