A Preacher's Life

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVIII DR. SAMUEL NEWTH AM full of sorrow. My friend, my teacher, my comrade is dead--yea, rather, he is "alive for evermore." He was within sight of seventy-seven years of earthly life, yet to the last there was a touching youthfulness about his whole spirit and manner. In one sense he died "in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet"; in another, he was as a "shock of corn fully ripe," claimed by the Owner of the field. He has left no enemies. Those who knew him best loved him most, and amongst them I gladly reckon his students, who to-day honour him and magnify his influence in the ministry of the Gospel. From an early period he was in effect, if not in name, "Professor" Newth. Almost as soon as boyhood was past he was an acknowledged teacher and leader of young minds. An earnest student himself, he made other students earnest. At school and college alike Samuel Newth was known as an example and a stimulus. Probably there was no keener legal mind in England during the last century than the mind of Sir George Jessel, the renowned Master of the Rolls. Newth and Jessel were fellow-students at University College. They competed for the mathematical prize, and it fell to Samuel Newth. Jessel wondered that he had not succeeded in the competition, and on asking Professor De Morgan the reason, he was informed that Mr. Newth had secured fiftvfour marks and Jessel had secured thirtyseven. The instance is worth recalling as indicating a type of mind and a degree of industry within which lay the greatest possibilities of true learning. Dr. Newth was in the richest sense of the term a learned man. I know, from his own lips, that he has occupied twelve different chairs in our Congregational colleges. Dr. Newth always knew more than...