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The Life And Testimony Of Elizabeth Walters
Death. On March 25th, 1857, aged 20 years, Elizabeth Walters, the beloved niece of C. H. Walters, pastor of the Baptist church, South Chard, of which church she was a member at the time of her death. Her parents were strongly attached to the forms and ceremonies of the Church of England, in which they brought her up till she was about nine years of age, when it pleased God to remove her to reside with her uncle, where her mind became impressed with a feeling sense of her state as a lost sinner. The first powerful impressions were in an address delivered by J. J. of B., to the Sunday-school children and others, which, with other things, caused her, through the Spirit of God,…
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The Life And Ministry Of Henry Birch
Mr. Birch was the last surviving son of the Rev. Thomas Birch, of Thoresby, Lincolnshire. When at Magdalen College, Oxford, the Lord was pleased to convince him of sin, and he became greatly alarmed concerning his eternal state. The thoughts of eternity would intrude when pursuing his studies so as to unfit him for his ordinary duties, and the only books from which he found comfort and spiritual instruction at that time (from the best information we can get) were "Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress" and Luther's "Commentary on the 51st Psalm." But the Lord having effectually begun the great work of calling a sinner out of darkness into his marvelous light, he fell yet into deeper soul trouble, and his downcast countenance manifested so legibly his…
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The Life And Ministry Of Stephen Offer
On May 22nd, 1854, in the blessed hope of a glorious resurrection, Stephen Offer, Fyfield, Wiltshire, who for more than 30 years preached the word of life in the village of Netheravon, and occasionally in the towns and villages adjacent, viz., Devizes, Allington, Enford, Upavon, &c., being well known and much esteemed by the children of God in those parts. Being led much into the depths of the fall, he felt much the plague of his own heart, though he was one who pondered well the path of his feet, and gained a good report among men for his candour and uprightness. A remark made by one of the villagers since his decease speaks much. He said, "Stephen was always calling himself a vile creature…
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The Life And Testimony Of Eleanor Bean
On July 12th, at Sandwich, Kent, Eleanor Bean, daughter of the late William Bean, who for many years was a lover of the distinguishing truths of the gospel, and died in the faith of it two years ago. Although the tenour of Eleanor's sojourning in the vale of the wilderness had not reached far beyond entering her 19th year, she had long given evidence to those around that the Lord had implanted his fear in her heart. She was a constant attendant on the means of grace, and at times received with joy the "engrafted word," which made her "wise unto salvation." She was not of that number who wish to be heard for their “much speaking," as she seldom said more than could express…
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The Life And Ministry Of James Manser
On Saturday, the 25th of February last, James Manser fell asleep in Jesus. The subject of this notice was a native of Sussex, in England, and arrived in America in the year 1839, a young man of about 16 years of age. He was called from nature's darkness into God's marvellous light in early life, and was known to many in New York by his communications through the "Signs of the Times," during the years 1844 to 1850, and more recently as Editor of the "Zion's Pilgrim." The writer became acquainted with Mr. Manser about ten years ago, when they were, in the providence of God, introduced to each other in a somewhat remarkable manner. The circumstances are thus related by Mr. Manser, in his…
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The Life And Testimony Of Fanny Batley
To report with propriety the Lord's work on a human heart requires more than mortal powers or natural qualifications; and one attempting the work fears lest anything merely natural be called spiritual, or anything spiritual be called natural. It will readily be granted by the godly, that a line of distinction is not easily drawn at all times; but when anything appears proving itself to be the Lord's work, it will be as readily granted that "flesh and blood hath not revealed it." The subject of the following memoir was the daughter of a widow, a member of the church of Christ at Manchester. Her father also was a member, and died in the faith. Fanny was a Sunday scholar, and in her seventeenth year.…
