Mr. John Bloomfield's Removal from Lon-
don, 31; A Visit to Bethany, 32: The Clay and
the Potter, 33; Willenhall, Little London, 33;
The Best Way to Build a New Tabernacle. 34;
Mr. W. Crowther on the Death of Mr. John
Poynder, 34; Who will go? 35; Barking road,
Plaistow, 35; Hoxton, 35; To Good Ministers
of Jesus Christ, 36; Tring, 36; The History of
Baptists, 36; Homerton, 36; A Preaching Tour
of 15,000 Miles in South Australia, 56; Mr.
Bloomfield's Farewell, 58; Surrey Tabernacle,
58; The Testimonial to Mr. J. A. Jones, 59; A
Letter from Mr. Abraham Howard, of Birming-
ham, 60; Richmond, Surrey, 61; Willenhall,
62; Jubilee Meeting at Two Waters, Herts, 63;
Midnight Meetings, 64; Aylesbury, 64; Dal-
ston, 65; Irthlingboro', 65; Farnborough, Kent,
65; Braintree, 66; Sutton, 66. Colney Hatch,
66; Doncaster, 67; Strict Baptist Church,
Southampton, 67, Lee, Kent, 67; Long Mar-
stou, 67; Model Prayer Meeting, 67; Mayford,
68; Peckham, 68; Birmingham, 63; Chelten-
ham. 68; Sturry, 68; Public Recognition of
the Rev. John Bloomfield, at Bradford, 92;
Bethnal Green, 93; New Brompton, 93; A Good
Example, 94; Birmingham, 95; Mr. Charles
Hill at Meard's Court, Soho, 97; Nottinghill, 98;
Pulpit Utterances, 99; Mr. Blake at Dalston,
99; "A Model Prayer Meeting," 100; The
Church at Newport Pagnell, and Recognition
of Mr. W. Ward, 125; Melbourne, Australia,
126; Chatham, 127; St. Luke's, 128; Islington,
129: The History and Present Prospects of Eld
Lane Baptist Chapel, Colchester, 129; Clapham,
181; Bethnal Green, 131; Irthlingboro', 131;
St. Neot's, Hants, 131; Soho, 132; Bradford,
132; Cambridge Heath, 132: Woodford, North-
ampton, 132; Old Ford, 132; Homerton, 132;
Good Friday at the Surrey Tabernacle, 156;
Artillery street Chapel, Bishopsgate street, 159;
Colchester Chapel Case, 159; Suffolk, 160; The
Late Benjamin Mason, 161; Messrs. Bloomfield
and Anderson, 162; City Road, 162; Chatteris,
Cambs, 163; Bermondsey, New road, 163;
Woolwich, 163; Borough, 163; Homerton, 164;
Mr. John Bloomfield at Bradford, 164; Nor-
wich, 164; Notice. 164: Hornsey Rise, 164;
Woburn Green, 164; The late Mr. Edward
Warren, 164; A Walk in Cheltenham, 185; Soho
Chapel, and Mr. Pells' Friends, 186: Bethnal
Green and South Hackney Evangelical Mission,
187; Dalston. 189; Brosely, Salop, 189; Houn-
slow, 190; Blackheath, 191; Pastors Without
Purses, 191; Mr. Wells' Visit to Newcastle-on-
Tyne, 192; Clapham, 192; Gutteridge street,
Hillingdon Heath, 193; Adelaide, 193; Irth-
lingboro', 194, Happy Meetings at Mendles-
ham, Suffolk, 194; Glemsford, 194; Stepney,
195; Hope Chapel New 'chools, 195; Braintree,
195; Glemsford, 196; Homerton, 196; Deal,
196; Plymouth, 196; Dalston, 196; Tring. 196;
Foxcote, Gloucestershire, 196; Cheltenham,
196; A Plain Countryman's Visit to the Anni-
versary of the Suffolk and Norfolk Association
of Baptist Churches, held at Laxfield, June 4th
