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The Life And Ministry Of Jonas Eathorn
This man was the paralytic concerning whom Dr. Hawker has given an interesting account in his "Zion's Pilgrim." I wrote an outline of the paralytic’s life from his own mouth, at the request of Dr. Hawker, but it was never printed. I shall devote a few pages for the purpose here, as I judge many of my readers will read the history of my worthy brother, Jonas Eathorn, with much pleasure. Jonas Eathorn was by trade a barber and hairdresser. He attended close to his business, and when he went from home to attend upon gentlemen, he used generally to be seen in a full trot; but such a lover was he of white ale, (a beverage I never saw but at Plymouth,) that he…
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The Life And Testimony Of Thomas Jones
I complete my fourscore and three this day. A considerable excess on the years commonly allotted to Adam's children. Moses reckoned the "days of our years as threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they he fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow" (Psalm 90:10). No doubt this, in the general, describes a protracted life in its decadent stage, "when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow themselves" (Ecc. 12:3); but I am bound to say these conditions are mercifully mitigated in my own case thus far, so that, though daily reminded by unmistakable symptoms that I am an old man, I enjoy a fair degree of bodily health, and my principal sorrow is such as…
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The Life And Ministry Of Thomas Jones
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The Life And Ministry Of Thomas Jones
Instead of this month continuing (as intended) my notice of more of the godly ministers of past days, I will tell a little of our very old friend, who has just closed a ministry of upwards of sixty years honourably, steadfast in the faith to the end, and extensively useful. Mr. Thomas Jones, of Broseley, Shropshire, who was called home on July 4th, in the eighty-ninth year of his sage. Born in a humble cottage at Bridgenorth, March 4th, 1795, and his mother dying in his early childhood, he was cared for by her mother, but had no early advantages of education; and after the custom of those days, and that mining, quarrying, and clay-working district, had to be inured to early toil. When some…
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The Life And Ministry Of James Brown
He was a man of few words, not a great talker, but a humble walker, with a tender conscience in the fear of the Lord, and was peaceable and of a meek and quiet spirit. He could not speak of a deep law work, nor of a powerful gospel deliverance; but he could speak of being brought, through grace, to feel himself a poor, helpless, lost, and ruined sinner, and of a blessed hope in the Lord's mercy through the merits, righteousness, and precious blood of the dear Redeemer, being cut off from every other hope, help, or refuge. He always took a low place, esteeming others better than himself; but he was a real lover of God's people and of God's truth; and as…
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The Life And Testimony Of John Shaw
He was better known in the North by the familiar name of Johnnie Shaw. The late Mr. Gadsby and Mr. M'Kenzie both esteemed him highly for his work's sake. As stated in the Obituary, he was a plain country farmer, altogether unlettered, but well taught by the Spirit. In the beginning of his religious life he was a strenuous advocate for Arminianism, though at the same time his experience bore direct testimony against it, he having been deeply ploughed up in his conscience by the force and spirituality of God's most holy law. He was promised considerable property if he would become a Churchman; but, to use his own expression, "The Lord drove me away in spite of my teeth." After this he joined the…
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The Life And Testimony Of Isaac Cooper
Isaac Cooper was born in 1796. He was by trade a tailor, and at the early age of 14 went to Grantham as a journeyman, in (as he has told me) a shop, where he had companions of the worst description possible; and, influenced by their conversation and example, he very soon became addicted to every vice that one of his age and in his position could practise. At the death of his father, he returned to his native place, to gain his livelihood by following his calling there; and was soon known in the neighbourhood as a notorious character for card-playing, cock-fighting, drunkenness, fighting, revelling, and such like, with other practices not fit to mention.
