Octavius Winslow

thumb|right Octavius Winslow (August 1, 1808 – March 5, 1878), also known as "The Pilgrim's Companion", was one of the foremost evangelical preachers of the 19th Century in England and America. A Baptist minister for most of his life and contemporary of Charles Spurgeon and J.C. Ryle, he seceded to the Anglican church in his last decade. Quotes The everlasting covenant which God has made with Jesus, and through Jesus with all His beloved people, individually, is a strong ground of consolation amidst the tremblings of human hope, the fluctuations of creature things, and the instability of all that earth calls good. Midnight Harmonies (New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1853), "Songs in the Night", p. 32. There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more—there is action. […] The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look—it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help. The Sympathy of Christ with Man: Its Teaching and Consolation (London: Janes Nisbet, 1862), Preface, pp. iii–iv. Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895). Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life. P. 458. External links The Octavius Winslow Archive "Octavius Winslow" Featured in the February issue of the Free Church Witness List of Winslow's Writings Collection of Free E-Books "Morning and Evening Thoughts" Email Subscribe to a daily email devotional based on Winslow's "Morning and Evening Thoughts" Category:1808 births Category:1878 deaths Category:People from London Category:Theologians from England Category:Baptists Category:Christian leaders