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The Life And Ministry Of Frederick Silver
“Hold Fast”, John E. Hazelton: ”Frederick Silver (1781-1864) was trained for the bar, but God called him to proclaim the unsearchable riches of Christ, and he became pastor of Bethlehem Chapel, Richmond, and afterwards of Jewry Street Chapel, Aldgate, where a week-night sermon was for many years delivered by the leading Huntingtonian ministers of the day. He was a "son of consolation" to many, and delighting to direct the inquirer and to minister to the weary, he was powerful in his defence of truth, as the book entitled "The Sword of the Spirit" testifies.” The Earthen Vessel 1864, Page 316 “Since our last issue, Mr. Frederick Silver, so many years a minister of the Gospel, has been called home. He had been laid aside about…
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The Life And Ministry Of George Godden
Our dear friend and brother, George Harry Godden, for seventeen years minister of Corpus Christi Chapel, Stonehouse, near Plymouth, Devon, fell asleep in Jesus, April 3rd, at a quarter to eight p.m., and was interred in the family vault in the New Cemetery, Plymouth, on the Thursday following, at noon, attended by numbers of his sorrowing friends and former hearers. He was valiant for the truth, delighting in a full, free, and finished salvation, as revealing the electing love of Jehovah the Father, the Headship of the co-equal Son, and the Person and ministry of God the Holy Ghost. He sought to abase the creature, and lift up the Saviour as all in all. Thus his trumpet gave no uncertain sound, for he was determined…
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The Life And Testimony Of William Tyndale
William Tyndale, a faithful minister and martyr of Christ, memorable for having made the first translation of the Bible that was printed in English, was born on the borders of Wales, some time before the year 1500. He was brought up from a child in the University of Oxford, where, as he advanced in years, he increased in the knowledge of the learned languages. He applied himself especially to the study of the Holy Scriptures, which he read with a meek and humble spirit, and with prayer for heavenly wisdom to direct him. Nor was he satisfied to hide under a bushel the light which he received from them; for, while he was living in Magdalen Hall, he read private lectures in divinity to some…
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The Life And Testimony Of Samuel Walker
The memory of Samuel Abraham Walker, M.A., Rector of St. Mary-le-Port, Bristol, and founder of the Clifton Conference in 1862, is gratefully cherished He was a man of spiritual force, a doughty champion on Protestant platforms and never ashamed of the creature-humbling doctrines of grace. His hand and his heart were ever with those who were one with him in Christ. The Clifton Conference continues, under the Rev. James Ormiston, as the October annual gathering of many of the Lord's people of various sections of the one Church who assemble in the name of "the chiefest among ten thousand and the altogether lovely."' A similar Conference was held at Aylestone, Leicestershire, under the auspices of George W. Straton, M.A., the rector; but upon his death…
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An Appraisal Of My Pastoral Ministry For The Year 1858
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The Life And Testimony Of John Bunyan
John Bunyan was born at Elstow, near Bedford, in 1628. His father was a tinker, and, concerning his humble birth, Bunyan says, "My descent was of a low and inconsiderable generation, my father's house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all the families of the land.'' But, poor as his parents were, they did not neglect sending their children to school, for which John felt very grateful in after years. At a very early age he acquired the sad habit of swearing, for which he became notorious, but he proved "the way of transgressors to be hard! for, after spending a day thus in sin, he was scared and terrified at night with fearful dreams, and apprehensions of devils and…
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Bi-Centenary Of The Death Of John Bunyan
Much of the liberty we now enjoy as Christians is owing to two great historical facts which transpired in the years 1588 and 1688—the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and the accession of the Protestant dynasty to the throne of England. We, however, dare not withhold at the present moment stating our firm conviction that the iron hand of ROMANISM WILL YET AGAIN PREVAIL and reign in this country, at least for a limited period. It is not difficult to imagine what the state of England would be if the sacred Scriptures were as rigidly forbidden to be possessed and read by the public as they were in the Middle Ages. God defend the right. JOHN BUNYAN'S DEATH, AUGUST 12TH, 1688. We owe a great…
