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The Life And Ministry Of F. G. Burgess
Dear Mr. Editor,—I have been born twice; firstly, in the village of Tilehurst, near the Town of Reading, Berks. My life has been a chequered one. At the age of eleven I found my dear mother sitting in her chair dead. Her sudden exit was probably caused by heart-disease. Shortly after this, upon my father's remarriage, I left the parental roof, and have from that time been getting the bread that perisheth by the sweat of my brow. After spending a year or two in different places in the country, I went to the Metropolis, where for several years I was left to plunge into sin. My only wonder is that God did not banish such a Wretch from the earth. Returning to the Town…
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The Life And Ministry Of Charles Guy
Our brother, Mr. I. C. Johnson, informs me you have expressed a wish to be furnished with a few details concerning my unworthy self, for use in our denominational magazine. Those details will be mainly of such circumstances in my life as are particularly connected with the particular and special mercy of a covenant God. One in looking back upon all the past, feels to have more occasion than others to gratefully hymn:— “O to grace how great a debtor, Daily I'm constrained to be." On the 19th of July, 1857, my eyes first saw the light of day in the old town of the beautiful Sussex sea-side resort, Eastbourne. Several times during my boyhood days was I brought in imminent danger of losing my…
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The Life And Ministry Of Charles Masterson
It is with a feeling of pain that those words, "the late," are penned. It is, alas! too true. Charles Masterson is no more. Stay! that is not exactly correct. Charles Masterson is alive for evermore. The goodly tabernacle has been suddenly shaken down, but its fall has not ruined its late resident. Absent from the body, he is present with the Lord. Our beloved brother began his natural life in the parish of Laxfield Suffolk, in the year 1846. He was, therefore, still in the prime of life when stricken with his last illness, being only forty-seven when the Master called him home. The Lord had need of him. How many of God's ministering servants have need to bless Him for godly parents. The…
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The Poetic Testimony Of Thomas Poock
Dear friend in the gospel, you ask for a line, The which I will send you as I can get time; And this is the subject on which I shall dwell— To write of my Jesus, who sav'd me from hell. I often am led of my history to think; And while I remember, I shudder and shrink. My birth was all sin, my nature all foul, It makes me oft weep, ofttimes do I howl. In childhood I was of my mother bereft; Ah! then to the mercy of man was I left; But man, he forsook me, regardless of claim, A helpless, a friendless outcast I became. The workhouse receiv'd me, and there was I found By an uncle, who travell'd many miles…
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The Life And Ministry Of Thomas Poock
The late Mr. Thomas Poock was born at Brompton, near Chatham, Kent, on the 21st Feb., 1797. His early life was "full of striking incidents and marvelous activeness." Bereaved of his mother in early childhood, he became a poor, helpless, friendless outcast consequently was placed in a very trying position. An uncle, who lived many miles away, hearing of it, fetched him, and took him to his own home and kindly cared for him for a short time. Soon he had to go to London, where, at the hands of a mother-in-law, he met with very cruel treatment. Before he was eleven years old he was sent to sea, where, on a man-of-war he acted as a cabin-boy for about three years. There He, in…
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The Life And Ministry Of A. E. Realff
In the afternoon of January 20, Mr. J. Box most kindly supplied for W. J. Styles, who was incapacitated through illness. Proceeding to explain in a most lucid and affectionate manner the nature of a Gospel Church: its privileges and duties, our dear brother took for his text Dan. 10:21, first clause. Very sweetly and encouragingly was he led into the subject, and a goodly company of appreciative hearers listened to his instructive and admonitory utterances. The schoolroom was well filled at the tea. At the evening meeting, Mr. E. Mitchell, the former pastor, asked the usual questions, Mr. Realff’s answers to which will be found below. He then called upon Mr. J. Billing to relate the providential circumstances that led to the present settlement,…
