The subject of this sketch is pastor of the Baptist Chapel, Ryde, Australia. The following particulars concerning our veteran brother, Pastor James Hicks, have been supplied by Pastor F. Beedel, of Castle-reagh-street, Sydney, in a letter to us as follows:— Our brother was born in the parish of Bridestow, in the county of Devon, of poor but honest parents; was brought up in Bratton Clovelly; received but very little education; went to work at a farmhouse when only nine years of age, and in the days of his youth ran as most do into the sins and follies of youth, but at the age of 21, the Lord called him by His grace and brought him to Himself. His father and mother were both members…