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prosperity . He was an example of undeviating regularity of attendance on public worship ; although he usually resided at the distance of twelve miles from his fellow-worshippers . Conviction , as well as habit , rendered him steadfast in a practice , the neglect of which is . more iajuriojJis ^ ta ^ ersonal . domestic , and social religion , than careless thinkers may imagine . 4 Through a few successive years ,
Mr . John Scott declined to take an important civil office , under circumstances that excluded from office all conscientious Nonconformists . He would not consent to he sheriff of Worcestershire until after the repeal of the Test Laws ( 1830-31 . ) Some extracts from his letter , upon the occa * sion , to the Secretary of State for the Home Department , are made in the thirteenth volume of this work . Nor
is it unlikely that the part which he took contributed to hasten the abolition of the Sacramental Test . The year of his shrievalty was arduous ^ and he discharged its duties with eminent satisfaction to the county , and honour to himself .
* For a long period he was accustomed to conduct a religious service , on Sunday evenings , in a school-room , erected near to his own premises at Stourbridge ; a number of children , together with their parents , and some of their neighbours , forming the audience . It was an occupation in which he found much delight , and
which he had just reason for considering as signally beneficial . His inducement to engage and persevere in it , seems to have arisen from his early zeal and care in visiting Sundayschools , and may be mentioned as an instance of the high collateral advantages produced by " that excellent class of seminaries .
In the relations of domestic life , and of society , nor least in those which an English country gentleman sustains , Mr . Scott was greatly and deservedly esteemed . His favourite employment was the plantation of his grounds ; and this pleasing and use-
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ful art he exercised with superior taste . 4 Some decline of health he had for many months experienced ; but nothing like serious and imminent danger was apprehended . He expired almost instantaneously , in hiscarriage , on the road from Stourbridge to Barr . This sudden and fatal issue of a latent disease , could not be painful to himself ; while to his surviving family and friends it has been most solemnly impressive . '— Christian Reformer .
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On the 10 th February , at Cirencester , aged sixty-six , Mr . W . Search , senior . In saying a few words on the character of this worthy individual , the writer would observe , first , that he . was much esteemed by his fellow-townsmen , of all sects and parties , as was evinced by the general concern which was manifested in the
place , on the occasion of his death , and the crowded congregation which attended the Unitarian chapel ,, when his funeral sermon was preached . Nor was this respect for his memory more than his due ; for Mr . Search was an . active and useful member of society , and a generous contributor to every object of public utility or charity in the town . That he was actuated
by Christian principle , and serious religious impressions , was evinced by his whole life . As a member of the Unitarian Society at Cirencester , he was a liberal supporter of Us interests , and was particularly remarkable for the constancy and punctuality with which he attended , during both parts of the Lord ' s day , its public divine services . This regard for the ordinances and instrumental duties of
religion , he carried into private life . He regularly kept up in" his own family the good old pious custom of domestic worship ; and lie enjoined on those immediately around him , and daily practised himself , the unostentatious and peculiarly Christian duty of closet devotion . Not to lengthen this article , it may be truly said , that Mr . Search was a mm of high integrity , active beneven
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1832, page 46, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1809/page/14/
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