Title: the promised presence of christ with his people a source of consolation under the most painful bereavements a sermon delivered at the baptist meeting-house, cannon street birmingham on lords-day evening october 20 1799 occasioned by the death of the rev samuel pearce an who died 10 october in the 34 year of his ageto which is prefixed an oration delivered at the grave october 16 1799 by the rev j brewer