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lege course , to the minister still under age , labouring statedly in the place where he had before supplied , almost immediately involved in the duties of a school and of private tuition , and in a very short time more , in the cares of a family . In June , 1803 , he marpied—Sarah-,-on-e—©¦ £ —the—daughters—o £
Mr . Marshall , of Loughborough , Leicestershire ; who , after enjoying some years of health , and being tried and proved by severe illness , was called away before him . Her death , which took place August 10 , 1827 , was simply announced in the Repository , in that manner which best accorded with the retirement of her life
and the sensitive diffidence . _ oj > Jier character . By necessity , if not through choice , home was her almost exclusive sphere ; and by those whose affections she tutored there , her memory is appropriated . The state of weakness and suffering in which she was doomed to pass the last fifteen , years of her life , was felt as a trial of
peculiar bitterness by the subject of this memoir , calculated as he was , In a peculiar manner , to enjoy and to adorn the social scenes of life , by his lively active temperament , his ready powers of conversation , and his benevolence and liberality of feeling , and invited to it by his professional position in the world . On him thus
circumstanced and thus constituted , the domestic affliction fell with peculiar weight . The connexion with the Stockporfc congregation appears to have been productive of uninterrupted and mutual good-will and satisfaction , during nine years , and the letter in which he announced his intention to accept an
invitation to Derby , exhibits a conflict of the most powerful and honourable , feelings , and declares his motives with the most ingenuous unreserve . A consciousness of want of time for private study and for pulpit preparation , and the hope that a removal might afford more opportunity , appear to have been the principal inducement . His growing and increas-
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ing family ( to which Ills widowed mother had been added by his brother ' s death ) was another reason ; for , though increase of congregational income was not offered , he hoped to find the locality of Derby more favourable to the continued success of
his—boarding-s ^ hool-i—w-hiGliMwasboth jilaces his main dependence . The removal from Stockport took place at Christmas , 1810 . With the residence at Derby , the writer ' s own recollections first begin to acquire distinctness . Mr . Higginson found here an increased rather
than a diminished demand upon his time arid labours in professional and scholastic arid public duties . Or , if his removal was a gain in these respects , there had , indeed , / been need of it . The acceptability of his ministerial services was proved by the gradual but continued increase of the
congregation . For nineteen years he conducted a boarding and day school ; andsometimes ^ had underhis care-up - wards of thirty boys at once . He had , besides , occasional classes of young persons in his library . His talents for public business , his punctuality , method , clearness and dispatch , were put too constantly into
requisition ; but he seemed unable to decline or resist any solicitation to be useful , whatever the sacrifice of private ease or comfort . But of all public institutions , lie was most devoted to ; the interests of- those -b y which knowledge is made accessible id the many . A Lancasterian school and a Mechanics' Institute may each refer its existence to his active services
most particularly , in connexion with the essential but not all-efficient support of tjbe : ^^ jilei ^^^ genei ^ s , ; and each had ht personal services as secretary year after year . Not very long before the commencement of his fatal illness , the members of the Mechanics' Institute testified their sense of the value of his services by the presentation of a handsome service of plate . He was an earnest , advocate of Sunday-schools ; and his zeal in this
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14 U UNITARIAN CHRONICLE *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1832, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1817/page/12/
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