	In 1844 he was invited to preach at Farnham, where a group of people aligned to no particular denomination met informally for worship in a loft above a building. They asked him to take charge of the cause, and he formed it into a formal church along Strict Baptist lines. About a year later Samuel left and took up a pastorate at Hitchin. He went on to write "The Triumph of Christ on the Cross, as God-man over sin and the sinner; to which is prefixed, an account of the early life, conversion, and call to the ministry of the Author" in 1857, and was associated for many years with a Strict Baptist cause at Sleaford.