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The Life And Ministry Of P. B. Woodgate
Our brother Woodgate was born in the city of Norwich, and was blessed with a praying mother, who was a member at Princes-street Chapel and under the ministry of Mr. John Alexander. At the age of seven years he was led to feel his lost and ruined state by sin, and for seven years lived a rigid pharisee. He was, however, saved from its poisoning influence in a Baptist Chapel, in Kenninghall, Norfolk, where he was baptized and added to the Church. Afterward he removed to Deptford, Kent, and sat under the ministry of an aged servant of God, who preached in a chapel in Greenwich, formerly occupied by a company of French refugees. Our brother soon became established in the doctrines of grace and…
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The Life And Ministry Of John Axford
Mr. John Axford was born in or near Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, on the 28th of April, 1810. He married early, and came to New York in or about 1829 or 1830. He has told the writer of his call by grace and his early struggles for truth in New York. But memory is too treacherous to enter into particulars about these early times; suffice it to say, several ministers came from England then, and among them Thomas Reed, who preached here for several years. At that time there were several "old school Baptists" that preached the truth here well. The writer of this landed in New York on Sept. 30, 1850. On Oct. 1 he called upon Mr. Axford; who then kept a book store…
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Forty Years In The Wilderness Of America
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The Life And Ministry Of William Jackson
On May 30th, fell asleep, at the age of 72 years, William Jackson, for twenty years the indefatigable secretary of the Aged Pilgrims' Asylum, Hornsey Rise, and for nearly twenty previous years of the Camberwell Asylum, also more recently of those at Brighton and Stamford Hill. In William Jackson very many have lost a true friend, but not one an enemy. It might be thought singular by some that his interest and constant care were chiefly devoted to (I will not say divided by) those extremes of life—youth and old age—but in this was no incongruity. Both claim, for both need the peculiar gentleness and kind, sympathising spirit so abundantly seen in our friend. Awakened to Divine realities early in life, he was baptized and…
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The Life And Ministry Of W. H. Lee
Dear Brother Winters,—At your request I attempt to send you a few lines respecting the old and new man living in one house. I was born on November 24th, 1838, at Eastwood-end (at the only shop in the village), near March, Cambridgeshire. My parents were professing people. We usually went to March twice on Lord's-day to hear a Mr. Betts (Congregationalist). On the reversion of circumstances, my parents went to New South Wales (Australia), in 1849; they arrived there 8th July that year. As soon as possible my father went on shore to see about a house, as we had a good long voyage—17 weeks in the ship "Scotia." My dear mother was then expecting an increase (there were then living six-four boys and two…
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The Seventieth Birthday Of Thomas Stringer
Thousands of the Lord's living witnesses will be delighted to know that Mr. Thomas Stringer has reached his seventieth birthday, in the full vigour of a strong, healthy, cheerful, and useful manhood; and on the evening of his natal day, a host of friends surrounded him in his chapel in Trinity-street, Boro', and through the zealous and honourable exertions of James Lee, Esq., presented him with a purse of £100. We are thankful to God that there still remains in our Churches a people who have faith in, and fellowship with, the Gospel of Christ, the ordinances of the New Testament, and who practically sympathise with Paul in his exhortation to the Thessalonians: "We beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among yon, and…
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The Life And Ministry Of Thomas Stringer
Mr. Thomas Stringer is a man and a minister by himself. We have known multitudes of good and faithful ministers, but, for some things, we never did know any man at all like unto the present minister of Trinity chapel, in Southwark. We saw the late Mr. James Wells baptize Mr. Stringer in East-lane chapel, on the 20th of May, 1844; and when James was fairly in the water with Thomas, James cried out, "Nature has given me a pair of long arms, and when I get any in the water, I take good care that they go right under!" If nature had given James Wells a pair of long arms, what has nature given to Thomas Stringer? A body of large compass, and compact…
