Bierton Strict And Particular Baptists, A Testimony of David Clarke

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242 me permission to rent out the other rooms. This was unfortunate for the neighbours, who did not share my interests. I took over the house and my habits continued. Shopping at Harrod’s continued. The more people I knew the more items I found to buy and so I soon filled the garage with wonderful items of value. I Take in lodgers My first tenant was a Mr Alan McCarthy, a window cleaner who had come from Manchester, although he had lived in Fareham for some time. I said he could have a room for £40 per week. I hadn’t realised, but he had been living in a motor vehicle ambulance in a garage, somewhere near Segensworth throughout that winter, and had severe problems due to possible drug abuse and his broken marriage. I discovered he was a baptised member of the Mormon Church but was not actually practising. I think he appreciated the fact that I took him, in without references. He had a few pounds, but that was all. For Alan things were not easy and I am sure he felt a bit like Jonah (a character from the Bible) as things started to go wrong for him the moment he moved in with me. In straightening out his room he attempted to nail down the floorboards only to find he put a nail through the central heating water pipe that Sunday evening and water was running everywhere. Alan felt he was to blame and found it difficult to cope with. Nevertheless I soon fixed this, to his relief. My next tenant was Sean Land (some say Private Land). He was a friend of Alan and had been living in his Ford Fiesta during the winter nights too. I think Sean also had problems with drug misuse, a broken relationship and was not able to see his daughter. Sean had a more personal problem- his music and his feet. His music was too loud and his feet smelt. It was their music, which caused the neighbours to complain to the council. We were served with noise monitoring forms and threatened with confiscation of equipment if the noise level was not kept down. It was difficult to convince these lads of the amount of noise they were making. The next inmate was Mark, another acquaintance of Alan and Sean. Occasionally Mark’s girl friends stayed the night. Joe Neve was the next to take up residence; he loved cars and was in an out of trouble with the police all the time. It was from Joe that I obtained my lovely Fiesta, a 1.4 cc engine, in nice condition, for £40. This car took the place of my car (TAN 707Y), which I bought, from a Motor Vehicle lecturer at Fareham College.


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Further Good

1min
page 338

Do Not Call A Liar A Liar

2min
page 329

Missionary Visa For the Philippines

1min
page 333

The Closure of the Bierton Chapel

3min
pages 336-337

Future Planned work

1min
page 325

The Men Who Opposed Our Work

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page 322

List Of Inmates In Opposition

1min
page 321

A Big Problem

2min
page 312

Trojan Horse Office

2min
page 317

Michael and I Meet Together

1min
page 309

Rejection By Sonlight Ministry

2min
page 311

Baguio City And Benguet Provincial Jails

1min
page 308

The Decision To Go

1min
page 298

My Redundancy at Fareham College

1min
page 296

Baptism At Sea Marks Start Of My New Life

6min
pages 286-289

Steven Murray

2min
page 285

Letter From My Brother Michael’s Letter Indicating A True Change Of Mind And Heart 281

7min
pages 282-284

Nurse Ratchet Is Jealous Of My Song

6min
pages 275-277

Argument 368 Kneeing In The Testicles

2min
page 272

I Decide Against Joining The Church

2min
page 280

Rebekah Is Born

1min
page 266

Off the Record Counseling

2min
page 271

Our First Holiday Away In France

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page 267

I Build An Extra Room Above The Garage

2min
page 264

The Fareham Registry Office

1min
page 263

Seeking to help Alan and Sam

4min
pages 255-256

Michael was set up (entrapment

2min
page 258

A Fresh Look at Christian Marriage

1min
page 254

A Wedding reception at Asda

3min
pages 260-262

Do I Need A Good Woman Or A Minder?

