• Samuel Jones

    The Life And Ministry Of Samuel Jones

    As my father, Mr. Samuel Jones, late of Peckham Grove, Camberwell (a notice of whose death appeared in last month's obituary of the EARTHEN VESSEL), was all his life identified with the Strict Baptist body, a short sketch, drawn up mainly from his own manuscript, may not be uninteresting. He was born at 23, Budge-row, London, June 21, 1817, of…

  • Benjamin Ramsbottom

    All Our Times Appointed

    None of us chose the time when we were born and none of us will choose the time when we shall die. These times are divinely appointed and nothing can ever alter them. Neither did we choose the circumstances in which we were born; neither can we choose the circumstances in which we shall die. All these things are divinely…

  • William Mason

    Christ Suffered Without The Gate

    Sin viewed in the glass of God’s holy law, fills the soul with terror, works wrath in the conscience, and leaves the sinner under the curse without hope. But while the infinitely precious sacrifice of Jesus is beheld, sin appears exceeding sinful; the sinner is truly humbled, sin is loathed, Christ is cleaved to, and hope springs up in a…

  • William Mason

    My Soul Cleaveth Unto The Dust

    One would dread that state most of all others, which St. Paul describes, ‘being past feeling.’ Eph. 4:19. True there is this alleviation; such are insensible of their deplorable condition. But if the great trumpet of the gospel awakes not the soul in this life to spiritual sense and feeling, verily the loud archangel’s-trumpet will awaken it to hear its…

  • Maria M'Kenzie

    The Life And Testimony Of Maria M’Kenzie

    In early life she belonged to the Church of England, but, on Mr. M'Kenzie going forth to preach the truth in Preston and the neighbourhood, she was led to hear him, and the word was made a blessing to her soul. She cast in her lot with the people, and was baptized. She was afterwards taken seriously ill in London…

  • The Gospel Standard

    A Review: The National Synod Of The Belgic Reformed Churches, Held At Dort, In The Years 1618 and 1619

    We conscientiously object to an established church in any form, believing that such establishments are unscriptural, and always have proved themselves to be, more or less, persecuting bodies. These religious formations stand opposed to the separate, independent churches formed by the apostles under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Every true church is complete in itself.