Our brother, Mr. I. C. Johnson, informs me you have expressed a wish to be furnished with a few details concerning my unworthy self, for use in our denominational magazine. Those details will be mainly of such circumstances in my life as are particularly connected with the particular and special mercy of a covenant God. One in looking back upon all the past, feels to have more occasion than others to gratefully hymn:— “O to grace how great a debtor,  Daily I'm constrained to be." On the 19th of July, 1857, my eyes first saw the light of day in the old town of the beautiful Sussex sea-side resort, Eastbourne. Several times during my boyhood days was I brought in imminent danger of losing my…