Dear Brother,—According to your request, I send you a few particulars of my life. I was born on March 3rd, 1853, and as the Scriptures affirm, and which I fully believe, born in sin, as my after-life goes to prove, although I thank God I was never left to enter into any open sin which the world could point to with the finger of scorn. Yet I can say with the Psalmist, "My sin or mine iniquities are great," and have more than once felt the truth of John Bradford's words when he saw a man walking up to the gallows, "There goes John Bradford but for the grace of God." Twice in the course of my boyhood have I been preserved from death, which…