Our brother was born of believing parents, but, like his Lord, very little is known of the days of his childhood. It seems, however, that having been "loved with an everlasting love," he was drawn by loving-kindness to His feet in early life, and was baptized by Mr. Chamberlain, of Jubilee-street, Stepney. The work of grace appears to have been shallow at the onset, but afterwards deepened, chiefly through being brought under the powerful ministrations of Mr. Philpot. To one special occasion he often referred, which was when this most useful man of God preached upon Jeremiah 48:11: "Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he…