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The Life And Ministry Of Robert Mutimer
I was born at Wilby, Suffolk, on December 23rd, 1861. When I was quite young my parents used to take me to Laxfield Baptist Chapel, a distance of three miles. On Sunday evenings I stayed at home, and read the Bible with my parents. I greatly disliked the restraint I was under, and longed for the time to come when I could get away from parental control. At twelve years of age I was apprenticed away from home. The fruits of the seeds of wickedness in my heart soon began to show themselves in my using oaths, and speaking of the Word of God in a most contemptuous manner; also in enmity to God's house, His people, and my father's prayers. I readily imbibed and…
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The Life And Ministry Of W. A. Dale
My natural birth took place on July 29th, 1870, at Rett's Grove, Wandsworth Road, Clapham Common, where my parents, who were members of the Church at Courland Grove, then under the pastoral care of the late Mr. Ponsford, at that time resided. The ill-health of my father, together with an epidemic of small-pox, to which my parents feared I might fall a victim, led them to remove to Tring in November, 1871, where, in the Spring of 1872, the Lord was pleased to take my father to his heavenly home. At six years of age I entered the Akeman Street Sunday School, where I remained as a scholar until January 6th, 1889, on which date I was presented with a Bible, by the superintendent, on…
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The Life And Ministry Of W. H. Rose
In complying with the request of the Editor for a sketch of my career, I would be guided by the judicious remark of John Foster, in his Essay entitled, "On a Man's Writing Memoirs of Himself:" "The materials of any value that all past life can supply to a recording pen would be reduced by a discerning selection to a very small and modest amount." I was born at Lampton, Hounslow. My earliest recollections of a religious character cluster around the little sanctuary, "Zoar," in Staines-road. It was there that thanks were given for my first, and prayers were offered for my second birth. Mrs. Brown taught me to spell out "God is Love," with block letters in a frame. Mr. Jeffs, as Superintendent, discovered…
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The Life And Ministry Of Walter Turner
Walter Samuel Turner was born at Gestingthorpe, Essex, on January 13th, 1842. He was not favoured with any spiritual advantages at home, but God, who had chose him in eternity, began to deal with him in grace when was he quite young. We are unable to give any detailed account of his early experiences, nor are we sure by whom, when, or where he was baptised, but at about 20 years of age we find him a member of the Strict Baptist Church worshipping at Pentside Chapel, Dover. To this town he had been lead in the province of God to improve himself in his secular trade—that of a shoemaker. Mr. Potter was the pastor of the Church at the time our brother united with…
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The Life And Ministry Of Joseph Walker
We are largely indebted to Mr. Samuel Hull, the senior Deacon of "Providence" Baptist Chapel, Northampton, for the following particulars relating to the late Mr. Joseph Walker, whose excellent portrait accompanies this month's issue. Mr. Walker was born at Leicester in 1851. The son of godly parents, he was regular in his attendance on the means of grace from childhood, but manifested no serious concern for his own state until he reached manhood. The Lord gradually laid Divine things with power upon his mind, by which he was made to pray for a personal interest in Christ. In the course of time it became manifest to those with whom he came in contact that the Lord had begun a saving work in his soul. He…
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The Life And Ministry Of John Snow
Dear brother in the faith,—According to your request, a few details of the lovingkindness of the Lord are forwarded, which I pray He will be pleased to bless to some seeker or servant of God. I was born on August 15, 1867, at Hull; but was so soon removed in God's providence that my furthest recollections carry me to a time when, travelling from place to place, seeing the pleasures of sin in theatrical life, it was desired by one that I should go with him and receive training to appear on the stage; but the all-wise God over-ruled this. All thanks to my God for deliverance from a career so near the confines of hell. After settling in Sheffield, I attended St. James's Church…
