• Henry Fowler

    The Arm Of The Lord

    God’s arm implies His power. God's people stand in need of His power every morning—yea, all the day. "Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her Beloved?” Who is it? Not the world, for they are going down the wilderness. They want not the arm of another; they know not their own weakness. Nothing is more…

  • Peter Meney's Scripture Meditations

    I Have Chosen Thee

    Gospel days are in view as Isaiah begins to preach his sermon concerning the Messiah and His saving work. In chapter 40 the Lord repeatedly asked, ‘Have ye not known? Have ye not heard?’ These questions served to emphasis the Messiah’s divinity and unique ministry which God’s prophets had long foretold amongst the Jews. However, Christ’s ministry would be expansive…

  • William Borows

    The Life And Death Of William Borrows

    Our obituary of Wednesday last (April 7) contained a notice of the decease of this faithful minister of Christ, who long and successfully laboured in the neighbourhood of London. The Rev. William Borrows was a native of Derby, and studied at St.Edmund Hall, Oxford, under the present Bishop of Calcutta, who also gave him his first introduction to the metropolis,…

  • Samuel Pierce

    The Life And Legacy Of Samuel Pierce

    Samuel Eyles Pierce was the son of Adam and Susannah Pierce, and was born at Up-Ottery, in the county of Devon, June 11th, 1746. Up-Ottery is about five miles from Honiton, and at that time the Vicar of the parish was the Rev. Joseph Chilcott, Samuel's maternal grandfather. He was born in the Vicarage-house. His mother was a godly woman,…