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The Life And Ministry Of Albert Steele
I could not have been more than three or four years of age when my association with Keppel Street commenced. I graduated as scholar from infant to senior class, and in later years over the same course as teacher. It was not, however, till I had reached man's estate that the serious. aspect of religion presented itself to me. I realized that though engaged in teaching the Word of God, I was ignorant of the spirit and power of it myself. I was unhappy. I knew I was a sinner; I knew Jesus Christ was the Saviour; but could not connect the two facts in their personal relationship. This state of unrest continued some time. I was in earnest about the matter: it pressed itself…
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The Life And Ministry Of William Waite
Dear Brother,—At your request, I will try and pen a few particulars of my life, and the Lord's gracious dealings with me, in calling me by grace, and to the ministry. I was born on the 29th of October, 1840, of Christian parents, at Bradford-On-Avon, and was early taken to the house of God. My father at that time was senior deacon at the old Baptist Church in that town (then under the pastoral care of the late William Hawkins), and took a great interest in every branch of service connected with that honoured house of prayer. For eight or nine years my father was a great sufferer, and it fell to my lot, as soon as I was able, to read the Bible to…
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The Life And Ministry Of Richard Bax
We now proceed to give a brief sketch of the late Mr. Richard Bax, who succeeded Mr. Murrell in the pastorate at St. Neots, chiefly selected from statements delivered by him on the occasion of his ordination, on June 30th, 1868. On the 23rd of August, 1834, he says: "I was born a sinner into an awful world. Sin lived and reigned in me long ere I had moral consciousness to know what it was to live in sin.” His father was a godly man, but a Huntingtonian of the most rigid school; but his mother was a Unitarian, reverencing Christ as an Exemplar, but not as God the Saviour, by the shedding of His own blood. When and how the first conviction of his…
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The Life And Ministry Of Anne Steele
It has been observed that many of our most approved hymn writers were unmarried—the list including Cowper, Sir E. Denny, Charlotte Elliott, Susannah Harrison, R. Murray M'Cheyne, Samuel Pearce, Thomas Row, Jane Taylor, A. M. Toplady, Anna Letitia Waring, Dr. Watts, Henry Kirke White, and the saintly lady whose name appears above. She was the eldest daughter of a timber merchant, who also ministered in the Baptist Chapel at Broughton, in Hampshire. Here she was born in 1716, and was a member of her father's Church for 46 years. An early trouble shadowed her whole life and rendered her a great invalid. She was engaged to be married to a young man named Elscourt, who was drowned when bathing in an adjacent river the day…
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The Life And Ministry Of William Evans
My Dear Brother,—After long delay I comply with your oft-repented request, and send a brief outline of the way which the Lord has led me, a way in which there has been trials, losses, and sorrows, but, withal, goodness, mercy, and faithfulness, so great and constant that encourages hope to expect and faith to believe, “That, after so much mercy past, He’ll not let me sink at last.” I am the offspring of God-fearing parents; my father was called by grace under the ministry of the late W. Huntington, and was for many years deacon at Gower-street Chapel, when the Church there was in the old Independent connection, and under the pastoral care of the late Henry Fowler, with whom and my father there was…
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The Life And Ministry Of S. T. Belcher
Blessed is the man of whom it may be said, "From a child thou hast known the Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation." But this blessedness belongeth not unto me, for my parents, like Galleo, "cared for none of these things." What little religious teaching I ever had was from an aged grandmother, when but a child, who taught me the Lord's prayer and a few of the collects, and the first chapter of John. I was born in Warwickshire in 1843, and at an early age began to realise my share in Adam's lot: "Of the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy bread;" for to this day I have never been allowed to eat the bread of idleness.…
