Dear Brother,—At your request I will endeavour to give you, as well as I can, some little account of myself, and in doing so hope that something may be written that will be helpful to the little ones of Christ's flock, and, at the same time, exalt Hirn by whose grace I am what I am. There is nothing very special to be written about my earlier days save this one thing, that a gracious God watched over and preserved me, "when in the slippery paths of youth I ran." Birth-Place I will, however, begin at the beginning. I was born at Redbourn in Hertfordshire, of humble but godly parents, in the year 1864, by whom I was taught to revere the house of God…