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The Life And Ministry Of Joseph Chamberlain
“Among the ministerial friends of [William] Huntington were Isaac Beeman (1766-1838), who for twenty years preached at Cranbrook and occasionally in London, and Joseph Chamberlain (1778-1856), of Salem Chapel, Leicester. From an early age Chamberlain was under concern respecting his eternal state, and when in spiritual distress he met with some of Huntington's works and derived abiding benefit from them; subsequently he heard him in London and Leicester, and was brought into gospel peace and liberty. After Huntington's death he was strongly solicited to succeed him, but he could not be persuaded to leave his people at Leicester. For many years he visited congregations at Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Bottesford, Lakenheath, Littleport, Downham, and other places, these meetings continuing for the most part to the present…
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The Life And Ministry Of F. Beedel
My Beloved Brother Banks,—Grace and peace be multiplied unto you, and to all the dear people of God with you, who are held in the embrace of everlasting and unchangeable love, covered and sheltered by the blood of the everlasting covenant, called and regenerated and anointed with the anointing which teacheth all things and is true, and even as it hath taught you so ye shall abide in Him. How sacred is the relationship in which Zion stands to her God in covenant, and how highly favoured to have a name and a place within her gates, and all who feel this will ever pray, "Peace be within thy walls," &c. (Psa. 122:6-9). My dear Brother, to be a doorkeeper here, or a hewer of…
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The Life And Ministry Of P. B. Woodgate
Our brother Woodgate was born in the city of Norwich, and was blessed with a praying mother, who was a member at Princes-street Chapel and under the ministry of Mr. John Alexander. At the age of seven years he was led to feel his lost and ruined state by sin, and for seven years lived a rigid pharisee. He was, however, saved from its poisoning influence in a Baptist Chapel, in Kenninghall, Norfolk, where he was baptized and added to the Church. Afterward he removed to Deptford, Kent, and sat under the ministry of an aged servant of God, who preached in a chapel in Greenwich, formerly occupied by a company of French refugees. Our brother soon became established in the doctrines of grace and…
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The Life And Ministry Of John Axford
Mr. John Axford was born in or near Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, on the 28th of April, 1810. He married early, and came to New York in or about 1829 or 1830. He has told the writer of his call by grace and his early struggles for truth in New York. But memory is too treacherous to enter into particulars about these early times; suffice it to say, several ministers came from England then, and among them Thomas Reed, who preached here for several years. At that time there were several "old school Baptists" that preached the truth here well. The writer of this landed in New York on Sept. 30, 1850. On Oct. 1 he called upon Mr. Axford; who then kept a book store…
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The Life And Ministry Of William Jackson
On May 30th, fell asleep, at the age of 72 years, William Jackson, for twenty years the indefatigable secretary of the Aged Pilgrims' Asylum, Hornsey Rise, and for nearly twenty previous years of the Camberwell Asylum, also more recently of those at Brighton and Stamford Hill. In William Jackson very many have lost a true friend, but not one an enemy. It might be thought singular by some that his interest and constant care were chiefly devoted to (I will not say divided by) those extremes of life—youth and old age—but in this was no incongruity. Both claim, for both need the peculiar gentleness and kind, sympathising spirit so abundantly seen in our friend. Awakened to Divine realities early in life, he was baptized and…
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The Life And Ministry Of W. H. Lee
Dear Brother Winters,—At your request I attempt to send you a few lines respecting the old and new man living in one house. I was born on November 24th, 1838, at Eastwood-end (at the only shop in the village), near March, Cambridgeshire. My parents were professing people. We usually went to March twice on Lord's-day to hear a Mr. Betts (Congregationalist). On the reversion of circumstances, my parents went to New South Wales (Australia), in 1849; they arrived there 8th July that year. As soon as possible my father went on shore to see about a house, as we had a good long voyage—17 weeks in the ship "Scotia." My dear mother was then expecting an increase (there were then living six-four boys and two…
