{"id":23931,"date":"2025-01-07T00:03:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T00:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=23931"},"modified":"2025-01-07T00:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T00:03:50","slug":"the-death-of-grey-hazlerigg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/01\/the-death-of-grey-hazlerigg\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death Of Grey Hazlerigg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Earthen Vessel 1913:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Late G. Hazlerigg<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The Church is the poorer when such faithful servants of her Lord are called home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe fought a good fight,&#8221; &#8220;kept the faith,&#8221; and now rests from his labours; but his works will long follow him in the springing up of the seed sown in his abundant labours. His memory is blessed, especially to those who were favoured and fed by his ministry from either pulpit or pen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"23931\" 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>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":13099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1044],"tags":[1232,1226],"class_list":["post-23931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grey-hazlerigg-sermons","tag-baptist-history","tag-gospel-preachers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23931","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23932,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23931\/revisions\/23932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}