• Thomas Poock

    Sorrow And Salvation

    This blessed chapter is particularly memorable to my soul, the good Lord having applied the 3rd verse with such power to my almost distracted mind thirty-eight years ago, that I can never read, think, or preach from any part of it, without remembering that deliverance I then so visibly received from my Lord;—indeed, I find every sentence a sermon throughout…

  • Thomas Poock

    The Poetic Testimony Of Thomas Poock

    Dear friend in the gospel, you ask for a line,  The which I will send you as I can get time;  And this is the subject on which I shall dwell— To write of my Jesus, who sav'd me from hell. I often am led of my history to think; And while I remember, I shudder and shrink. My birth…

  • Thomas Poock

    The Life And Ministry Of Thomas Poock

    The late Mr. Thomas Poock was born at Brompton, near Chatham, Kent, on the 21st Feb., 1797. His early life was "full of striking incidents and marvelous activeness." Bereaved of his mother in early childhood, he became a poor, helpless, friendless outcast consequently was placed in a very trying position. An uncle, who lived many miles away, hearing of it,…

  • Charles Rolfe

    Can You Give Me The Gospel You Offer?

    The late Charles Rolfe (1802-1877), Rector of Shadoxhurst and Orlestone, Kent, a good scholar in the school of Christ, a consistent follower of the Lamb, and a faithful champion for the truth, frequently told an anecdote of a person who went to a minister who had been offering salvation to all who chose to accept it, and said to him,…

  • Charles Rolfe

    The Life And Ministry Of Charles Rolfe

    What a beautiful thing is real friendship! and especially when it is backed up with such manifestations, and practical proofs, as demonstrate its sincerity. Jonathan showed the sincerity of his love to David by interceding with his father Saul in David's behalf; and Boaz gave the most practical proof of his friendship to Ruth by letting her glean in his…