The Gospel Magazine

228 The Gospel Magazine
College, Cambridge (October, 1886), he graduated, and was ordained
in September, 1889, to the Circus Church, Landport, to be a fellowhelper
to his beloved uncle, the Rev. J. C. MARTIN, who has laboured
so long and successfully at that favoured corner of the vineyard.
" During his residence for theological training at Ridley Hall, he owes
much, under God, to the godly influence and faithful ministry of the
Rev. H. C. G. MouLE, whose sympathy and interest after the spiritual
welfare of the students is so well known. It was during one of his
college vacations that Mr. MARTIN and a fellow-student devoted their
time and talents in a desire to visit their fellow-creatures in the
villages and hamlets of a neighbouring county, and to carry to them
the glad tidings of salvation. An interesting account of this journey
in caravan was given in Old Jonathan, during the Editorship of the
late dear Dr. DOUDNEY; and staying here and there, these
devoted young men would be found reading, singing, preaching,
praying, and distributing tracts and sound literature amongst the poor
inhabitants of these places. Any of our readers who still have their
volume of Old Jonathan for 1888 will be interested to turn to it and
re-read the account of Mr. MARTIN'S mission tour. In 1891 Mr.
MARTIN was married to Miss FRA 'CES GRIFFITHS, second daughter of
the Rev. A. GRIFFITHS, J.P., Rector of Llanelly, Breconshire, who
gladly joins him in all his work, and is a devoted home missionary.
" Much to the regret of Mr. MARTIN'S many friends at Landport,
but at the same time, it must be said, to the satisfaction of many
of the late Rev. F. HOARE'S congregation, he received the appointment
to Trinity Church, Derby, in 1893, where with all his energy
and zeal he is desiring to continue in the lines of his faithful
predecessor, who laboured for so many years to contend for the faith
once delivered unto the saints."
There was a good congregation at Trinity Church, Derby, where
Mr. Martin ministered until the year 1901. A considerable number
of the members were well taught in the doctrines of grace, doubtless
as a result of the previous Vicar's teaching (the Rev. Francis Hoare).
They were able at once to notice the difference if any preacher of
Arminian tendencies happened on any occasion to occupy the pulpit.
In 1901 Mr. Martin became Vicar of Crookes, Sheffield, and in 1916
he became Rector of Oulton, near Lowestoft. Here he continued to
minister until his illness in 1931 when he resigned.
His first wife died at Oulton, and subsequently Mr. Martin married
again. Our tender sympathy goes out to his sorrowing widow and
to his grown-up children.
MISS FRANCIS L. KNOX.
ON March 3rd last, Miss F. L. Knox, of The Cottage, Edith Weston,
Oakham, Rutland, was called to her heavenly Home. We had not
the privilege of knowing her personally, but in October, 1930, we
received a letter from her saying, " Will you please send me four copies