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The Life And Ministry Of Robert Pym
The subject of the following brief memoir was one who lived much alone. He sought retirement, often saying to his friends that he did not wish to become a public character. But during the last few months of his life the Lord so powerfully blessed him that he repeatedly spoke and wrote to those friends who were favoured to have intercourse with him, requesting them to call upon the Lord's people to praise him for the great favours with which he supported and comforted him on a dying-bed. Nothing could be more repulsive to his feelings than the idea of exalting a "hell-deserving sinner," (as he frequently called himself,) but if the riches of grace could be magnified, and any of the Lord's tried family…
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The Life And Death Of William Tiptaft
A warm and general desire having been expressed by many who knew and loved my late dear friend and brother, William Tiptaft, that a little Memoir of him should be published, embracing a longer account of his life and death than could be comprised within the limits of an Obituary, and the execution of that task devolving by their wishes on me, I find myself placed in a strait. On the one hand, I feel that I must not and cannot decline the labour of love thus allotted me, especially as it falls in with my own wishes that some more full and abiding memorial should be raised of one so much esteemed and greatly beloved by the living family of God than our scanty…
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The Life And Ministry Of Henry Watmuff
I believe many friends would like to see a little account of that dear man of God, the late Mr. Watmuff in the "Gospel Standard." I have heard that it was thirty-five years since the Lord called him by his grace, and ever since then he has made him an example for the family of God to walk by, for he has taken up his cross daily to follow the Lord through evil report and good report. He has often denied himself common necessaries, as the friends that knew him will bear testimony, that he might give to the poor family of God. He used to go from house to house to visit the sick and the poor, and not say unto them, "Be ye…
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The Life And Ministry Of William Collins
On Nov. 22nd, 1860, at Maldon, Essex, fell asleep in Jesus, William Collins, 53 years a minister of the gospel, and in the 91st year of his age. The following letter, written to a friend about two years ago, will supply a few particulars of the work of grace on his heart, and the subsequent acts of sovereign mercy, love, and kindness to him. “Respected Friend in Christ, our great Lord God and everlasting All,—The above salutation is inferred from your testimony many years ago, 'He that hath delivered doth deliver, in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us.' "It is now close upon 89 years since the Lord saw fit that such a worm should be born into the world, to show…
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The Life And Death Of William Crowther
So said one of the ancients in his counsel, not to do anything, to choose anything, to write anything, with any other motive than to glorify our God and Saviour Jesus Christ. Oh, what a difficult virtue is this when it cometh to the practice, to pass by, and neglect all glistening lures of the flesh and in the creature, and to know no man for any such carnal comparison, but, as he is seen and known as a new creature in Christ. When a man is seen and known to be in Christ, and as having Christ formed in his whole new and inner man as his only hope of glory, and as the only springing motive of his life, to magnify and to…
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The Life And Testimony Of William Crowther
A few Lord's-days since, Mr. William Crowther, of Gomersal, Leeds, preached to his beloved flock at Lockwood the forty-third anniversary sermon, commemorative of his being brought, by the grace of God, into the fellowship of the Gospel, and into a happy association with the Church of Christ upon earth. Not simply in communion with any of those modern and fashionable Churches, where the doctrines and ordinances given to us by Christ and His apostles are increasingly slighted; not merely as a silent and almost useless member, but, Mr. William Crowther was, by the Spirit of God, constrained to unite himself with that section of the family of God who most unflinchingly adhere to those New Testament laws and ordinances which distinguish the Strict and Particular…
