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which is excellent and praiseworthy ; and the examples which we hate the best opportunity of admiring and imitating should be those which we
present most constantly to our view . 4 In the affecting circumstances in which we are now placed , my Christtarrfrfemlsfirtehoves-me-to-reiiiind you of the connexion of this Society with one who was accustomed for so
many years to minister in this place in holy things , and of his works and labours among you . And here , if it were necessary , I have ample room to enlarge on the merits of your deceased pastor . I have a wide field in
which I might range and admonish you of the activity and energy with which he discharged his public duties , and of the zeal and benevolence which he manifested to promote the welfare , improvement , and edification of those with wliom he was connected . I
might state to you the ability with which he entered on the investigation of important truth , —the fearlessiiess with which he avowed it , with whatever reproach or calumny its advocates might be loaded ; and that , my friends , in times past , when the trial of such fortitude and integrity was much more severe than it now is ; and
of the candour and ingenuousness with which he endeavoured to communicate it to others . I might call to your recollection the many repeated and constant efforts which he made in every state and connexion of society to promote the diffusion of knowledge , and its practical and beneficial
influence upon the minds of the young , and those in riper years , by attending and encouraging the humbler schools of learning and knowledge , or the more important institutions in ; which the improvements of science and the discoveries of philosophy were brought to bear on the individual and social
characters of men , and their relation to one another . I might appeal to your recollection of the sympathy and feeling with which he entered into the sorrows and distresses of others , and of the kindness and earnestness with
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which he endeavoured to siipply M to procure consolation and relief . If I were to enlarge updii these particulars ^ I should do but imperfect justice to the merits of one who was ready to every work and labour of love ; and your testimony would afford abundant
^ viden € e ~ of ^ his-activity-and ~ be ] aeKc 3 ii _ lence , I have only to admonish you * so to bear these efforts in remembf £ ii < % that they may produce in you those rich fruits of virtue ,-and all goodness which will redound to your honour and advantage ; and inasmuch as they have proceeded from his effort ^ and
the influence of his e ^ am jjle , Be his joy and crown of tejoicing another day . While you have to niourri over ; the loss of a judicious and faithful instructor , of an intelligent and aeti ^ and zealous minister , you have tfis consolation to know that He who presides over the interests of his ehufehy
who is-the fountain of truth , of wisdom , of integrity , of virtue , afld of benevolence , will not-suffer-his ^ cause * to fail , nor the welfare and moral im * provement of his rational and liiteHU gent offspring to be retarded , but will
raise up instruments to perfect his benevolent designs , and to ebrnplete ^ the triumph of light , and truth , and virtue , over darkness , and error , and vice ; and may it be your happiness * my friends , to promote and share in the victory . ' :
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Died lately ^ eighty-sixth year of her age , Ann Davis , relict of the late Rev . David Davis , Cardiganshire . ( See Monthly Repository , New Series , vol . i . p . 692—695 and 846 . ) A grateful recollection of her tended affection as a motller * and kindness of disposition . and . miners towards all . ;
excites in the Writer a wish to record the termination of her long , active and useful life . The numerous ptu pils of heir learned partner , who are among the living , and a large circle ^ of friends and acquaintance , hold her memory in affectionate remembrance , as she always manifested by her sbciai conduct , in every connexion , si
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1832, page 142, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1817/page/14/
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