The severe and protracted sufferings of our beloved brother, William Hazelton, were brought to a close by death on Lord's-day evening, January 11th, at 8.20, in the National Hospital, Queen's Square, Bloomsbury, London. It will be remembered by many of our readers who attended the Annual Meetings of the Suffolk and Norfolk Particular Baptist Association, on June 6th, 1888, at Laxfeld, that our brother Hazelton was urged to preach the evening sermon on that occasion, and after much hesitancy he yielded to the call, and preached (what proved to be his last sermon) from the words, "I will work, and who shall let it?" (Isa. 43:18), and which he divided as follows:—I. The text in relation to the Speaker Himself. II. Its relation to His…

In taking up the pen to write the memoir of a good man, one feels the deep need of superintending grace, so that the right words may be used. There is, at the same time, the consciousness that peculiar mental qualifications are necessary to the right performance of such a task. Whatever qualification the present writer may lack, he feels he can plead the important one of intimate acquaintance. During the whole of Mr. Hazelton's pastorate at Lewisham, and up to the time of his death, our dear brother and the present writer were on the terms of closest friendship, and it is a joy, while writing, to be able to say that the friendship was never disturbed by a single misunderstanding.