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The Life And Testimony Of Mary Jane Topp
My dear Friend,—I am thankful to find by your letters that any part of my dear mother's last days on earth has been blessed to your soul; and as you seem desirous that I should be enabled still to send forth the marvellous dealings of the Lord with his tried and afflicted family, I feel a desire in my heart that a few lines should be written on my dear sister's last days on earth, that it may be a warning to some of the Lord's weaklings, and a comfort to others that are full of doubts and fears how it will be with them in their last moments. Though I feel utterly unworthy, and would be the last, to write or speak in his…
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The Life And Testimony Of Elizabeth Topp
For many years past it was the desire of deceased that her experience should be written for the glory of God and for the comfort of his tried and afflicted family, she often repeating these words, "For why should the wonders of the Lord be lost, and forgotten in unthankfulness?” I have often, by her bedside, heard her speak of the path that she had travelled for fifty years in this vale of tears, and many times found her words very weighty and powerful, so that I have often felt my soul drawn heavenwards, and the blessed things of eternity have sweetly employed my mind for days afterwards.
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The Life And Ministry Of Thomas Stringer
It was with feelings of great disappointment and regret that we were debarred from paying our last tribute of sincere affection to the memory of our dear friend and brother in Christ, Thomas Stringer, in not attending his funeral on March 28th, as we were then engaged in Oxfordshire. Although the late Thomas Stringer could not boast of either learning, riches, or worldly fame, he could boast of what Christ had done in the salvation of his immortal soul, and of the value of rich, free and sovereign grace. In the person and deportment of Mr. Stringer there a manliness and true nobleness, descriptive of a fine old English Christian gentleman. Of course, like all men who know themselves, he could not glory in perfection…
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The Life And Testimony Of Elizabeth Williams
Mr. Huntington, in a letter to a spiritual friend, who before he was born again of the Spirit had, by the Lord's mercy, been singularly preserved from outward evil, thus writes: "My friend, thou hast been saved from a more refined wickedness." Never were truer words, or more descriptive of Elizabeth Williams, than those of this immortal and faithful servant of Christ. Infirmities and afflictions of body and soul have delayed this humble account of one so dearly loved both in nature and grace. With her own words, "Let Jesus have all the glory," and a secret cry to God the Spirit that he would, with his remembering power, dictate every word, he desires to cast this humble mite into the treasury of God, hoping…
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The Life And Testimony Of William Boorne
The subject of this memoir was born at Deptford, January 1st, 1794. His father and mother were both members of a Particular Baptist church, at Keppell Street, Bedford Square, under the pastoral care of Mr. Martin. His mother died when he was nine months old, but his grandmother often took care of him. She was a strict Churchwoman, and taught her grandson hymns and prayers, which he frequently repeated. He had early natural convictions that he was wicked, and was taught that he must be good to meet the favour of God. As he grew older, his father was accustomed to take him occasionally on a Lord's day to Keppell Street. When about twelve years of age, he heard Mr. Martin from Col. 1:27: "Christ…
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The Life And Testimony Of Edward Vorley
Edward Vorley entered into an eternal state of glory on Lord's Day morning, March 11, 1838, in the 73rd year of his age. He was for upwards of 31 years the faithful and much-beloved pastor of the Particular Baptist church assembling at Ebenezer chapel, St. Peter's Lane. Leicester, where, we may truly say, without ostentation, he had been a very useful instrument, in the Lord's hand, of much good, both in the forming and establishing of this part of the Lord's vineyard, and where he has continually laboured with success, the Lord owning and blessing the word spoken by him to the comforting, edifying, and building up of his family. He was favoured with a measure of bodily health and strength which is unusual at…
