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The Life And Ministry Of John Warburton
Within the pages of the Gospel Magazine have already appeared the names of men of loftiest human intellect and attainments, as well as of a high standard in their vindication of the doctrines of the full and free distinguishing and unmerited grace of our Triune Jehovah. But the subject of our present sketch is quite another order of being; instead of his being enabled to trace the origin of his present position of usefulness, more particularly among the tried and dejected of the Lord’s family, to a respectable birth and a good education, we see Him who has said, “He giveh not account of any of his matters,” going forth in his divine sovereignty, and calling into his vineyard and his service, a poor illiterate…
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The Life And Death Of David Denham
David Denham was a son of the above Thomas Denham, and was born April 12th, 1791. At the early age of eight years he was obliged to go out into the world as an errand boy, &c., and suffered great privations. He was afterwards placed apprentice to a glass cutter. When he was about eighteen years of age, he became a teacher in the Sunday School, belonging to the Rev. Rowland Hill’s Chapel, in Blackfriars Road. Subsequently, he was baptized, and commenced a preacher; first at Gainsford Street, Southwark, then at Horsell, in Surrey; from thence he removed to Reading, then to Bath: and after a while to Willow Street Chapel, Plymouth, where for a time he was exceedingly popular; insomuch that the preacher was…
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The Life And Ministry Of David Denham
With the present Number of the Gospel Magazine our readers are presented with a portrait of the Rev. David Denham, of Unicorn Yard Chapel, Tooley Street, for the use of which we are indebted to him, and take the present opportunity of acknowledging the favour; at the same time we respectfully solicit a similar privilege from such really Gospel ministers, either in or out of the Establishment, as may have their own copper-plates by them, or portraits from which our artists may copy. In allusion to the subject of our present portrait, it is perhaps needful to state, that in speaking of a living minister, at least some degree of delicacy is requisite, otherwise we should expose ourselves to the charge of flattery, which would…
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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…