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The Life And Ministry Of A. E. Realff
In the afternoon of January 20, Mr. J. Box most kindly supplied for W. J. Styles, who was incapacitated through illness. Proceeding to explain in a most lucid and affectionate manner the nature of a Gospel Church: its privileges and duties, our dear brother took for his text Dan. 10:21, first clause. Very sweetly and encouragingly was he led into the subject, and a goodly company of appreciative hearers listened to his instructive and admonitory utterances. The schoolroom was well filled at the tea. At the evening meeting, Mr. E. Mitchell, the former pastor, asked the usual questions, Mr. Realff’s answers to which will be found below. He then called upon Mr. J. Billing to relate the providential circumstances that led to the present settlement,…
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The Life And Death Of William Hazelton
The severe and protracted sufferings of our beloved brother, William Hazelton, were brought to a close by death on Lord's-day evening, January 11th, at 8.20, in the National Hospital, Queen's Square, Bloomsbury, London. It will be remembered by many of our readers who attended the Annual Meetings of the Suffolk and Norfolk Particular Baptist Association, on June 6th, 1888, at Laxfeld, that our brother Hazelton was urged to preach the evening sermon on that occasion, and after much hesitancy he yielded to the call, and preached (what proved to be his last sermon) from the words, "I will work, and who shall let it?" (Isa. 43:18), and which he divided as follows:—I. The text in relation to the Speaker Himself. II. Its relation to His…
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The Life And Ministry Of William Hazelton
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The Life And Ministry Of William Hazelton
In taking up the pen to write the memoir of a good man, one feels the deep need of superintending grace, so that the right words may be used. There is, at the same time, the consciousness that peculiar mental qualifications are necessary to the right performance of such a task. Whatever qualification the present writer may lack, he feels he can plead the important one of intimate acquaintance. During the whole of Mr. Hazelton's pastorate at Lewisham, and up to the time of his death, our dear brother and the present writer were on the terms of closest friendship, and it is a joy, while writing, to be able to say that the friendship was never disturbed by a single misunderstanding.
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The Life And Death Of William Hazelton
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The Life And Ministry Of Charles Cornwell
Mr. C. Cornwell, the pastor of Brixton Tabernacle, was born in Cambridgeshire in 1833, and was sent to a day-school, and afterwards to a school connected with the National Church at Horningsea, but he left early. Some few years afterwards he resided at Waterbeach, and attended the Baptist Sunday School when Mr. C. H. Spurgeon first commenced his labours there. Mr. Cornwell was called by grace when about seventeen or eighteen years of age. He was brought up in his early days to farming, but afterwards became a carpenter, at which trade he worked. When thirty years of age, he began to preach the Gospel, but, sadly lamenting his lack of education, devoted much time to self-improvement, and reading soon became a pleasure to him.…
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The Life And Ministry Of Benjamin Northfield
It was on Dec. 27th, 1859, that I first saw the light of this world, my native place being Potton, Bedfordshire. I cannot remember the time when I had not serious reflections of my state as a guilty sinner before God. The death of my dear mother took place when I was only about five years old. A year or two after a brother and sister died. These events had a solemn impression upon my mind, and my convictions as a needy, helpless sinner were thereby deepened. I spent my time much as other children and young people, mixing up with them, but apparently with less degree of satisfaction; for the thought of eternity, and as to the safety of my soul in prospect of…
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The First Strict And Particular Baptist Church In Lincoln
On Friday evening, June 26, 1874, a Church of Baptized Believers was formed in Newland Street, meeting in Lincoln, and Mr. W. Simpson was called to and publicly recognized as the pastor. The order of service is here given, it may be useful to others: W. Simpson read and they sung a hymn. C. W. Banks read the Word, pleased for the Lord’s blessing, and gave short addresses on Paul’s words, “God is not the Author of confusion but of peace, as in all the Churches of the saints.” Two brethren then gave lengthened accounts of their experience, faith, and of God’s dealings with them, in bringing them into fellowship of the Gospel. All the friends who desired to be united together expressed their desire…
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The Life And Ministry Of William Simpson
