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The Life And Testimony Of Annie Peake
"If any of my brethren and sisters in the faith should survive me with whom I have walked in soul-union and affection, they may regret that I have not left any record of the Lord's dealings with my soul; and I am not without a corresponding feeling, but circumstances have never favoured my doing so. When the Lord first commenced an effectual work in my soul, by the ploughshare of the law breaking up the fallow ground of my corrupt nature, and laying conviction of sin upon my conscience, about the year 1833, my father, who was then far advanced in years, and quite unacquainted with
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The Life And Testimony Of Mrs. Thomas Jones
Mrs. Jones was born of godly parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Harrington-Page, on October 23rd, 1855, at Ironbridge. She was baptised on September 15th, 1889, and received into the Strict Baptist Church at Birch Meadow, Brosely, Salop. Ultimately she removed to the vicinity of London, where she spent several years at Blackheatb, afterwards at New Cross, where she joined the Church at Zion, meeting there her future husband, Mr. Thomas Jones, the pastor. She was eminently fitted for a pastor's wife, and became a true mother to Mr. Jones’s children by his former wife, nursing his youngest daughter through a long painful illness until her death with all a mother’s tenderness and care. She took an active part in the work at Zion, having a…
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The Life And Testimony Of George Roots
I have in the first place extracted a little from his own writing: "I am a wonder to many, and a far greater wonder to myself; and am often brought to a stand, to wonder I am out of hell; and I wonder I am suffered to live here on earth. Thus I go wondering on my journey homewards; and when I get home I shall find it the greatest of all wonders that such a mass of corruption could be raised to bliss immortal, to spend a never-ending eternity of solid joy and peace with the Lord of life and glory; there to cast all my praise and thankfulness at his feet, and ever crown him Lord of all.
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The Life And Ministry Of Henry Dadswell
My dear father was born at Brighton in the year 1857. His parents were members of the Church at Ebenezer, Richmond Street, of which Mr. Israel Atkinson was pastor, his father being a deacon and secretary of the Sunday-school, and his mother a faithful helper in every good work; and they gave their son the best education in their power. He attended the Sunday-school at “Ebenezer,” and his answers to the pastor’s Bible questions, written when he was in the Bible Class under the leadership, first of Mr. Green and then of Mr. Field, and his papers written for the pastor’s week-night Bible Class at a late dat, when he had become a Sunday-school teacher, so impressed Mr. Atkinson that he told a friend of…
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Daniel Allen: Pastor And Pioneer
There is a class of early settlers of whom Australia is justly proud today. They pursued new avenues of discovery, lent their names to mountains and deserts, and set the standards by which their successors were judged. They possessed qualities of vision, energy, courage, and determination: the ‘true grit’ character which opened up the continent. These were the pioneers. To attempt to include Daniel Allen within this class might be rejected as presumptuous and inappropriate. A pastor he was indeed, looked upon as a father in Christ by many; but a pioneer also? Surely an extravagant claim! Nevertheless, consider the description given above, and compare the following features to determine what spirit he was of. He pioneered, not in opening up a new country, but…
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The Life And Ministry Of Daniel Allen
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The Life And Testimony Of Susannah Peters
Death. On April 20th, 1895, aged 78, Susannah, widow of James Peters, of Brighton, with whom she was a member of the late Mr. John Vinall, Senior's, Church. She, like all the rest of Adam's posterity, went on frowardly in the way of her heart until she was over 20 years of age, when the Lord was pleased to show her her state and condition before him as a sinner. She was then in service, and expected by her mistress to attend the Church of England. By God's inscrutable providence she was induced to hear the late Mr. John Grace, and the word from his lips was so fastened upon her conscience, that this difficulty presented itself, as to how she could give a report…
