THE OAKINGTON GRAVES During the latter part of the year 1916, being a comparative stranger to the village of Oakington, I was told of the existence of three graves in a garden adjoining the parish church and invited to attempt a visit to them. To do this it was necessary at that time to obtain …
Issue: Issue 7
THE MORLEY GRAVES In connexion with the three graves at Oakington, it may be noticed that there is a similar group in the graveyard of Moriey Chapel, near Leeds, Yorkshire. The three following ejected ministers there sleep together:— Robert Pickeringe, who, as stated on the tombstone, “counted himself the meanest servant in the work of …
GOD HEARS AND ANSWERS PRAYER The following narrative was related by Mr. John Warburton, of Southill, at Rehoboth Chapel, Stotfold, on December 24th, 1876. The lad spoken of was known to Mr. Warburton, and I believe that he had the relation from his own lips. He was one of a family in good circumstances, and …
GROWING IN GRACE Here is a short description of a ‘Men’s’ meeting held at Achterneed—the scene of Donald Duff’s labour in the past—in the summer of 1880, a few years before he died. Such meetings were occasionally held in the district between services during summer communion seasons. The account given of this particular service is …
I HAVE FOUND HIM I remember well a poor man who had been long accustomed to hear me preach, with whom I never had conversation, until on his dying bed, I visited him. I found God had convinced him of sin; that he knew the Doctrines of Grace; he knew the only way a poor …
CALLING ON GOD On a communion Sabbath in the North, the felt presence of the Lord was so overpowering that the presiding minister found it difficult to speak. Many were melted down, for a ‘bright cloud had overshadowed them.’ Some time afterwards, a good man who was present remarked in his prayer that, at the …
RUN ASHORE UPON CHRIST I find Christ to be Christ, and that He is far, far, even infinite heaven’s height above man. And that is all our happiness. Sinners can do nothing but make wounds that Christ may heal them; and make debts, that He may pay them; and make falls, that He may raise …
BRING MY SONS FROM FAR The following circumstance was narrated by an eye-witness, and forms a touching comment upon the Holy Ghost’s words by the prophet Isaiah, “Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth.” The children of an Officer of Rank in India, were sent to England under …
Solomon states, “There is a time to be born, and a time to die.” It is not said, there is a time to live—as if the moment between those two events were too insignificant to be even mentioned. I wonder if God were to call you away tonight, are you all marked with the precious …