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The Life And Ministry Of Edgar Flegg
Dear Brother,—In response to your request I send you a brief outline of my life. I was born in London, in the year 1867. I was blessed with godly parents, brought up under Christian influence and training, and the subject of many earnest prayers on the part of my parents. These things, together with the godly instruction I received at Soho Sunday School, were the means of preventing me from running into the depths of outward sin, into which some are permitted to go. About the year 1880, I was much affected by my brother being baptized, and became greatly concerned with respect to my condition before God. From this time I commenced attending the week-night services with my brother, and, although I often felt…
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The Life And Death Of John Brine
John Brine, Baptist. Here lie interred the remains of the Rev. John Brine, who departed this life February 21st, 1765, in the 63rd year of his age. His ministerial abilities were very extraordinary, and his zeal and faithfulness in asserting and defending the great truths of religion, equally conspicuous. Not long before his decease, he expressed his sentiments in the following words: “I think I am of sinners the chief—of saints the least; I know that I am noting, but by the grace of God, I am what I am.”
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The Life And Ministry Of Daniel Herbert
Daniel Herbert was born about the year 1751. He had to wade through a long series of losses and crosses, that bore down upon him like a torrent, and so shattered his nerves that he never finally recovered. But though God tried him in the furnace of temporal affliction, he balanced his stroke, when the barrel of meal and cruse of oil had been nearly spent, by raising him up some friendly aid; so that he often said. "How good is God to me, a poor, discontented, murmuring, rebellious worm!" The editor of the "Gospel Magazine," 1833, says of him, "He was a plain, unadorned, though faithful and honest, messenger to dispense the word of eternal life to the helpless family of Zion. In early…
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The Life And Ministry Of Ebenezer Marsh
Born into this world of sin on August 5th, 1853, the dealings of God with the writer have been one long chain of goodness, grace and love to the present hour; but, oh! what shame and confusion of face is mine as the question comes, "How has it been requited?" Only the writer could give anything like a just answer to this soul-humbling question, and his pen for very shame refuses to transcribe all he knows. Let my God read it if He will, whose heart of love has blotted out my sins through His own most precious blood, but let no imperfect creature wish to peer into this veritable chamber of horrors—the accumulated transgressions, iniquity, and sin, of this base heart.
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The Life And Ministry Of Gilbert Beebe
Mr. Saluson: In fulfillment of my promise, I will state some of the most important incidents of my life. I was born in the town (now city) of Norwich, Connecticut on the 25th day of November, 1800. At a very early period, and as far back as my memory extends, I was seriously impressed with a solemn conviction of my sinful and lost condition as a sinner, and of the necessity of being "born again," to qualify me to see the kingdom of God. When I think from my best remembrance of the date, I was made to hope and rejoice in God as my Savior, and to feel his love shed abroad in my heart. I think that at that tender age I was…
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The Life And Death Of Isaac Watts
Isaac Watts, Independent. Isaac Watts, D.D., Pastor of a Church of Christ in London; successor of the Rev. Mr. Joseph Caryl, Dr. John Owen, Mr. David Clarkson, and Dr. Isaac Chauncey; after fifty years of feeble labours in the gospel, interrupted by four years of tiresome sickness, was at last dismissed to rest, Nov. 25, A.D. 1748, set. 75.—2 Cor. 5:8, Absent from the body, present with the Lord.—Col 3:4, When Christ who is our lift shall appear, I shall also appear with him him in glory. In unno Jesu omnia. This monument, on which the above modest inscription is placed by order of the deceased, was erected as a testimony of regard to his memory, by Sir John Hartopp, Bart, and Dame Mary Abney.…
