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The Life And Ministry Of Eli Page
One more standard bearer has been removed from the walls of Zion, one that will be greatly missed, not only by the Church at Mayfield, over which he has been pastor for thirty years, but also by many Churches in Sussex and other counties where his savory testimony to experimental religion has given him a place in the affections of hundreds of the Lord's family. His Conversion For the first nineteen years of his life, Eli Page followed the course of this world. He has described his youthful days as being rough and wild, reveling in the most filthy conversation, but when he lost his father by death, as he stood by his grave the arrow of conviction entered his soul. He often told his…
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The Life And Ministry Of William Romaine
William Romaine was born at Hartlepool, in the county of Durham, September 25th, 1714. The house in which he was born is still standing in the High Street, at the corner of St. Mary Street, and is at present used as a butcher's shop. It is encouraging to find that there are those in the county of Durham who so far revere his memory, and love the same truths that he proclaimed, as to erect, only a few years since, a tablet to his memory. Romaine's father was one of the French Protestants who took refuge in England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He settled at Hartlepool as a corn merchant, and appears to have prospered in business. He died at the…
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The Life And Testimony Of William Romaine
William Romaine, author of the "Life, Walk, and Triumph of Faith" (1714-1795), was born at Hartlepool, and was a member of an Huguenot family of refugees. He was a profound Hebrew scholar, and the brightest ornament of Oxford University during his career there. He was upwards of thirty years of age when the Lord was pleased to let him see and feel the plague of his own heart. He writes: "In despair of all things else, I betook myself to Jesus, and was most kindly received." He endured much persecution because of his discriminating ministry, which was sometimes exercised at his University, and more frequently at St. Dunstan's, Fleet Street, and other London churches where he was curate or lecturer. He died rector of St.…
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The Life And Legacy Of John Bunyan McCure
McCure omits any autobiographical information prior to the age of thirteen. At this age he relates how his mother suffered from 'rheumatic gout' for a period of twelve years necessitating his leaving home and seeking employment. Very early in his religious experience he became preoccupied with the Calvinistic doctrine of election: 'My trouble was now, whether I was one of the Lord's chosen'. McCure was converted under Richard Luckin, a paedobaptist, at Woodbridge Chapel, Clerkenwell. Shortly after his conversion he became convinced of believer's baptism, and was immersed by the Rev John Luscombe at Bethel Chapel, City Road, London. McCure preached his first sermon on Sunday 1 Mar 1840 and was married the same year at the Islington Church. He became a full-time preacher among…
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The Life And Death Of Joseph Hussey
Mr. Joseph Hussey, who is best known by his works entitled, "God’s Operations of Grace, but no Offers of Grace," and his "Glory of Christ Unveiled," was, in the latter part of his life, a most zealous opponent of Arminianism, in all its branches. In his dying moments, though in extreme pain, he was honored to bear some precious testimonies to the truths of discriminating grace, of which the following are a few. "One of the church asking him how his faith was exercised with regard to those doctrines he used to preach, he answered, ‘I am in the firm and full persuasion of all those truths I have preached, and die in the firm belief of them all.’ Many of the church being in…
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Charles Hemington: The Silver Wedding Of His Pastorate
Mr. Hemington has recently completed the twenty-fifth year of his pastorate at Devizes, and this, added to fifteen years as pastor of Corpus Christi Chapel, at Plymouth, and previous labours in various counties, makes a long ministerial life, which, through the Lord's blessing, has been very useful amongst the Churches. He was baptized when a young man, and united to a Gospel Church, the deacons of which soon came to the conclusion that the Lord designed him for the ministry; therefore one Lord's Day, when they had no minister, the senior deacon asked Mr. Hemington to read a chapter and make a few remarks upon it. This he was enabled to do, and spoke for about half-an-hour upon the prodigal son. Previous to this he…