and 5th, 1867, 216; Seeking for Pardon, 220;
Happy Services at Rye Lane, Peckham, 222;
Mr. John Corbitt Defended, 224; West End,
Chobham, 225; East Bergholt, 226; A Sunday
at Knowl Hill, 227; Woburn Green, 227;
Sharnbrook, Beds. 227; Newton Abbot Devon-
shire, 228; Orpington, Kent, 228; Stepney, 228;
Southwark, 228; Brosely, Shropshire, 228; Par;
ticular Baptists and Strict Baptists, 252; Strict
Communion, 252; Soho Chapel, Oxford Street,
254; Islington, 254; Sutton, Isle of Ely, 255;
Norfolk, 255; Sible Hedingham, 255; Halifax,
Nova Scotia, 256; Plymouth, 256; Askett, 257;
Foxcote, Glouceste shire, 257; Woodford,
Norths. 258; Knowl Hill, 258; Wimbledon, 258;
Surrey Tabernacle, Walworth road, 259; New-
port Pagnell. 260; Dalston, 260; Bexley Heath,
260; A Letter from a Soldier in the United
States of America, 283; Unhappy Suicide of
the late Mr. George Wright, 285; A Letter by
Mr. Thomas Edwards, of Tunbridge Wells,
286; Lower Tooting, Surrey, 287; The British
and Trish Home Missionary Society, 288; Wal-
tham Abbey, 288: Devonport, 289; Irthling-
borough, Baptist Chape, 289; Kenninghall,
Norfolk, 289; Mr, Kershaw, and the Deceased
Ministers, 290; Ordination of Mr. Thomas
Steed, 290; Hitchin, Herts, 291; King's Lang-
ley, 291; Jireh Chapel, East Bergholt, 291;
Presentation to Mr. William Stokes, 291 Ips.
wich, Bethesda Chapel, 292; Birmingham, 292;
Newbury, 292; Brockhampton, Gloucestershire,
292; Stepney, 292; Coggleshall, 292; Second
Anniversary of the Opening of the New Surrey
Tabernacle, 316; Dea.h of Mr. John Carr, 318;
Anniversary of Brother Richard Snaith's
Chapel, on the Forest of Dean, Cooper's Hill,
and Cheltenham, 318; Bath, 319; Appeal from
Sydney, N. S Wales, 320; Euston Road, 321;
Myddelton Hall, Upper street, Islington, 322;
A Good Day at Kingston-upon Thames, 322;
Heywood, near Rochdale, 323; Baptising by
Mr. Thomas Poock, at Ipswich, 323; Wimble-
don, 323; East Bergholt, 323; Pimlico, 324;
City Road, 324; Billingborough, in Lincoln-
shire, 324; Death of Mr. J. Hamblin, 324;
What is wanted in London, 324; Mr. John Bun-
yan M'Cure, 345; The Inauguration of a Revival
of the London Strict Baptist Churches, 345;
Peckham, 346; Jireh Chapel, East road, Lon-
don, 347; Harvest Thanksgiving Sermons, 348;
Plymouth, 349; Boston, 349; M. Wilkins' First
Anniversary at Soho Chapel, Oxford street,
350: Mr. George Wyard on the late W. Palmer,
350; London Itinerant Baptist Ministers' Asso-
ciation, 351; Sible Hedingham, 352: Clapham,
353; Clare, Suffolk, 353; Bath, 353; Kingsbridge
Trinity Chapel, 354; Bigbury, Devon, 354; Tot-
nes, 354; Street, Somerset, 354; Hertford, 355;
Hoxton, 355; Newton Abbott, 355; Cheering
Note to our Esteemed Brother Mitson, 356; The
late Mrs. Taylor, 356; Striking Sentence for
Ministers, 356;
THE SEVEN HELPS OF HEAVEN, WHEREWITH A WANDERING ISRAELITE RETURNED UNTO GOD.
