Essay #10 in A Noble Company, volume 8, is on Thomas Roberts (1783-1865), by Micah Caswell.

Our generation has much to glean from the life and ministry of Thomas Roberts. Each generation must firm its commitment to the gospel of grace, as both an individual and national instrument of change. This humble, nineteenth-century Calvinistic Baptist pastor is a helpful guide not only in how the gospel can change individual lives, but also how it should through their lives change the surrounding culture. Roberts was changed by the gospel, and then went forth proclaiming it in order to change his world. --Micah Caswell