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The Life And Legacy Of John Jones
The Christians whose sentiments are advocated in this magazine are at once the oldest and the youngest section of the denomination to which they belong. They are the oldest, for they are, in all essential respects, identical with the Particular Baptists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They are the youngest, for they did not assume their present distinct position until the popularity of the doctrinal views of Andrew Fuller (originally promulgated in 1782) and the spread of the practice of open communion (first introduced by Robert Hall about the year 1816) compelled them to make a stand for the faith and order of the Gospel and to withdraw from all ecclesiastical connection with those who had so widely departed from the tenets of their…
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The Life And Death Of John Jones
The Death Of Mr. John Andrews Jones, Of Jireh Chapel, East Road, City Road While busily engaged in writing, a note came to hand which authorises us to announce that the patriarchal metropolitan Baptist minister—John Andrews Jones—has been removed from this world, where for more than eighty-eight years he was an inhabitant. The note referred to, says,— “260, Oxford street, July 15th, 1868. “Mr. C. W. Banks,—It is my painful duty to inform you of the death of Mr. J. A. Jones, which occured this morning at three o’clock. You will not be surprised, knowing he had been so long laid aside. Kindly insert some notice in the Vessel. I am, dear sir, yours truly, “A. Clark.” Thus the oldest head of a long-standing race…
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The Life And Ministry Of William Ewens
Death. On Nov. 25th, 1869, aged 38, William Ewens, deacon of the church at Chippenham. He was brought to a knowledge of his sinnership under the ministry of the Independents, and through the death of his brother the work in his heart was greatly deepened. He went on for a long time in bondage, ofttimes creeping into secret places, begging for mercy. After a time, he was led by the Lord in his providence to go to Allington, to hear the late Mr. Philpot; and he was the means, in the Lord's hands, of breaking his bonds and setting his soul at sweet liberty. He could say, "How beautiful are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings!"
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The Death Of Grey Hazlerigg
We sincerely hope the Church of Christ will be favoured with the record of the life of this faithful pastor, preacher, and editor. Our beloved brother fell asleep in Jesus on October 4th, 1912, at the advanced age of 94 years. For over three score years he was the devoted pastor of the Church meeting for worship at Zion Chapel, Leicester. We had anticipated the publication of his life and labours in the Gospel Standard, of which at one time he was the esteemed editor, but were disappointed in having but two pages in the December issue, with no indication of a forthcoming memoir.
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Philpot’s And Popham’s Remembrance Of Grey Hazlerigg
Jospeh Philpot: “I remember him as a slim, dapper, little man with a pale, thin face and an aristocratic nose." James Popham, then Editor of the Gospel Standard in the year of Hazlerigg’s death: “It would seem that an archangel cannot be employed in a work so honourable, so glorifying to God, so beneficial to elect men as a true minister of the gospel can. And such a minister was the late Mr. Hazlerigg. To how many he was such is known only to God who sent him and
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The Life And Testimony Of Sarah Mortimer (Gilbert)
At Avebury, on February 24th, 1868, aged 69, Sarah Gilbert. She was my sister in the flesh, and I believe, in the Lord. She was one of fourteen who made the church formed at Avebury in 1830. She was convinced of her state as a sinner before God in 1826, and attended the ministry of Mr. Pontin, who then brought the truth into that village. He was one of the friends of what is now called the Old Baptist Chapel, Devizes. Sarah was taught by the Spirit her condemnation by the law, and the mercy of God in Christ justifying her by imputed righteousness, which she ever gloried in. She was often tossed with tempest, and sometimes sweetly comforted; therefore, being, often emptied from vessel…
