Henry Winiant Crosskey : his Life and Work. By Richard
Acland Armstrong. (Cornish Brothers, Birmingham.) — Mr. Crosskey began preaching very young, for he was little more than twenty-one when be accepted a settled charge, and he had for two years taken vacation engagements. His first charge was at Derby. One of his first acts was to protest against the "Durham Letter" of Lord John Russell. He moved to Glasgow in 1852, where he stood up, not without actual danger, against Scotch Sabbatarianism. After seventeen years' work in Glasgow he accepted a charge at Birmingham, where he spent the rest of his
life. After a considerable period of failing health, he died suddenly, almost in the act of preparing a sermon for "Congress Sunday." (It was October 1st, 1893, and the Church Congress was about to meet at Birmingham.) The notes of this discourse were found and deciphered, and have no little interest. Mr. Crosskey held a form of belief which we hold to have serious defects, but he was a man of the greatest honesty and courage, consistently faithful to his convictions, and one who did a good work in his generation.
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