Samuel John Mills

His body was thrown into the open air, but his soul was received into the everlasting mansions of his heavenly Creator.

The Reverend Robert Samuel.

This gentleman was minister of Bradford, Suffolk, where he industriously taught the flock committed to his charge, while he was openly permitted to discharge his duty.

He was first persecuted by Mr.

Foster of Copdock near Ipswich, a severe and bigoted persecutor of the followers of Christ, according to the truth in the Gospel.

Notwithstanding Mr. Samuel was ejected from his living, he continued to exhort and instruct privately, nor would he obey the order for putting away his wife, whom he had married in King Edward's reign, but kept her at Ipswich, where Foster by warrant surprised him by night with her.

After being imprisoned in Ipswich jail, he was taken before Dr. Hopton, Bishop of Norwich, and Dr. Dunnings, his chancellor, two of the most sanguinary among the bigots of those days.

To intimidate the worthy pastor, he was in prison chained to a post in such a manner that the weight of his body was supported by the points of his toes.

Eventually, he went to live with the president of Yale.

And while he was living there, he met a man named Samuel Mills.

Samuel Mills had been the leader of the Haystack prayer meeting several years earlier, and he had given his life to the cause of foreign missions.

Samuel Mills invited Henry Obukaya to come live with him in Torringford, Connecticut.

Samuel took Henry under his wings, got him work, and introduced him to people who would teach him math, geography, and other essentials of life.

Henry was a hard worker and a fast learner.

After a long, difficult struggle to understand how he could be saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, Henry Obukaya was born again.

From then on, he spoke of little else but returning to the island of Owyhee to tell everybody about Jesus.

Their purpose was to discuss missionary William Carey's small booklet, An Inquiry into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathen, a controversial publication that put the responsibility of world evangelism on all believers.

The leader of the group was Samuel Mills, who laid out a radical idea, sending missionaries to distant lands with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Moreover, he proposed that the five of them be among those to go.

The group was so absorbed in their discussion that they failed to notice an approaching storm.

His body was thrown into the open air, but his soul was received into the everlasting mansions of his heavenly Creator.

The Reverend Robert Samuel.

This gentleman was minister of Bradford, Suffolk, where he industriously taught the flock committed to his charge, while he was openly permitted to discharge his duty.

He was first persecuted by Mr.

Foster of Copdock near Ipswich, a severe and bigoted persecutor of the followers of Christ, according to the truth in the Gospel.

Notwithstanding Mr. Samuel was ejected from his living, he continued to exhort and instruct privately, nor would he obey the order for putting away his wife, whom he had married in King Edward's reign, but kept her at Ipswich, where Foster by warrant surprised him by night with her.

After being imprisoned in Ipswich jail, he was taken before Dr. Hopton, Bishop of Norwich, and Dr. Dunning's his chancellor, two of the most sanguinary among the bigots of those days.

To intimidate the worthy pastor, he was in prison chained to a post in such a manner that the weight of his body was supported by the points of his toes.