Missionary Pioneers

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: days, during which he presented an edifying example of holy cheerfulness and resignation to the will of God, he finished his course in great peace on the 2nd of March, surrounded by weeping friends engaged in commending his soul into the hands of the Redeemer. Many pious sayings of this holy man of God, to which he gave utterance as he lay upon his death-bed, were noted and treasured up with loving memory; but none have been regarded with fonder affection than the last words which he uttered. When the hand of death was upon him, he frequently repeated with solemn emphasis his own sweet lines, " I the chief of sinners of am, But Jesus died for me." And as the result of that faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, of which these words were the significant expression, he again and again exclaimed in holy triumph, " The best of all is, God is with us;" and then peacefully passed away to his rich reward in heaven. " Servant of God, well done ! Rest from thy loved employ: The battle fonght, the victory won, Enter thy Master-s joy." THOMAS TAYLOR. In the noble band of pioneer evangelists who traversed the wilds of Ireland, Wales, the north of England, and Scotland, in the latter part of the eighteenth century, many honoured names occur; but none is more worthy of a brief memorial in these pages than that of the Rev. Thomas Taylor. He was a man of rare excellency, combining undaunted courage with unwavering perseverance, and a self-sacrificing zeal which carried himthrough trials and difficulties which would have overwhelmed a man of a softer mould and a milder type of character. His whole career, as recorded by himself at the request of Mr. Wesley, was marked by many incidents illustrative of the providence and grace of God, so frequently displayed in the early history of Me...

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