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HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.
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So ? ne Account of the lute Rev , Samuel Can / . SAMUEL GARY was bom at Newbury Port , Massachusetts , in tbe year 1785 , the son of the Rev . Thomas Gary , of that place , a
minister much respected and beloved . He entered the University of Cambridge , New England , in the year 1801 , and graduated in the year 1805 . At Cambridge / he studied divinity for three years , preaching occasionally . In November , 1808 , he was called to
preach on probation at King ' s Chapel , Boston , and after six weeks was ordained joint pastor of the church with Dr , Freeman , January 1 st , 1800 . In 1811 , lie was married to the lady who survives him and who has furnished these brief particulars .
The following is an extract from the Funeral Discourse for Mr . Cary , delivered at Essex-Street Chapel , on Sunday , the twenty-ninth of October , 1815 , by the Rev . Thomas Belsham :
" Those of you who are acquainted with the Memoirs of Mr . Liiidsey , may probably recollect that about ten years after liis happy settlement in this place , a correspondence commenced between that venerable man ,
aad the minister of the episcopalian church at Boston , in New England . This excellent and respectable clergyman , who had lately been appointed to officiate in that chapel which was byway of distinction called Ihe Kings Chapel , and in which antecedently
to the Revolution the governor and principal officers of the state usually attended divine worship according to the rites of the Church of England , informed Mr . Liudsey that tlie
majority of his congregation had adopted Unitarian principles ; and that although in deference to the prepossessions of some of the older members , he was prevented from introducing the Liturgy which was used in Essex
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Street ; the society had nevertheless consented to a reformation of the public liturgy so as to render il nearly if not completely Unitarian . From that time this able and eloquent confessor and teacher of evangelical truth communicated occasionally to his
venerable mend the pleasing intelligence of the gradual progress which the grand doctrine of the One God and Father of all , the sole object of religious worship , was making in the American States , and particularly in New England . And these favourable accounts have been from time to
time confirmed by the testimouy of young ministers of different denominations ; all of them men of exemplary characters , and some of them distinguished by transcendant talents , who have successively visited this
country from the United States . It is a pleasing and undoubted fact , that in many of the most respectable religious societies in the New England States the worship of God is conducted upon Unitarian principles , and that great numbers of tlie enlightened inhabitants are in the strictest and
properest sense of the word , Unitarians , whose character reflects the greatest honour upon their profession , being distinguished by the excellence of their example as eminently as by the simplicity and purity of their faith .
This interesting correspondence continued till the increasing infirmities of Mr . Liudsey brought it to a period . And soon after the decease of that venerable man , bis respectable
correspondent , Dr . rreeman , after twenty years active service in the church * finding his health beginning to decline , requested and obtained from bis numerous and flourishing congregation the assistance of a colleague . That colleague was the Reverend Samuel C « ry , a young man of di * -
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No . CXX . ] DECEMBER , 1815 . [ Vol . X
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VOL . x . 5 B
History And Biography.
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1815, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1767/page/1/
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