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that good old stock of English Presbyterians which , though the root now may be said to wax old in the earth , and the hoar top may be somewhat bald with dry antiquity , has produced many very excellent persons , and in particular the great body of those who have been the first to hail the brightness of the rising of the star of Christian truth which has
beamed upon this land . She inherited much of the taste and feeling which belong to those who spring from the better part of this section of English descent . She had all the piety , the zeal , and the benevolence of the character ; all { its love of liberty and truth ; all its restless desire of usefulness ; all its pious reverence for the great Father of mankind . In her attention to the poor there was
all that assiduity which has been said to be peculiar to woman when she puts her hand unto the work ; yet she was not one of those whose charity rested in this one form or mode of it . She had all the kindly feeling of charity towards those
who needed not her bounty . All who have resorted to that part of the coast on which for many years she resided , and especially those who came to seek in it salubrious air , health for themselves or for their children , had reason to admire her courteous demeanour , her kind and
unaffected sympathy , and her readiness to perform for them any active services , which were only varied expressions of the Christian grace of Charity . She passed not through a long life without experiencing some of the severer trials of the world . These called for the patience and faith of the saints ; and in
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The Editor has been induced , by the desire to free the former Proprietors of the Monthly Repository , and the Unitarian body at large , from a responsibility which does not belong to them , to avow himself more distinctly than is customary with the conductors of periodical publications . He hopes that his motives in doing so will be rightly appreciated , and be thought rather to increase than diminish his claims on the kindness of those by whom the work has been hitherto supported . The increased sale of the last two Numbers strengthens his hope of encouragement in his undertaking , in which he will seek success only by means which deserve it , the impartial exercise of his judgment on the materials confided to him , and the
consistent advocacy of just and useful principles in religion , morals , education , politics , literature , and every department of human thought and interest . The Volume now commenced will be enriched , in its early numbers , by contributions , most of which have already arrived , from Drs . Carpenter , Drummond , and Hutton ; Rev . I . R . Beard , E . Higginson , W . Hincks ; Miss H . Martineau ; Rev . J . Martineau ; Miss Roacoe ; Rev . J . J . Taylor ; Rev . W . Turner , j un . | and other friends of the work , some of them well known to the literary world , whose names the Editor hopes to be allowed to mention at the conclusion of the volume . All Communications must be addressed to the Editor , at the Monthly Repository Office * 07 » Paternoster Row . A fe > v fiGtd of the New Series may be had , for a short time only , at the Office , fot the reduced price of £ 3 the six volumes *
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all these she manifested the influence on her mind of the great and holy principles of the Gospel , maintaining a perfect resignation to the wiH of her heavenly Father , and looking in faith and hope to that better time when old things are passed away and all things are become new .
The flowers of Charity and Piety wither not . She was in age what she had been in youth and the maturity of her powers . She was in death what she had been in life . In the same benevolence of spirit in which she had lived , she recalled to memory a few days before she died , and when she knew that death was near at hand , all whom she had known
with any intimacy , every relation and every friend , and she spoke something that was kind of all . She looked to the close of life when it was known by her to be near at hand , with any feeling but that of alarm . She was grateful for the many mercies which surrounded her , but she felt that she was going to a still better world , to the house of her everliving Father . All was peace and willing submission . It was like the end of the
good Cornelius , so beautifully described by Erasmus : —" She folded her hands upon her breast in the manner of a supplicant , and then closed up her eyes as one about to sleep , and with a little sigh yielded up the ghost . You would have said she had been asleep . " She died at Bath , and her remains were interred in a quiet , sequestered spot , about a mile from the city , near those of her husband and of a much-loved sister .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1832, page 71, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1804/page/71/
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