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pearecl in him a most amiable sympathy and concern joined to his best efforts to relieve and ^ console . Under this part of his character we must not omit a feature which might
seem to belong rather to his man . ners , but we give it a place here as expressive of fine feelings and « , good heart , —he was one of the f < gw that prosperity and elevation improved . His talents were various and excellent , a clear
perception , nice discrimination , accurate judgment , quick in discovering , yet cautious „ in admitting proofs . He was seldom deceived in his conclusions ; his habits of
thinking were close , yet sufficiently enlarged for the purposes of method and arrangement , in which fow excelled him . It is therefore to be lamented that he could
never be prevailed on to undertake any-literary work for the public ; had he done so , it would have been a much better eulogium on him than the present inadequate attempt , but although those friends who were best acquainted with his talents ancl resources are
convinced he would have satisfied his readers ^ yet he was either too modest or too fastidious ever to please himself . For his manners they were naturally polite and engaging ; he was fond of socie ty , and
frequently enlivened conversation with delicate touches of pleasantry and writ . * His company vr $ s Courted T > y persons of tfre highest dignity arid station , wh , Ose good opinion / he never Tailed to conqflu ajej always paying a , proper defer * er ice . to their rank , yet wftli . qut ever forgetting what became him as a gentleman , a clergyman andi a 8 cljipl € k- ~^ i ri trijrfh , his society was sought after b y every "class . There w , gent ; i ^ ness bad playfulness
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in his manner , . which won oxt those who had n © t talents or taste for his higher acquirements , and without laying a restraint on his
natural manners , he equally distinguished himself , entertaining his humble parisiiibners at Ardstran , or the Viceregal Court at the Provost ' s house . Among his intimate friends he used to unbend
with the sweetest familiarity , forgetting all reserve and yielding to the overflowings of an affectionate heart . Whoever had the happiness of knowing him well , can never forget those delightful scenes while life and memory hold their seat . But let us console ourselves
with the sublime hope that he is gone to join an infinitely happier society of just men made perfect , and to become partaker of the highest and most lasting pleasure *
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1811 , Dec . 15 ^ at the Cape of Good Hope , after an illness of eight days , Dr . ^ VanderkemPj a distinguished missionary to the Hottentots , and other nations of
South Africa , under the patronage of the Missionary Society of Lon - don . Dr . Vanderkernp was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh , had . practised some years as a physician in Holland , and had attained considerable
eminence in his professionA At that period of life when the desire of rqpose induces most men to Ye * tire from scenes of activity and labour , this venerable man was
impelled by feelings of the purest benevolence and most exalted philanthropy , to undertake a fission to some of th , e most ignorant ^ un * cultivated and unpromising of inankind , and cheerfully ? to \ # sc « pose himself to ajj the fatigue * and privations whiqh auch oft at ^
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Obituary . —I ) r * Vanderkemp . _ ? ; l ^ jjj
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 189, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/53/
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