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The Life And Testimony Of H. Scandrett
Some of the readers of the "Gospel Standard" knew and heard the late Mr. Scandrett, who was for many years the beloved pastor of the church of Christ at Godmanchester, and to them it will be interesting to learn a few particulars of the experience and death of his aged widow, who departed this life on the 25th of August, 1858, aged 91 years. Her daughter has furnished me with a short account of her dear mother, and I think I cannot do better than send it to you almost in her own words. At the same time I would bear testimony to her truly Christian walk and conversation ever since I knew her and have had the privilege of visiting her, embracing a period…
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The Answered Prayers Of A Loving Mother
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The Life And Ministry Of William Scandrett
We are favored with a copy of a neat pamphlet just written by our Christian and ministerial brother, Thomas Jones, of Dacre Park, Blackheath, entitled—“Jubilee Jottings. A Retrospect of the Past. An Ebenezer of Praise. Passages in the History of the Baptist Church at Sible Hedingham, Essex.” The profits of this little fourpenny book (if there be any) are to be given to the Sunday-school connected with the chapel; and as it is a most pleasing and instructive narrative, we expect it will circulate far and near. The author has given us full permission to use as much of it as we can; we therefore connect with our report of the jubilee services a few extracts from the church’s history. The following paragraphs carry us…
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The Answered Prayers Of A Loving Father
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The Life And Testimony Of Hannah Mills
My dear daughter, the late Mrs. Isaac Mills, was born January 25th, 1842, and died May 14th, 1867, in her 26th year. At the time of her birth, I was in great temporal straits; so that with family cares and preaching cares I was overwhelmed. My soul chose strangling and death rather than life. My soul being full of heaviness, I cried, “O Lord, be pleased to let me die. I wish to die." While I was in this state of mind, it was said by a relative, "This child ought to be named Hannah." It was mentioned to my wife, and she agreed to it. Having a concordance, I soon found the name with its meaning: "Gracious, merciful, or taking rest." At this my…
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The Life And Ministry Of Cornelius Cowley
He grew up strong in mind and body, until about ten years of age, when he had a very severe attack of rheumatic gout in his feet, which very much reduced him, and from which he suffered more or less throughout his life. After this, he had a very narrow escape from the bursting of a gun, which he let off loaded with gravel stones, when sent by a farmer to drive the birds from a field newly-sown with corn. When between the age of thirteen and fourteen he was apprenticed to the boot and shoe business for seven years. He was very quick in learning his trade; but at the age of seventeen, feeling himself grown up quite a man, he did not like…
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The Life And Testimony Of Mary Ann Topp
The Lord was pleased to convince her of her lost estate many years ago, and laid the weight and power of eternal things upon her conscience in the days of her youth; and though she tried to banish all thoughts of God and eternity, by getting into company with her young acquaintances and going to many places of amusement, still the solemn realities of an eternal state would follow her; so that she often retired in secret and bent her knees before the Lord and wept over her sins. She also began to feel a great desire to read her Bible, and the Lord often shined upon it, so that she felt it dearer unto her than thousands of gold and silver. There were no…
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The Life And Testimony Of Anne Topp
My dear Friend, As the Lord has taken away from me my very dear wife and companion in this lower world, and as the blessed Lord has, in infinite mercy, appeared for her precious soul during her long illness and in her dying moments, and sealed its blessed effects upon my heart, I have felt a longing, day after day, to drop my mortal body, to depart from this world of sorrow, to dwell with Christ, which is far better. But the Lord hath spoken these words to my heart: "Thou shalt not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord;" "Do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that it may give light to all…
