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    himself but the simplest fare , aided by their keeping very early hours , peeing little company , and-tfhe admirable ? family arrangements of Jtfrs . L . whose two domestics ,

    ( one man and one maid , ) moved « s it were by clock-work ; aided further by her own personal activity and domestic knowledge , not only supplied the power of doing all thi « - but the house , the garden , the

    adjoining premises and churchyard , which my father had previously planted with ornamental trees ^ and adorned with woodbines , laburnums , roses and jessamines , were kept with such per feet neatness that the whole

    appearance was that of cheerfulness and comfort , approaching some . what to taste and elegance . The 'late ' Mr . Mason , so highly appreciated as a poet , and who had been an intimate college companion of Ur . Lindsey ' s , on making them a ^ visit was much struck with this ,

    and was disposed to celebrate my friend as a perfect model for the wife of a country clergyman . But this was not the field , adjrnirable as were her labours in

    itwhere the singular talents of Mrs . Lindsey , and her strict adherence ta principle , were most conspicuous , 'Far froni ever urging her exemplary husband to accept of the splendid offers of great church preferment , which were made to him fr © m

    time to time by the Northumberland and Muntington families , one of which offers in particular , would have led immediately to an Irish bisnoprick , she entered fully into the views which compelled his refuel :

    and when , on hi ? recovery from a Violent rheumatic fever , in which lie had continued twenty successive ni g hts without sleep , and in which fchfe had nursed him with an activi-

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    ty and judgment peculiarly her own , ' he said to her , that one thing only had disturbed his rninjil , the delinquency , as he deerrifed it , of continuing to rniiiisteV in ' a

    church so far removed frorn gos - pel simplicity— Then relinquish it , " was her noble re ^ l y ; u toftr wants are not many ; arid , in sortie way or other , the providence ^ 6 f God will enable us to supply them . " At that tirne orsdon aft £ r ,

    the resolution of re ^ iriiig from the church was taken , although it was not put in execution till nearly two years after , owing to sonie Jfeculiar circumstances , which tftis is not the place to detail . 'They

    continued , however , to make eracontinued , however , to make gradual preparation , but not by diminishing their usual charities , or withholding other acts of kindness , in which their whole income waa

    usually expended ; so far otherwise , indeed , that during the last ye ^ r , the sin all-pox having been very fatal in that district , they incurred the additional e ^ pence of inoculating all the children of the poor in their own large village , and in the neighbouring hamlets ,

    most of whom Mrs . Lindsey attended in person , and with so much success , that she did not lose a single patient . I shall not here attempt to detail the various results of this magnanimous resolution , the effect Of

    an elevation of mind so exceedingly uncommon , more especially as I hofje the time is not distant when the whole transaction ^ together with its important conse * qiiences , will be presented to the 1

    public by a much ablerpen . I must n 6 t , however , omit sayfftg , that every necessary preparation for the intended sale of furniture , plate and china , to defray the eft .

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    112 Memoir of Mrs . Lindsey .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 112, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/48/