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The Life And Ministry Of Walter Ranson
Dear Brother,—By your request, I send you a brief sketch of my life. I was born on August 31, 1859, in the parish of Hitcham, in the county of Suffolk. I was blessed with a godly mother, my father was the reverse. But the Lord placed him in the furnace of affliction, and I believe made it a blessing to him. They are both gone home, and have left me with one sister. It appeared I had convictions when very young. I remember once being troubled about sin when attending school, so as to be forced to pray. I never could enjoy myself in the ways of sin as some appear to. There was an aching void the world could never fill; this went on…
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The Life And Ministry Of William Flack
Our readers, after the various references of late to the state of health of the universally-esteemed pastor of Salem, Wilton-square, were not taken by surprise on reading the brief announcement in the August number of Earthen Vessel and Gospel Herald, that Mr. William Flack had "Crossed the narrow sea." This took place on July 17, 1895, in the 80th year of his age. Our departed brother's life was a very eventful one, and it would well repay the reader to get a copy of "The Christian Pathway," if it is to be had, and peruse the same. All we can do is to supply a brief summary, and commence by giving his birth-place and origin. William Flack was born in the town of Ware, Herts.,…
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The Life And Ministry Of James Clark
My Dear Brother,—In acceding to your earnest request, I herewith send you a brief account of the Lord's dealings with me. I was born into this world of sin and sorrow on April 27th, 1841, in the town of Tring, in Hertfordshire. It was my privilege, from my earliest days, to be brought up under the influence of a godly home, my parents being members and my father a deacon of the Church in Frogmore-street, in the above town. I was sent very early to the Sunday-school there. As far back as I can recollect, I was the subject of very solemn and serious impressions, which often led me to cry unto God in secret to save and deliver me from my sins. But though…
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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…
