Edwin White
Edwin White (1846-?) was a Strict and Particular Baptist preacher. His first pastorate was with the church meeting at Orphington (1877-1879). After two years, the communion question cropped up, the majority of members deciding to throw the Table open. He forthwith resigned his office. His second pastorate was with the church meeting at Clare, Suffolk (1881-1887). After six years of blessed ministry, he resigned the office due to health reasons. His third pastorate was with the church meeting at Woolwich, Enon Chapel (1891-1919). In 1911 was elected president of the Metropolitan Association of Strict Baptist Churches.
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The Word Of God, Work Of Christ, And Witness Of The Spirit
We may learn from an enemy. Certainly Rabshakeh and his master were enemies to Judah; thus he asks this taunting question. We would urge it in a different spirit, and on more important matters. Because there are many false confidences in which men trust. Did not the Saviour speak of those who built their house on a foundation of sand? And in time of storm the whole fabric came to the ground. There are those who blindly trust their fellow-creatures, carried away with their specious arguments and false reasonings. It is disastrous to trust false men with earthly property, as many have proved to their cost; but it is far more serious to trust such in the eternal matters of the soul. Yet, alas! many…
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Conservatism And Progress
Having been called to this position by your suffrages, dear brethren, while shrinking from the prominence and responsibility of the post, I thank you for the honour conferred upon me, and trust that the year of office now entered upon may be fruitful in much blessing to our Associated Churches, consolidating our union, enlarging our borders that in the Lord's work in our beloved Association we may all take the deepest and most active interest. Individual effort can do much when rightly directed and prayerfully sustained, but when numbers unite in any good work, labouring on such lines as ours, success is certain. It now behoves me to address you upon a subject left to my own selection, and yet I trust it has not…
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Futurity Wisely Hidden
In stepping over the threshold of another year, we pause and ask, What will it bring forth? What joys or sorrows are in store for us? What plans shall we form for this year? What lessons have we learned in the past? What duties have we neglected in the position we occupy? What shall be our aim this year? Shall it be like those in the context, to buy, sell, and get gain? Or shall we be found seeking those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God the Father?
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The Believer’s Rest
Without stopping to dwell on the rest of the Sabbath, which God instituted when He had completed the fair work of creation, as He gazed with complacent eye on every form of beauty, as it came forth into being perfected by His creative power, He pronounced it very good, He rested and sanctified the Sabbath day for ever; nor can we tarry to speak of the rest of God's Israel, in the land of Canaan, after He had led them about and instructed them for forty years in the wilderness, although their conduct, their wanderings, and God's gracious dealings with them, their final possession
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The Word Of God Found, And Fed Upon
The prophet had to write some bitter things which often made his heart sad; he was a man of strife and contention to the whole earth; he had to rebuke sharply for sin, and tell his own people of their coming judgments, that they would be carried away into captivity to Babylon; this raised him up enemies and persecutors for his faithfulness; but he appeals to his God; he was not left without comfort and help. God strengthened him by His Word: this Word which others hated and despised he found his greatest consolation. So is it still with the godly man; let us note a few things in this passage for our instruction, dear reader.
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Sin Discovered And Punished
God had done much for Israel. Their wilderness wanderings were at an end. They had crossed the Jordan, entered upon the fair land of promise. They had seen Jericho's walls fall prostrate before the Ark of God; and now, with full confidence they march on to Ai. But here they meet with a reverse, which humbles their leader, Joshua, and drives him to his God in prayer. God soon reveals the cause, "Israel hath sinned," therefore their enemies have triumphed over them; there is an Achan in the camp.
