{"id":23766,"date":"2024-12-18T23:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T23:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=23766"},"modified":"2024-12-18T23:53:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T23:53:33","slug":"the-life-and-ministry-of-thomas-kemp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2024\/12\/the-life-and-ministry-of-thomas-kemp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life And Ministry Of Thomas Kemp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gospel Standard 1870:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Death. On Jan. 2nd, 1870, aged 82, Thomas Kemp, of Pell Green, Wadhurst, a deacon of the church there for between 40 and 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>He was a carpenter by trade, and built the chapel there for Mr. Crouch. The people met for a time in Mr. Kemp&#8217;s house, but the place soon became too small for them. Mr. Kemp said to Mr. Crouch, &#8220;When you give me the word, I will build a chapel, and I will never ask you for the money.&#8221; After many prayers, and many fears on the part of Mr. Crouch, the word was given, and Mr. K. built the chapel on his own ground, in 1826. [The writer does not say, but we presume the chapel was invested in trustees.] The chapel had soon afterwards to be enlarged.<\/p>\n<p>My departed friend was one who walked in the truth as well as talked of it. I knew him for about 40 years, and never knew him to depart from his principles. His death was not so triumphant outwardly as the deaths of some are; but he lived a life of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who, he always said, had led, fed, and kept him all his journey through, and he died in peace.<\/p>\n<p>T. B.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Brenchley<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"23766\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death. On Jan. 2nd, 1870, aged 82, Thomas Kemp, of Pell Green, Wadhurst, a deacon of the church there for between 40 and 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>He was a carpenter by trade, and built the chapel there for Mr. Crouch. The people met for a time in Mr. Kemp&#8217;s house, but the place soon became too small for them. Mr. Kemp said to Mr. Crouch, &#8220;When you give me the word, I will build a chapel, and I will never ask you for the money.&#8221; After many prayers, and many fears on the part of Mr. Crouch, the word was given, and Mr. K. built the chapel on his own ground, in 1826. [The writer does not say, but we presume the chapel was invested in trustees.] The chapel had soon afterwards to be enlarged.<\/p>\n<p>My departed friend was one who walked in the truth as well as talked of it. I knew him for about 40 years, and never knew him to depart from his principles. His death was not so triumphant outwardly as the deaths of some are; but he lived a life of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who, he always said, had led, fed, and kept him all his journey through, and he died in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":523,"featured_media":23765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1771],"tags":[1232],"class_list":["post-23766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thomas-kemp","tag-baptist-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23767,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23766\/revisions\/23767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}