Birmingham Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 81, 2 October 1895, Page 2

Birmingham Notes.

(from our own correspondent.) The Rev. W. Keall, of Sandon, preached on Sunday evening in the Church here. The subject chosen for his discourse was Jacob's well-known dream of the ladder froni earth to Heaven. Thp. preacher showed God's wonderful love for mankind, his presence where least expected, for here was a place named Luz, which means forsaken by God, and yet it was the road to Heaven. A true delineation of Jacob's character was giyen, and the lives of many wordly men described who came to this colony poor and prospered, and yet gave nothing to God in return. These men worked in the Old Land for about twelve shillings a week, and weye then better men than now with all their prosperity, Mr Keall seems to have seen between fifty and sixty summers erect in his bearing, and has a powerful voice, speaks distinctly, in a conversational and impressive style, whom it is a pleasure to listen to for his simplicity and sincerity. The Church will not go back while such fearless men exist, the type of man whom Shakspere had in mind when he wrote — Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty ; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellions liquors in my blood ; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility ; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter Frosty, but kindly.