Mr. Richard Batchelor, Minister of the Gospel, born 1818; died August 23rd, 1892. This faithful servant of the Lord was well-known to the churches of truth in this neighbourhood, and also to many in Labcashire and Yorkshire. He left behiud him an account of the Lord's gracious dealings with his soul (which is too long for the present purpose) in bringing him out of an intense love of sin, and an earnest and willing service of the devil, and translating him into the kingdom of His dear Son. Oftentimes in preaching he would speak in the most feeling terms of the goodness and mercy of the Lord, displayed in his conversion; he was far off by wicked works, but the Lord found him and brought…