<p>THE MINISTRY OF HOME<br><br>Octavius Winslow (1 August 1808 ? 5 March 1878), also known as "The Pilgrim's Companion", was a prominent 19th-century evangelical preacher in England and America. A Baptist minister for most of his life and contemporary of Charles Spurgeon and J. C. Ryle, he seceded to the Anglican church in his last decade.<br><br>Octavius's mother, Mary Forbes (1774 ? 1854) had Scottish roots but was born and raised in Bermuda an...