I was born on July 30, 1854, in the village of Earl's Barton, Northamptonshire. My parents were poor, but hard-working. At the time of my birth they were not professors, but soon afterward they were called by God out of darkness into His marvelous light. I can just remember them being baptized, so from my early remembrance I was brought up to attend the house of God and to reverence the Sabbath-day. I was the subject of deep conviction very early, and the necessity of the new birth. A very distressing suicide took place in our village before I was six years old, which led me deeply to consider my state as a sinner. The Lord's-day evening that the young person lay by the walls,…