Long before this Number of the Gospel Magazine is in the hands of its readers, they will doubtless have heard of the removal to his eternal inheritance of our late valued friend and occasional correspondent, Mr. Arthur Triggs. He now realizes, in all their fulness and power, those glorious things upon which, during a lengthened ministry, he was wont to dwell. That “most glorious Christ,” whose sacred person was his all-engrossing theme, now stands revealed to him in all His perfection, loveliness, and glory. The consciousness of this fact brings to our remembrance a little circumstance in connexion with his ministry when he was in the zenith of his popularity as a preacher. He was preaching on a Sabbath evening, as was usual, to a…

This honoured servant of God was born in the village of Kingston in Devon on April 23, 1787 of poor parents and in a cottage made mostly of mud. So desperately ill was he as an infant that the doctor gave him up and said he must die; his tongue was black and hanging out and his poor mother placed upon it a slice of broiled pork and to everyone’s amazement his tongue began to move and he sucked the nourishment till he began to mend. This is but one of the extraordinary providences which he passed through. But the amazing deliverances wrought by God did not touch his soul with gratitude and he lived in vile company with hatred to God. He “wanted to…

Dear Sir,—It is seldom that the pen of your writers is employed in describing the history of one so eminently taught to preach the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as was our dear departed brother Mr. Arthur Triggs. With what simplicity, power, and grandeur did he set forth the covenant love of Jehovah in His Trinity of persons, as being all engaged to ensure the salvation of lost and ruined man; of the union which exists between Christ and His body the Church,—He the Head, we the members; and of our being complete in Him. Led by the Holy Ghost to enjoy a personal interest in that union, he was often wont to adopt a higher tone of expression than could many…

Mr. Triggs, whose portrait accompanies our present Number, was born at Kingston, in Devonshire, in the year 1787, and first entered the ministry in 1817. For the last fifteen or sixteen years he has laboured over a church at Plymouth. From his very interesting book, entitled, “A Memorial of the Loving-kindnesses, Tender Mercies, and Sovereign Grace, of the Lord God of Israel,” we find that he was originally brought up to the trade of a stone-mason. In the work referred to he furnishes the reader with many very striking interpositions, both in providence and grace, to which he can bear testimony in his own experience. Those who were favoured to hear the late beloved Dr. Hawker, during his life­ time, cannot, in our opinion, but…