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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...

that Caleb Evans delivered to the students on April 12, 1770, he forthrightly declared at the very beginning of the address that the only proper way to become “a good and useful preacher” was to “learn to be a zealous lover of Christ.”12 As a means to this end, Evans went on to recommend “reading the word of God with other practical and experimental [that is, experiential] writings, meditation, self-examination and prayer.” This attention to the cultivation of one’s own walk with God, Evans stressed,
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