{"id":24350,"date":"2025-03-02T22:36:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T22:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=24350"},"modified":"2025-03-02T22:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T22:36:23","slug":"the-life-and-death-of-johnson-grimwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/03\/the-life-and-death-of-johnson-grimwood\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life And Death Of Johnson Grimwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Earthen Vessel 1913:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Death. Johnson Grimwood was called home February 7<sup>th<\/sup>, 1913, aged 84 years. Our dear brother was Pastor at Charsfield eleven years; Stonham Parva seventeen years and ten months. His last pastorate was Cransford, Suffolk, and the writer will remember the services he has conducted in his house; how sweet their memory still. Though not a great preacher he was a good man, a gracious man, and a diligent man in this world\u2019s affairs. I have heard him say he has been at his work all day, drove home, had some refreshment, walked to Charsfield (eleven miles) on a winter\u2019s night, and home again; sometimes nearly midnight before he reached home. Our dear brother would rise at any hour to show an act of kindness to anyone in need.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He was brought out of the Church of England under one Charles Shorting, a very truthful man, another John Ryle (of Stradbroke) for earnestness.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our brother was highly esteemed by the Suffolk Churches and Pastors.<\/p>\n<p>He was buried in Gosbeck Churchyard. There were twenty-three friends from Stonham Parva to his burial. On Lord\u2019s-day, March 9<sup>th<\/sup>, our Pastor improved his death from the words in 1 Chron. 29:28: \u201cHe died in a good old age; full of days.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A. G. Hall<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"24350\" 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>Johnson Grimwood was called home February 7th, 1913, aged 84 years. Our dear brother was Pastor at Charsfield eleven years; Stonham Parva seventeen years and ten months. His last pastorate was Cransford, Suffolk, and the writer will remember the services he has conducted in his house; how sweet their memory still. Though not a great preacher he was a good man, a gracious man, and a diligent man in this world\u2019s affairs. I have heard him say he has been at his work all day, drove home, had some refreshment, walked to Charsfield (eleven miles) on a winter\u2019s night, and home again; sometimes nearly midnight before he reached home. Our dear brother would rise at any hour to show an act of kindness to anyone in need.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":558,"featured_media":24349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1810],"tags":[1232,1226],"class_list":["post-24350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-johnson-grimwood","tag-baptist-history","tag-gospel-preachers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24350","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\/558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24351,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24350\/revisions\/24351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}