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comfort during his illness , and received ^ considerable attention from several of his friends , which he felt with peculiar iensibility . No complaint or dissatisfaction were expressed through the whole of his affliction . He suffered
touch , and suffered patiently . He was indeed tranquil to the last , and died on Tuesday morning , December 3 ^ 1805 , aged twenty-eight years . Thomas Pine , —On Tuesday , December 17 , 1805 , died at
Maiditone , Mr . Thomas Pine , in the seventysecond year of his age . His funeral sermon was preached the Sunday after his interment * at the Presbyterian meeting-house , by Mr . John Evans , of Worship-street , from Acts i . 11 . "Ye
men of Galilee ^ why stand ye gazing up into heaven ? this same Jesus which is taken up into heaven , shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven ! 5 > The hearers were numerous and attentive on this solemn occasion ; for the character and virtues of the deceased were well known and
duly estimated . Having in early life carefully examined the scruptures , his religious principles were rational and manly , an 4 he steadily adhered to them through life without censuring or condemning those who were otherwise
minded , and these principles were rendered by Him uniformly subservient to the great purposes of practical religion . Quiet and unassumingmhis own demeanour towards others , he was the firm friend of peace , an da sincere well-wisher
to the happiness of mankind ; his were the irnld , unostentatious virtues , those which Christianity in a more especial manner cherishes and promotes—little regarded h y the world , bin of great value in the sight of God ! To his dwn relatives ^ th whom he was immediately
connected , he proved the tender father * nd the faithful friend ; ever anxious for their welfare , and always disposed to do whatever might contribute to their comfort and prosperity . In this respect indeed his conduct was so exemplary , that it deserves universal imitation .
Being himself unincumbered with the cares of a family , the widow and orphan children of a beloved brother * vere the object * of his peculiar regard
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and affection . He expired without a groan . Such was his acquiescence in his final moments , such his hope of a blessed immortality . Dean Kirwan , the celebrated preacher , at Mount Pleasant , near Dublin , whose loss the numerous
charitable institutions of that city will long feel and lament . Many of them owe their existence and property to his unparalleled exertions , where ^ regardless of his infirm state of health , to use the language of Mr . Grattan ^ ** in feeding the Tamp of charity , he
almost exhausted the lamp of life . " Endowed with talents beyond the common lot of mankind ; gifted with powers of eloquence which formed , as it were , an era in the annals of
pulpit oratory , he devoted those talents and that eloquence to the service of God , and of the poor . Iii the cause of religion , impressive ,, commanding , overwhelming , vice shrunk appalled from the restless tor * rent , and trembled at its own defor *
mity . In the cause of charity , energetic , persuasive , irresistible , he turned the master passions at his will , now roused with dread , now melted with compassion , whilst every bosom , glowed with reanimated feeling , and the sweet influence of benevolence throbbed in every pulse , and poured front every eye . This distinguished ornament of * the church , was
originally a Roman Catholic priest , but his good sense enabled him to see thfe errors of popery , and he became a zealous adherent and powerful supporter of the protestant faith . His funeral was attended by an immense concourse of the most respectable
citizens , including almost , every friend to humanity and genius , in Dublin . The children of the several charity schools walked in procession ; among the rest , one hundred and fifty female orphans , belonging to Mrs . Latouche ' s school , whose cause * he has
so often and so eloquently pleaded , and who , in him , may be said a second time to have lost a father . No less than 14 OOI . wa » collected at a single sermon preached by him for that institution *
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Obituary . 51
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1806, page 51, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1720/page/51/
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