{"id":1391,"count":1,"description":"J. L. Meeres (1811-1897) was a Strict and Particular Baptist preacher. In 1847, he was appointed pastor of the chapel on New Church-street, Bermondsey. He was also one of the earlier presidents of the Metropolitan Association of Strict Baptist Churches, a role he filled for three years. His loss was deeply felt by the Strict Baptist \u2018denomination\u2019 as he was the last link between the old generation of gospel preachers (Hazelton, Foreman, Anderson, Box, etc.) and the new. ","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/category\/j-l-meeres\/","name":"J. L. Meeres","slug":"j-l-meeres","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}