It was at our own special request that we asked permission to present our readers, at the commencement of this year, as a frontispiece to the Earthen Vessel & Gospel Herald, a portrait of our venerable and much-valued friend, Mr. Charles Wilson. In the April number for the year 1889, a portrait of Mr. Wilson was inserted from a very…

Delivered At The Annual Meeting Of The Metropolitan Association Of Strict Baptist Churches, On March 12, 1889 By Mr. Charles Wilson, President Beloved Friends,—Most heartily do I thank you for the honour conferred upon me in electing me as president of the Metropolitan Association of Strict Baptist Churches. Through the blessing of God upon the noble efforts of our forefathers,…

On the last day of the year, Saturday, December 31st, 1898, we followed the mortal remains of brother C. Wilson to the grave. As a natural consequence, owing to the high esteem in which Mr. Wilson was held by the Strict Baptist Denomination, a large concourse of friends from the metropolis and suburbs gathered on the solemn occasion, the large…

Dear Mr. Editor,—At your request I send you a few particulars of my life. I was born in the parish of Stradbrook, in the county of Suffolk, on the 13th of May, 1817. My father was a schoolmaster, and my mother was a godly woman, a member of the Baptist Church in the village. Being much afflicted, she became deeply…

Charles Wilson, our dear father, was born at Stradbroke, in Suffolk, on May 22, 1817. His father kept a boys' school in that village, and, though a good schoolmaster, was not a Christian, nor a kind father. His mother was a member of the Baptist Church, and, though she died when he was very young, her Christian character influenced him…