T. Jones
T. Jones (?) was a Strict and Particular Baptist preacher. He served the pastorate of the churches meeting at Cubberley, Cheltehham; Providence, Slaithwaite; College-park, Lewisham. In connection with his second pastorate over the church at Cubberley, he wrote, “There I laboured for six years, and found some of the warmest and most devoted friends, and a few of the most unkind and inconsiderate enemies. The latter were a source of great trial to me, and an hindrance to the work of Christ in that place. This so affected my mind that I determined to leave as soon as I possibly could, which event took place the last Lord's-day in July, 1894.” A sad testimony indeed, for church and pastor.
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The Life And Ministry Of T. Jones
Dear Brother,—In compliance with your very kind request, I herewith send a few particulars of my early days, as leading up to the subsequent statement related at Zion, New Cross, on April 30, 1895, at public recognition services. Well, sir, I was never drowned, scalded, nor burned. I am thankful that, through mercy, I escaped these evils, which are the general incidents accompanying autobiographies; nevertheless, I narrowly escaped the undertaker, as the doctors gave me up as incurable over twenty years since, assigning as their reason that the left lung had gone, and the right was fast going. I must leave other people to judge of the accuracy of those professional gentlemen. In the month of August, 1846, in the busy time of harvest, it…
