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The Life And Ministry Of George Abrahams
The Rev. George Abrahams, of Regent-Street Chapel, City Road, has of late excited very considerable attention in the religious world of London. He is a converted Jew. About ten years ago, he professed to have a divine commission to preach to his Israelitish brethren, and consequently statedly addressed the few individuals of their number who felt disposed to listen to his ministrations. At that time he preached in a small room in Nelson’s Place, City Road. A short time before this, and immediately after his conversion to Christianity, he belonged to a church now meeting some where in Islington, and which was remarkable for consisting of Scotch Independents and Baptists, in pretty equal proportions. For some years after his conversion, he continued to follow his…
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The Life And Death Of Daniel Matthews
The following is some account of the late Daniel Matthews, who was pastor of the Strict Baptist Church at Rowley Regis over fifty-nine years, and also of one at Willenball for forty-seven years of that period. Rowley Regis is in the county of Staffordshire, and is noted for its potteries, stone quarries, and nail and rivet works. The places called Old Hill, Cradley Heath, White Heath, Black Heath, Twidal, and the Knowl, are within its area; fifty years ago its population did not exceed 4,000, but in 1891 it stood at 33,000 souls. The precious and everlasting Gospel appears to have been preached in the Episcopalian Church since about the year 1760; and in 1800 the Lord sent a servant of His, George Barre, from…
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The Life And Death Of John Kershaw
John Kershaw was born in Lancashire, August 25th, 1792. His autobiography gives an interesting account of his early life, call by grace and to the ministry; also of his fifty-two years' pastorate at Hope Chapel, Rochdale, and the Jubilee meeting, 1867, when handsome presents were made to Mr. and Mrs. Kershaw, by their loving and beloved friends. After speaking of his early convictions Mr. Kershaw says:— "I was for a time shut up as in despair, wishing I had never been born,—shut up to the faith in Christ, or, as the Apostle hath it, “unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed' (Gal. 3:23). "In this perplexed state of mind I went to Bacup, and heard Mr. Hurst preach from Isaiah 45:22: 'Look unto Me,…
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The Life And Ministry Of Isaac Lewis
Mr. Lewis was born at Burnham, in Essex, on August 13th, 1823, of gracious parents, his mother dying when he was eight years old. In his young days his life was several times preserved in times of danger, but he grew up, as he said, “’like a wild ass's colt,' hardened to everything that was good, and greedily running after evil;" and eventually, with two other boys, he ran away from home and took to a seafaring life on board a man-of-war, where he continued for nearly four years. After he was paid off from the ship he gave full bent to the propensities of his evil heart, much to the grief of his godly father, who adopted the language of David, "Oh, Isaac, my…
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The Life And Death Of John Warburton Jr.
The lamented death of our dear friend, John Warburton, will lead our readers to feel an especial interest in the portrait and sketch which we give in this number. The father of our friend thus writes concerning the subject of this memoir, in his "Mercies of a Covenant God”:— "I shall now relate another sore trial that I passed through, which was one of the keenest I ever had in all my life, so much so that at times I felt as if my very heartstrings were breaking. It was respecting my son John, who is the youngest of ten children now living. I agreed with a person in Trowbridge, who was a tailor, to teach him the business, to whom he went for a…
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The Life And Testimony Of John Warburton
John Warburton (1776-1857) was a link between two generations, for in the early years of his ministry he was encouraged by William Huntington and afterwards became the friend of Joseph Charles Philpot, whom he baptized at Allington in 1835. Of him Mr. Philpot says: "I have heard Mr. Gadsby preach as great, perhaps greater sermons, but I never met with a minister whose prayer in the pulpit, or whose conversation out of it, was so weighty. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, have borne witness to the power and savour which rested upon his testimony; but the blessing he has been made to the Church of God will never be fully known until the day when the secrets of all hearts shall be revealed." Rochdale and Trowbridge were…