"Sure as God is living,
The storm is drawing nigh; The warning still is giving; The millions pass it by. To Scripture I'm appealing, THE TRUTH is there contain❜d, It needs no human sealing, Its Author is unfeign'd.
"This storm of heaven's sending Will come as in the night, When Christ the Lord descending Shall all His foes affright:
"The heaven and earth all flaming, Away will quickly pass,
And all creation's framing Will be one flaming mass.
"THEN-every true believer, Whose safety is of grace. Shall be WITH CHRIST FOR EVER, And see HIM face to face. His Church, for heaven fitted, Shall enter at the door;
No more shall be admitted,
For "Time shall be no more!"
KIND READERS OF THIS "EARTHEN VESSEL "-in commencing the twenty-third volume of this wide-spreading monthly-in entering upon the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-seven, I feel the responsibility and solemnity of my work more than ever; because I cannot divest my mind of the stern conviction that there is an approaching reality in the facts expressed in the lines which I have quoted above, and which, on sitting down to pen this brief address to you, caught my eye, and sunk down my soul almost to sadness as I read them in the November number of The Gospel Magazine; and in printing them here pray God to bless the perusal of them unto many thousands: for, certainly these are not times for trifling, or thinking lightly of the awful and fast-approaching fulfilment of many of the most important portions of the word of God: much less doth it become us to be carried away with the extravagant speculations, or mere literal predictions which meet us on every hand. Three things appear to me to be of more value than all the writings and anticipations of the wisest of men which the world can produce.
The first thing is, to have THE WORD OF GOD, as Jeremiah con
fessed before the LORD he had it. He says, "Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and Thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart,—for I am called by Thy name, O Lord God of Hosts." For many years, Christian friends, this one thing has been my stay-my strengthmy salvation-my comfort-my secret and holy pleasure, and the mainspring of my ministry; the word of the Lord has been found (dropping in my soul) and I have ate it, and it has carried me into the closest communion with the Lord God; and it has enabled me to stand in the ministry with authority, with liberty, and with some usefulness to seeking and sorrowing hearts. Seek ye, to have, and to hold fast by then, the good word of God.
The second invaluable blessing is to have that which is written of the Witnesses in Revelation xi. : "The Spirit of Life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet.' We are all dependent upon the incomings, shinings, revealings, and teachings of the blessed SPIRIT OF GOD, if, indeed, we are the quickened and Spirit-born children of God. Without His unction and power, we nothing good can do; but with His gracious and sacred enlightenings we shall be wiser than all the carnal and naturally gifted teachers in Christendom. To have the SPIRIT-to be led of the SPIRIT-to know His teachings and His power are privileges great indeed!
Then, of course, the third result of all this will be an experience of the love of God in the heart, making it honest and hearty, and humble in His sight and in His service: an experience of the sin-subduing and sin-forgiving blood of the Passover LAMB, and an experience of the convicting and converting grace of the HOLY SPIRIT in our souls from day to day. With these things we are safe, whatever may come.
With Paul I would say—if God will condescend still to spare and use me as His instrument in any measure,-"I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls-(as the margin says)-"Though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved." Be it so-if God see
There are three sentences which have taken fast hold of me in opening this part of my work for you. They are in Hosea's prophecy. chapter thirteen, verses nine and ten, and read thus,
If the whole of the Divine revelation concerning man in the fall— A TRIUNE GOD in the covenant of grace-and the ultimate mutual glory of CHRIST and the Church, I say, if the whole of the two-fold mystery is not comprehended in these three lines, then I have not received the true knowledge of the Scriptures; nor have I that wisdom which maketh wise unto salvation. But with confidence I presume to call attention to these words, in these times,—because they are expressive of the three general conditions in which the redeemed Church of Christ has been-is -and will be found-as the Holy Ghost again and again declares. In the Bible there are, as it were
THREE FAITHFULLY REFLECTING MIRRORS.
In the first place-if the SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD be your Teacher, you may see the whole family of Adam in the depths of darkness-in
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