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The love of God and neighbor is the heart of the Christian faith. Forgotten saint Samuel Pearce teaches us how to live a life faithful to the greatest commandment. Pearce was a Baptist pastor known in eighteenth-century England for his moving preaching and strong, pious character. In his short life, he supported believers in his own parish as well as in the many cities where he preached and...

them, with the blessing of God, in the exercise of their ministry. In a word, the design of this institution is to contribute what we can, towards the church and world’s having able ministers of the New Testament.”6 Significantly, Hugh Evans headed this list of goals with the ability to read the Scriptures in Hebrew and Greek. In his opinion this ability enabled the student of the Bible to avoid the problem of always having to view it through the “medium of fallible and varying translations.”7 Moreover,
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