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The Life And Ministry Of Edward Blackstock
Earthen Vessel 1852: Notice Of Edward Blackstock’s Death The Late Mr. Blackstock Another servant of Christ is gone home. In the early part of September, 1852, Mr. Blackstock departed this life. He had, for some few years past, preached Christ, and salvation by him, in Salem Chapel, not far from Fitzroy Market; and there he quietly finished his course. Many that have heard him to profit, and loved him for his work’s sake, regretted his apparent lack of decision for one of the leading ordinances in the New Testament church. As regards the essentials of gospel principle, and divine experience, he was unflinching. He preached, he lived, he rejoiced, he died in the faith. We are informed by brother Edgecombe (pastor of the Baptist church,…
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The Life And Ministry Of James John West
John E. Hazelton, Hold Fast: James J. West, M.A., Rector of Winchelsea, was a bold and faithful servant of God. For years he preached a monthly sermon on Tuesday evenings at St. Barnabas Church, King's Square, Goswell Road, where many a poor sinner was met with by the God of all grace and the Lord's family were built up in their most holy faith. Earthen Vessel 1872: The Late Rector Of Winchelsea The Rev. J. J. West, A. M. This singularly truthful and thoroughly-experimental preacher, died August 7, 1872, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. He was forty-one years Rector of Winchelsea—which living is worth about £300 per annum. We cannot yet furnish particulars of his death; but our readers shall have all the…
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Jehovah’s Sovereignty And The Believer’s Security
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The Life And Ministry Of Alfred Hewlett
We now come to two ministers of the Gospel who loved and preached the truths dear to the hearts of those who have been named, and who, in their day and generation, exercised a wide influence for good, effectually disproving the libel that the doctrines of grace produce supineness and indifference to the needs of men. Alfred Hewlett, D. D. (1804-1885), was during the greater part of his long life Vicar of Astley, near Manchester. It was a neglected place when he first went there; brutal sports and practical heathenism abounded. In the course of time schools were erected and institutions formed for the benefit of the people; he founded and edited "The Christian Cottagers' Magazine," and gave lectures on temperance and other topics, besides…
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Vessels Of Wrath And Vessels Of Mercy
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The Life And Death Of William Krause
Within the past month, the Church of God in Ireland has sustained a heavy loss by the removal from earth to heaven of one of the ablest ministers of the New Testament--the Rev. W. H. Krause, Chaplain of Bethesda, Dublin. On Sunday, the 22nd of February, Mr. Krause preached twice—the morning service from 2 Cor. 3:18. In the evening he preached from Gal. 5:25. At the close of his sermon, after warning the professing people of God against putting themselves under a course of ritual observances to give peace to the conscience, he asked, "What is the reason that, upon a sick bed, when the soul is about to be launched into another world, there is sometimes such an anxious inquiry about the sacrament of…
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The Life And Ministry Of William Krause
The eight or nine volumes of sermons and lectures by William H. Krause, M.A. (1797-1852), of Dublin, published after his death, are most valuable. They are models of expository preaching and there is running through them a deep and rich vein of spiritual experience. Would that there were more such preaching to-day and that his books could be read and re-read. A somewhat extended reference to him and the sphere of his work must be given. God's ways are unsearchable: He takes up a useless worldling out of the mass of his fellow-sinners, arrests him in his course towards "the lion's den," and turns him suddenly into the footsteps of the flock. "It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps;" and, when…
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The Life And Ministry Of John Grace
His Ministry; His Death; His Funeral; And Funeral Sermons By Mr. George Abrahams It seems but the other evening we sat in Mr. Grace's "Tabernacle" at Brighton, and tried hard to hear him deliver one of his week-evening discourses. That was in the early part of the present year; and he then appeared in health of body, full of vigour, empowered by the Spirit, and truly happy in feeding the flock he so dearly loved. "Sacred spot!" we silently whispered to ourselves. "Happy man of God! Preserved, honoured, and rich in his anticipations of eternal glory!" It never once entered our mind that in a few weeks from that time his fine-made frame would be silent in the grave, and his spirit amid the millions…
