Dear Brother,—The year 1858, on August 23rd, in the ancient city of Coventry, was the time and place fixed by the Great First Cause of all events for ushering into this world—beautiful in its created glory, though blighted by Adam's sin—of the one who has been spared to write this. I was left fatherless when nearly eight years of age, but was tenderly loved and cared for by a godly mother, who leaning hard upon the God of the fatherless and widow, was enabled to struggle on amidst difficulties in educating and starting her boy in life. I was duly apprenticed to learn the trade of printing and stationery. My parents and family belonging to the Church of England, I was, in babyhood's days christened,…