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A Book Review: The Trial Of Job, By Silas Durand
The book of Job is one of the most remarkable in the Bible. It contains the history of the trials of a man of whom God himself declares that he was a perfect man and upright, fearing God and eschewing evil. It fills the mind with wonderment at the extent of the good man's calamity, and the mystery of God's dealings with him. It almost alarms when it leads us to think what a child of God may have to suffer in this life, and yet cheers and consoles us by revealing the end of the Lord in the whole matter,—that he is pitiful, and of the most tender mercy; not afflicting willingly, or grieving unnecessarily the children of men.
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The Life And Ministry Of Silas Durand
Silas Durand, of Southampton, Pa., son of Daniel and Asenath Durand, was born in Bradford County, Pa., June 5, 1833, and was the eleventh in a family of fourteen children. His childhood and early youth were spent on his father's farm. In his eighteenth year, he began teaching, and in 1858 entered the law office of Hon. H. P. Wright, of Wilesbarre, Pa., for the purpose of studying law. In 1860 he was admitted to the bar, and entered upon what promised to be a very successful business career.
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The Life And Testimony Of Ellen Tatley
From a child she was of a quiet and peaceable disposition, and was brought up by strictly honest and very "pious" parents, but they were Arminians. At an early age she had serious and solemn impressions of mind with reference to her never-dying soul and the realities of eternity. She became a member of the Wesleyan Methodists and a Sunday-school teacher, and adorned her profession by a consistent walk, which continued to the end.
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The Life And Testimony Of John Jeffries
He was a good old warrior, being called to fight under Christ's banner over half a century against "the world, the flesh, and the devil," with whose delusive joys, corruptions, and devices he was not unacquainted. He was of very poor and illegitimate birth. His mother, dying while he was young, left him in charge of his grandmother who cared but little about poor John. He grew up, not knowing how to read or write, for he was obliged to earn his living when only 7 years old.
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The Life And Testimony Of Elizabeth Gadsby (Gee)
Death. On Dec. 14th, at the residence of her parents, Finchley New Road, South Hampstead, aged 35, Elizabeth Leete Gee, wife of Mr. Wright Gee, manager of the Manchester and County Bank, Wigan, and daughter of the publisher of this magazine. She had for some time been in a delicate state of health, and the unfavourable symptoms were greatly increased after her last confinement. It was hoped that a change might, with the blessing of God, prove beneficial to her. She was, therefore, on a visit to her parents.
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The Life And Testimony Of John Stockdale
In that valuable work on “Church Fellowship,” by Mr. W. Jeyes Styles, the writer thus defines the office of deacon:—“Deacons are honorary servants of the Church, who, for Christ’s sake, and love to His cause, attend to all temporal matters, and thus leave their pastor more free to pursue his high and holy calling”; and our author further adds on “The Ideal Deacon” (Note XI, p. 147):—“It is clear that Deacons must not only be in fellowship with the Church, but men well known for the spirituality of their religion, the consistency of their lives, their adherence to the doctrines of the Gospel, and their manifested fitness for the work.”
