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The Life And Ministry Of A. E. Realff
In the afternoon of January 20, Mr. J. Box most kindly supplied for W. J. Styles, who was incapacitated through illness. Proceeding to explain in a most lucid and affectionate manner the nature of a Gospel Church: its privileges and duties, our dear brother took for his text Dan. 10:21, first clause. Very sweetly and encouragingly was he led into…
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The Life And Death Of William Hazelton
The severe and protracted sufferings of our beloved brother, William Hazelton, were brought to a close by death on Lord's-day evening, January 11th, at 8.20, in the National Hospital, Queen's Square, Bloomsbury, London. It will be remembered by many of our readers who attended the Annual Meetings of the Suffolk and Norfolk Particular Baptist Association, on June 6th, 1888, at…
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The Life And Ministry Of William Hazelton
In taking up the pen to write the memoir of a good man, one feels the deep need of superintending grace, so that the right words may be used. There is, at the same time, the consciousness that peculiar mental qualifications are necessary to the right performance of such a task. Whatever qualification the present writer may lack, he feels…
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The Life And Ministry Of Charles Cornwell
Mr. C. Cornwell, the pastor of Brixton Tabernacle, was born in Cambridgeshire in 1833, and was sent to a day-school, and afterwards to a school connected with the National Church at Horningsea, but he left early. Some few years afterwards he resided at Waterbeach, and attended the Baptist Sunday School when Mr. C. H. Spurgeon first commenced his labours there.…
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The Life And Ministry Of Benjamin Northfield
It was on Dec. 27th, 1859, that I first saw the light of this world, my native place being Potton, Bedfordshire. I cannot remember the time when I had not serious reflections of my state as a guilty sinner before God. The death of my dear mother took place when I was only about five years old. A year or…
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The First Strict And Particular Baptist Church In Lincoln
On Friday evening, June 26, 1874, a Church of Baptized Believers was formed in Newland Street, meeting in Lincoln, and Mr. W. Simpson was called to and publicly recognized as the pastor. The order of service is here given, it may be useful to others: W. Simpson read and they sung a hymn. C. W. Banks read the Word, pleased…
