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The Seventieth Birthday Of Thomas Stringer
Thousands of the Lord's living witnesses will be delighted to know that Mr. Thomas Stringer has reached his seventieth birthday, in the full vigour of a strong, healthy, cheerful, and useful manhood; and on the evening of his natal day, a host of friends surrounded him in his chapel in Trinity-street, Boro', and through the zealous and honourable exertions of James Lee, Esq., presented him with a purse of £100. We are thankful to God that there still remains in our Churches a people who have faith in, and fellowship with, the Gospel of Christ, the ordinances of the New Testament, and who practically sympathise with Paul in his exhortation to the Thessalonians: "We beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among yon, and…
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The Life And Ministry Of Thomas Stringer
Mr. Thomas Stringer is a man and a minister by himself. We have known multitudes of good and faithful ministers, but, for some things, we never did know any man at all like unto the present minister of Trinity chapel, in Southwark. We saw the late Mr. James Wells baptize Mr. Stringer in East-lane chapel, on the 20th of May, 1844; and when James was fairly in the water with Thomas, James cried out, "Nature has given me a pair of long arms, and when I get any in the water, I take good care that they go right under!" If nature had given James Wells a pair of long arms, what has nature given to Thomas Stringer? A body of large compass, and compact…
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The Life And Testimony Of Edwin White
I was born in a quiet rural village named Fringford, in the heart of Oxfordshire, in the month of August, 1846. My parents were upright, moral people, members of the Church of England, in which I was brought up, and was carefully taught her catechisms and ceremonies, and my teachers laboured to instil into my youthful mind that this was the only true religion, and that schism from the Church was an awful sin. These notions I largely imbibed and looked upon dissenters with supreme contempt. There were a few Methodists in the village. But my young mind even then was not quite satisfied. At times I had convictions and longings to be better than I was, though I never heard from my teachers one…
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The Scriptural Method Of Addressing The Unconverted
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The Life And Ministry Of Henry Fowler
Henry Fowler was born in the parish of Yealmpton, Devonshire, Dec. 11th, 1779. Before he was 11 years old, he was put on trial with a person at Dartmouth, but as the family were dissenters, and as he thought the church people must be right, he was determined he would not serve his time there. Accordingly, he was removed, and apprenticed at Plymouth. He soon contracted the most awful habit of cursing and swearing. Indeed, he was placed in the very school of vice and filthy conversation, and was, he says, the devil's tool. When he had turned 17, he got into company with a poor shoemaker, who induced him to read a little of the "Pilgrim's Progress," and, as he read, explained to him…
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The Life And Ministry Of Thomas Bradbury
“Thomas Bradbury, the eldest son of John Bradbury, and Mary Ann his wife, was born in Manchester, March 26th, 1831. His parents were poor in this world's goods, but ‘rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love Him.’” [From about 1851 to 1859, he came under the ministry of Rev. James Bardsley, Incumbent at Str. Philip’s, Bradford Road, Manchester. He records,] "Here I found myself in charge of a class of young women. How to lay before them God's truth in His plan of saving sinners I knew not. Prayers and supplications ascended to God from the thick darkness of my ignorance for grace and guidance, and an ability to communicate to my young friends that which…
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The Life And Ministry Of Samuel Pierce
Samuel Eyles Pierce (1746–1829), Calvinist divine, born at Up-Ottery vicarage, near Honiton, Devonshire, on 23 June 1746, was son of Adam Pierce, a cabinet-maker of Honiton, and Susannah, daughter of Joseph Chilcott, vicar of Up-Ottery. His mother destined him for the ministry of the church of England. Of retiring disposition as a boy, he was first ‘brought under divine influence’ by reading a book by Dr. Anthony Horneck, and he was impressed by the views of Toplady, whom he heard preach at Broad Hembury. Between February 1772 and August 1775 he spent much time in London, and attended the sermons of Romaine, with whose opinions he was in thorough sympathy. During the same period he applied for guidance to John Wesley, who ‘immediately sent one…
