The Life And Testimony Of Catherine Little (Tucker)
Gospel Standard 1857:
Death. On the 3rd of February, 1857, at Langport, aged 40, Catherine, the beloved wife of Thos. Tucker. She was awakened to a sense of her sinful state by nature early in the year 1836. For many months she labored under a severe law-work; but the Lord was pleased to deliver her by the application of this portion of Scripture to her soul: “Fear not, I have redeemed thee; I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.” (Isaiah 43:1) Also that in Romans 8:14: “As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.” She was baptized on the 28th of August in the same year, by her beloved father, Mr. J. Little, many years pastor of the Baptist Church at Street, Somerset, but who is now in America. By the grace of God deceased was enabled to maintain a consistent profession during a period of 21 years. She was much favored with a very strong confidence in the faithfulness of a Triune Jehovah, and her personal interest in that salvation which is through the Lord Jesus Christ, and by him alone. Her death was almost sudden, and under very painful circumstances, so that surviving friends were not favored with any dying testimony; but, in a letter to her sister, dated Jan. 27th, one week before her death, she thus expressed herself: “Do we not find this world a wilderness? It is not our rest, for it is polluted! What a mercy to have found rest in Jesus, even present rest from our own works, and rest in his full and all-sufficient atonement.” “Never shall I forget,” says a friend, “how she repeated ‘Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.’ O what a mercy it is! ‘To them that have no might he increaseth strength.’ She then read, ‘Fear not, I am with thee, neither be thou dismayed, I am thy God. I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.’ ‘This is my portion,’ she said; there I can rest. ‘Tis in his righteousness I stand.'” “Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord; they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.”
J. H.
Catherine Little (Tucker) (1817-1857) was a Strict and Particular Baptist believer. She was the daughter of John Little, pastor of the church meeting at Street, Somerset. She was also the elder sister of Mary Little (Hatch).
