Mr. C. Cornwell, the pastor of Brixton Tabernacle, was born in Cambridgeshire in 1833, and was sent to a day-school, and afterwards to a school connected with the National Church at Horningsea, but he left early. Some few years afterwards he resided at Waterbeach, and attended the Baptist Sunday School when Mr. C. H. Spurgeon first commenced his labours there. Mr. Cornwell was called by grace when about seventeen or eighteen years of age. He was brought up in his early days to farming, but afterwards became a carpenter, at which trade he worked. When thirty years of age, he began to preach the Gospel, but, sadly lamenting his lack of education, devoted much time to self-improvement, and reading soon became a pleasure to him.…