I was born, June, 1849, in the town of Preston, in the county of Lancashire, England. I thank God that I was led to the Vauxhall Baptist Sunday-school, and there had the teaching of a God-honouring man. I received much sound Biblical knowledge, and the prayers of my dear grandmother, and her steadfastness in the truth of God, often comes across my mind, for I well remember how she used to leave the large congregations to attend the sect everywhere spoken against, the Particular Baptists. [My grandmother was baptized by the late William Gadsby.] I was often led to enquire in my mind how it was that as others of the family would attend the fashionable Churches, that dear grandmother would take me with her…