Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire: with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county.Coleman, Thomas
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Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire: with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county.
Coleman, Thomas
Clergy -- England -- Northamptonshire; Independent churches -- England -- Northamptonshire; Puritans -- England -- Northamptonshire
Mr. Hyatt was the son of the Rev. Charles Hyatt, of Shadwell, London. He
was born in the year 1805. Trained in the fear of God, he resolved, on
leaving school, to devote himself to studies preparatory to the
Christian ministry. Although but fifteen years of age when he formed
this resolution, yet he was eligible for admission into Wymondley
College, under the auspices of the trustees of Mr. Coward, and
accordingly he entered there in 1820, under the patronage of Dr.
Collyer. He honourably occupied six years in his studies, and then
became the pastor of the Church at Northampton.
He was strongly urged by his father to resign his charge at Northampton,
to undertake the co-pastorate with him in the Church at Ebenezer Chapel,
Shadwell--the people having invited him to this office. His acquiescence
in this request proved a great source of comfort to his venerable
father, with whom he indeed laboured "as a son with the father" in the
Gospel. He took an active part in the labours of the British and Foreign
Sailors' Society, and, in 1844, was chosen to be its secretary. The
growing infirmities of his honoured father threw the whole weight of
pastoral duties upon him; and his frame, always delicate and prone to
disease, began to yield to the pressure of labour, which was too much
for his strength. On the 16th of June, 1846, his venerated father died;
and in nine short months after this, the happy spirit of the son was
gathered to his fathers. This change came upon him somewhat by surprise.
It is a well known symptom in pulmonary disorders, to look for
restoration to health and activity even to the last; and when,
therefore, he learned from his physician that there was no hope of his
ultimate recovery, it was to him an unexpected announcement. But it
caused him neither depression nor alarm. He was prepared for the event;
and in the last days of his sickness he was favoured with a continued
rapture of love, hope, and joy, which was never interrupted but by the
paroxysms of pain which terminated his amiable and holy life. He died in
the 42nd year of his age.
Rev. John Bennett succeeded Mr. Hyatt in the pastoral charge at Castle
Hill in June, 1833, and is the present minister of this Church. The
number of communicants at the present time is 160. There are 300
children in the Sabbath-schools.
Since the commencement of Mr. Bennett's pastorate, four young men have
gone out from this Church into the regular ministry. Three members of
the Church are almost constantly engaged in village-preaching; but there
are no stations connected with the Chapel.
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