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Alston, Nathaniel
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
an English Wesleyan minister, was born at Preston, Lancashire, in 1812. He was converted young; became a local preacher at the age of sixteen; entered the ministry in 1834; became a supernumerary after forty-one years of active service; retired to Fareham, and died of paralysis, Aug. 7, 1878. He was a close student, an original, evangelical preacher, a man of penetration, although, timid. See Minutes of Conf. (Lond. 1879), p. 12.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Alston, Nathaniel'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​a/alston-nathaniel.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.