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    with ft enabled him to modulate with considerable advantage and success a strong and commanding voice . In his happiest moments

    ( for inequality is the lot of man ) his solemnity of manner and propriety of gesture are said to have been remarkably impressive , and eminently suited to the addresses of this place .

    But he possessed still better claims upon public and private esteem , than any which merely outward advantages conferred . Every person ' s testimony is given with cheerfulness to the excellent

    designs " and affections of his heart . Substantial worth of character indeed can seldom be the subject of any difference of opinion . What a man ' s intellectual

    qualifications and attainments are , every one is not capable of judging ; and caprice as well as ignorance may here betray us into error . But we can easily determine , from observation on the tenour of his

    life , whether his soul glows or not with love to God , to the Saviour and to his fellow men . According to the confession of all , the talents of Mr . Ed . vards were

    adorned by intentions undeniably pure , generous and friendly , by the simplicity of his heart and the unbending integiity of his life . I have already referred to that self-denying benevolence , in favour oi afflicted poverty , which

    was a leading feature in his character . Many proofs of it have fallen wjthin my knowledge : the bUssing of the poor and of the fatherless descended upon him , find the widow ' s heart he made to sing for joy . Nor was his simpath y a casual transitory feeling .

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    With the Warmth of powerful emotion it had likewise the uniformity of principle : and when he gave almost beyond his ability , to the needv and the bereaved * ¦ ¦

    * v ^ » . *** . * m x ^ ¦ w * \ 4 Y * - * M .-M vt *¦ * * ¦* - * m - ^ * ^* % J * s v x- ^~* religious advice and consolation accompanied the boon . Happj will it have been if they were not communicated in vain !

    Strong expressions of fervent piety abound in the letters which he wrote on these occasions , and in others which , at different times , he addressed to his friends . He

    was plainly in the habit of considering God as the supreme object of his obedience . There was scarcely any state of his mind in which this was not the thought

    that mobt readily presented itself to him , or in which devout confidence forsook him ; and he deemed very highly of the importance and benefit of prayer .

    With these sentiments and views it is not surprising that he was further distinguished by superiority to the world . Its honours , its riches , its pleasures , its

    treacherous and bewitching arts , could not have bribed , and I am persuaded , its blackest arid most threatening frowns could not have terrified him into deviation from

    what , according to the best * information of his judgment , he conceived to be the straight path of truth and righteousness and peace .

    Of his general maxims and principles of life , a pretty accu * rate knowledge may be gained from the very seasonable counsels ; which on his removal from

    Birmingham , he addressed to the young people of this society * : and 1 have been favoured with <*

    * Appendix , No . % .

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    696 Memoir of the Rev . John Edwards .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 696, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1706/page/4/