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tions . Let the young learn by this * xample ta seek not their reward in this world . Here we see how truly it is said of man , " He cometh up like a flower , and is cut down . " By obedience to their parents , and kindness towards their
relatives ; by diligence , and piety , and virtue , let them adorn their useful spheres , that their parents may never think of them but with affection and delight , and that the gates of the grave may lead them to a brighter scene , where separation and death shall be known no more .
B . P . S . When Mr . Worthington left Leicester , he was removed from the personal observation and acquaintance of the writer : on which account he has obtained permission to subjoin an extract from a funeral sermon for Mr .
Worthington , delivered at Manchester , by his friend and fellow-student , the Rev . J . R . Beard , at his Chapel , Green Gate , Saiford , whose observations , being those of an eye-witness , will come with greater weight and authority . " On his entrance at the Manchester
College , York , he was found to possess a degree of information and developement of mind wWch are rarely enjoyed by the students at the commencement of their collegiate course . During his residence at the College , his application was not only vigorous but sustained r and
his exertions were crowned with entire success . For depth , variety , and accuracy of information , very few persons of his own age would endure a comparison with him . But it is most pleasing to recall to one ' s mind those moral qualities which endeared to him the hearts of
all his companions in study . He possessed a sweetness of disposition , a delicate and cultivated sensibility , a tender regard to others' feelings , a solicitude for the welfare and happiness of his associates , combined with an oblivion of self , an equanimity of temper , and a warmth of affection , which rendered his conduct a model of imitation to his
companions , whilst the purity of his bosom and the rectitude of his motives , his ardent piety atid profound humility , gave promise to ail who knew him of exemplary excellence and success in the sacred office of a Christian teacher j and threw a charm and a finish over his
demeanour amiu the intercourses of a college life . These were the virtues which secured him the affection of all the fraternity with whom for a time he was associated . Through them he lived in the college beloved , and left it regretted :
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and when he went forth to eater upon the career which has so soon and ' so painfully terminated , not a heart was there that did not bid him ' God speed , ' au . 4 scarcely a tongue that did not utter its fervent prayer for his success and happiness . We have said that he received an early dedication to the Christian ministry , and through the whole
period of his education he kept constantly before his mind the grand end and object of his life . He devoted himself to the ministry because he loved its duties ; his whole soul was engaged to the service of God ; and many a delightful hour , though now mournful to
remember , has the preacher spent with him in discoursing on the duties and pleasures of religion , and the duties , pleasures and difficulties of the pastoral office . From principle he was a firm believer in the supremacy and essential goodness of the great God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ—but estimated
opinions by their tendency to promote pious emotion and holy practice . In common with many others he lamented the comparative indifference to the claims of truth and duty which attach to the great body of Unitarians in England , and , if his life had been spared until his influence / was corroborated , he would have been highly efficient in bringing
about a more intense and heartfelt apprehension of religious truths , and a more vigorous and consistent maintenance of them , than now prevails amongst us . As it is , his influence in the , college was highly valuable in . countenancing and nourishing a religions tone of thinking and feeling , and in the e £$ a ~ blishment of a society , among the senior
divinity students , for the support of missionary preaching in the vicinHyoof York , To this society , which ^ e was a chief means of instituting , he invariably gave his best support , and thus lent jus aid to the promotion and perpetuation of an institution to which not only the
neighbourhood of the college owes much happiness , but many of the students also much of the success which , may hiay # attended , or shall attend ! , upon their ministry . These details of his college life may appear long and dvsprppMrti ^ - ate , but it is pleasing to wig to , dwell upon them . ... , ? ,,
** The period of his ministry was $ 0 short , that I love to contemplate : 14 m ( ta « a student , and to revert to tfays vy ^ cU were full of tranquil happiness and 4 ^ - ceptive hope . At length , however ,: the period arrived when he was to enter upon his office . The days of preparation
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760 Obituary j * -fttv * «/ flA * Hugh Worthington .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1827, page 760, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1801/page/48/
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