1min
page 249

I Move Into A Tent In The Back Garden

1min
page 248

Hastings and Backyard

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page 251

The House Court

1min
page 247

I Take in lodgers

2min
page 243

A Run in with the Police

1min
page 244

Meeting Silver Girl

1min
page 235

My Doubts About God

2min
page 226

News Of The World Article

1min
page 230

Michael Writes Home Seeking Help

2min
page 231

I Work at Fareham College

2min
page 225

Entrepreneurial Enterprise

2min
page 216

Muslims Want to Convert Me

2min
page 215

Discipline A Problem Teaching At Luton College

5min
pages 213-214

Try To Buy the Waddesdon Hill Chapel

2min
page 186

My reply to the Secretary of NATFHE

4min
pages 209-210

Meeting Richard Bolt

7min
pages 193-195

Playing “Fantastic tricks”

5min
pages 182-184

Justification

2min
page 197

Escorted out of St. Albans Abbey

2min
pages 180-181

A Spanking From the Pulpit

2min
page 168

A News Paper Report

2min
pages 175-176

Out Come Of The Meeting

2min
page 177

I write to D.B. an Anglican Vicar

8min
pages 171-174

Hats Or Head Coverings For Ladies

1min
page 167

Is Corporal Punishment Correct ?

3min
pages 169-170

I Inform The Church At Bierton Of My Felt Call To Preach

1min
page 165

Television Radio and Cassette Recorder

2min
page 179

Rescuing Michael’s Roles Royce

5min
pages 162-163

Ruth Ellis a Church Member Dies

2min
page 160

Benjamin Keeche’s Chapel

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Our move to Linslade

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page 153

A Visitor James from Scotland

1min
page 147

Mr Hill of Luton Ebenezer helps

1min
page 144

Waddesdon Hill Strict Baptist Chapel

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The Doctrines of the Gospel

1min
page 137

Contemplation On Divine Predestination

2min
page 135

I Am Made Redundant

2min
page 126

I am Poached by C. J Ward and Son

4min
pages 132-133

I Am Promoted To Service Manager

1min
page 127

Victor Prince The Crombie Over Coat

2min
page 134

My visit to Northern Ireland

1min
page 128

Acting Foolishly

2min
page 118

I was a Hyper-Calvinist

1min
page 116

Doing The Work Of An Evangelist

2min
page 115

A Bad LSD Trip

9min
pages 95-98

Pat Jones And The Bully

2min
page 94

I Am Baptized

2min
pages 110-111

Returning The Trolley Jack

1min
page 106

The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour

1min
page 91

Stolen Mini from Hemel Hempstead

1min
page 105

Newquay Here We Come

2min
page 90

Mods, Skinheads, Greasers at Yarmouth

1min
page 89

Paternity Suite

4min
pages 87-88

The Break In

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Caught By The Police

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page 79

Dr Clarke’s Case

1min
page 77

Off To Margate

1min
page 78

The Kray Twins

1min
page 74

The Great Train Robbery

1min
page 73

Carknapping (Steeling Cars

1min
page 72

My First Girl Friend

1min
page 71

The Fowler Mean our Rock Group

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A Secret

3min
pages 66-69

Steal An Amplifier Catholic Church

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page 64

Oxford Bags

2min
page 70

A Confident 15 year old

1min
page 62

Conversation On The Intercom

2min
page 61

My teenage years leaving School

1min
page 60

I Steel Push Bikes

1min
page 59

Keeping Myself Busy

1min
page 53

My Visit to Soho

1min
pages 51-52

A Stolen Crystal Set

4min
pages 48-49

The Fair Ground, Stolen Bike

2min
page 47

I Ride A 350 cc Triumph

2min
pages 54-55

My First Matchbox Radio

3min
pages 57-58

About The Author

4min
pages 25-26

Wrexham Holiday

1min
page 46

Testimony of Barry Crown

2min
page 29

Cecil The Sissy And Air Pistol

2min
page 45

The Bucks Herald Weekly Paper

1min
pages 31-32

The Problem Was Solved By A Visit From The C.I.D

2min
page 28

Congregational Sunday School

1min
page 44

I Tell My Story

12min
pages 34-42
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