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Mrs. B. Bowles. Qnffiday, The 22nd Of Ap...
age . Her understanding was excellent : the powers of her mind had not been well cultivated in early life , but she supplied the deficiency by an ardent desire for
information , a strict attention which suffered nothing to pass without observation , and an unwearied application which could be deterred by no difficulties in the pursuit of what she wished to acquire . Not a moment of her life was
unemployed : she was always actively engaged either in her domestic duties , or in some useful pursuit . As a mother she was exemplary , and never suffered her own ease or indulgence to stand
in competition with the good of her children ; her greatest pleasure lay in promoting their improvement , and contributing towards their present and lasting w el fare . As a wife , he who has felt her loss can best appreciate
her value . But surely warm affection producing a perfect union of pursuits , hopes and wishes , fidelity which neither prosperity nor adversity could shake , good sense , which in all difficulties made the husband certain of
finding bis most faithful friend and judicious adviser in his wife , are qualities which cannot be soon forgotten or lightly estimated . As a friend she was firm and constant , ^ Though 3 he keenly felt any appearance of neglect she was
\ yhpjjad long wished to see her husband so employed , and to whose advice and judicious re . murks he is greatly indebted . Not long after this , she was attacked by a malignant disease , which gradually undermined her constitution and put an end to her existence in the 41 st year of her
Mrs. B. Bowles. Qnffiday, The 22nd Of Ap...
easily appeased and quickly r &?* conciled . She was a lover , of truth , and had an utter aversion to slander and idle tattling . H ^ r means were confined , but as far as she was able she was liberal
and charitable . The writer of this does not mean to assert that she was free from faults ; but her only faults were those of temper , which it was her daily employment to correct f and it was her constant aim to grow better every day she livecj .
She had been educated m a strict adherence to the doctrines and rites of the established church , and maintained her early impressions in a profession , which is supposed , by many to be
unfavourable to religious habits ; but she had maintained them , as many others do , without examining thp foundations on which they , re ^ ed * On her acquaintance with bfr husband , who had embraced
ijnitarianism , she was induced to in * quire into the truth of those principles in which she had been educated . She read and judged for herself , and the result was , a iirm belief that Unitarianism is tWe
doctrine of the gospel . She feard the scriptures daily , arid nev £ r read them without makitig ofoservations that strengthened her conviction . As her end dtfcw
nigh , she felt tae greatest satisfaction in the opinions she hfrd embraced . —But a few days before her death , which she felt ^ vas rapidly approaching , she estptessed the most heartfelt gratitude for
having been led to enl ^ rtith sufch views of the dWitie disp ^ t i & ations as linade the great truths of religion appear to her ' clear and iritelligible > which before had seemed wrapped up in Clouds and iriystery .
R^* * -*• 36£ Obituary. — Mrs. B. Bowles...
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 364, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/44/
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