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MORGAN, Rev. James

Rev. Morgan was born in 1830 in England and died in Dundas, on the 4th of February, 1858, in the twenty-eighth year of his age and in the third of his ministry, after an illness of nearly two months.

He was a native of England, and the son of Mr. John Morgan, of French Road, near Kidderminster. To the fifteenth year of his age he manifested no concern for his soul, and was, therefore, in great danger of being led astray by a wicked associate. He was not without friendly warnings and the strivings of the Holy Spirit. He began to reflect.

At the same time he was pressingly invited to attend a class and engaged to do so; and, though he afterwards regretted having made the promise, yet he went. On that very night, however, the arrows of truth pierced his soul. He was in deep distress during the following week, till the next class night. At that time he was enabled to believe in Christ, when he received a full assurance of God's pardonong mercy. From that hour he went on his way rejoicing in God.

In his last illness he showed that he possessed a genuine piety and a clear experience of personal salvation. His life had been characterized by simplicity of purpose and as a gospel minister, by an ardent and well-tempered zeal for God and the properity of His Church.

...from the minutes of the 1854 Wesleyan Methodist Conference in Toronto C.W.

Charges: Received on trial in 1855, 1855 Woodstock, 1856 Aylmer, 1857 Ingersoll, 1858 Dundas


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