The Life And Testimony Of Sarah Mortimer (Gilbert)
Gospel Standard 1868:
At Avebury, on February 24th, 1868, aged 69, Sarah Gilbert. She was my sister in the flesh, and I believe, in the Lord.
She was one of fourteen who made the church formed at Avebury in 1830. She was convinced of her state as a sinner before God in 1826, and attended the ministry of Mr. Pontin, who then brought the truth into that village. He was one of the friends of what is now called the Old Baptist Chapel, Devizes. Sarah was taught by the Spirit her condemnation by the law, and the mercy of God in Christ justifying her by imputed righteousness, which she ever gloried in. She was often tossed with tempest, and sometimes sweetly comforted; therefore, being, often emptied from vessel to vessel, she was not like Moab, but had a hearing and taste and smell in the word and ways of God. She was blessed with a sound mind, which led to a consistent walk in the ways of God.
She was the mother of eleven children, and her husband being only a Wiltshire labourer, she was sometimes very tried, but out of it ail the Lord delivered her.
She went down to her end in peace with God. Her last words were, “On the Rock! On the Rock!”
William Mortimer
Sarah Mortimer (Gilbert) (1799-1868) was a Strict and Particular Baptist believer. She was the sister of William Mortimer, for seventeen years pastor for the congregation meeting at the old Baptist chapel in Chippenham
