Samuel Jones
Samuel Jones (1817-1880) was a Strict and Particular Baptist preacher. Although fully engaged in business, he served as an itinerate preacher of the gospel throughout the regions of Watford, Bushey, King's Langley, and other towns and villages of Hertfordshire and neighbouring counties. In 1873, while living at Margate, and unable to find an accommodation for those holding Strict Baptist views, a hall was rented, the congregation of which was organized into Mount Ephraim Baptist Chapel, Thanet-road.
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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 respectable, God-fearing parents. At first his life was despaired of; and he says, writing in 1872: "I was a sickly child for some time, and in the nurse's arms till I was three years of age;
