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The Life And Ministry Of Hiram Maycock
In compliance with the request of many friends, I herewith send a few details with respect to the life, call by grace, and ministerial career of our late friend and brother, H. G. Maycock. He was born in India, near Delhi, on December 3rd, 1823 (his father being of the military profession), and brought to this country when about fifteen months old. At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed to his uncle (Mr. Swift, an extensive boot and shoe manufacturer, who was a rigid Roman Catholic, who had a form of daily devotion observed in his family, tracts read from "The Garden of the Soul," "Fenelon's Sermons,'' "The Writings of Thomas a Kempis," and other Roman Catholic works). This acted, for the time being,…
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The Life And Ministry Of John Brand
Our departed brother was born at Thundersley, Essex, on August 8, 1843. While the influence and training of his godly parents (to which he often alluded) was not lost upon him, he soon gave evidence that he was born in sin, though presented from going to the excess of wickedness to which many have gone. From a child there were exercises of mind concerning his state as a sinner before God. The work of grace in his soul was of gradual development. He could never point to any special time or place where it was begun, and this was, at times, all through life a trial to him. He has said that very often, when in the company of other young men, the thought would…
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The Life And Ministry Of Harry Chilvers
When asked by the beloved editor of our Magazine to send an account of the Lord's dealings with me in providence and grace, the text came to my mind, "What is man that Thou art mindful of him? By nature, a poor sinful wretch, living without hope and God in the world: all his powers and passions, like so many weapons, directed against the Majesty of heaven.'' Dreadful state! Awful infatuation! Yet such are the objects of the eternal love of our God by nature. How wonderful, then, is that grace which brings a sinner from darkness to His most marvelous light, enlightening the understanding, turning the feet to Zion's hill, and bringing them to behold Christ as the Chiefest among ten thousand, and the…
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The Life And Ministry Of H. D. Sandell
The following is a brief account of the origin, &c., of Mr. H. D. Sandell, pastor of Ebenezer, Fulham, whose call by grace and to the ministry has recently been given in our pages. Our brother says:— "I was born on April 22nd, 1848, in the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark. My parents were then rather reduced in circumstances, having failed in business only a little while before, and being the youngest of six my prospects were not very bright. However, I was put to a good school in the Borough-road, where no doubt I should have remained for several years, had it not been for an unpleasant event that suddenly terminated my attendance there. An under-master in charge of the school had a great…
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The Life And Ministry Of G. Diffey
For the benefit of our readers in Devonshire, Wales, America, and Australia, we give a portrait and brief sketch of our old friend Mr. Diffey, late pastor of Poulner, near Ringwood, Hants. Deceased was born near the town of Corfe Castle, Dorset, in 1820; was brought up among the "Independents," where he attended the Bible-class; and on the subject of baptism being discussed, he saw plainly infant sprinkling to be unscriptural, and believers' baptism by immersion to be according to New Testament order. Before entering on the pastorate at Poulner (which was open communion), he stated his views; and the friends were formed into a New Testament Church, and those who had not been baptized either went through the ordinance or left. He was a…
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The Life And Ministry Of E. M. Bacon
Dear Brother,—The year 1858, on August 23rd, in the ancient city of Coventry, was the time and place fixed by the Great First Cause of all events for ushering into this world—beautiful in its created glory, though blighted by Adam's sin—of the one who has been spared to write this. I was left fatherless when nearly eight years of age, but was tenderly loved and cared for by a godly mother, who leaning hard upon the God of the fatherless and widow, was enabled to struggle on amidst difficulties in educating and starting her boy in life. I was duly apprenticed to learn the trade of printing and stationery. My parents and family belonging to the Church of England, I was, in babyhood's days christened,…
