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    weakness and pain , but his patience did not fail , nor was his faith shaken : the stamina of nature gradually gave Way , and he calmly resigned his life to the Great Being from whom he had received it , thankful for the extent to which it had been protracted , and the numerous blessings with

    whTch " h ~ had ~ been"cro \ vnedT- ~ --rt ~ has been intimated above that he was a teacher of music ; he had been so for a number of years , and his talents in that department were acknowledged by the best judges in this music-loving city . Three sets of

    sacred compositions remain to bear testimony to his skill . The first of these he published more than thirty years since , under the title of ' Twenty Psalms and Hymns , in three and four parts , adapted for the piano-forte and the organ ; ' the second and third were denominated

    ' Sacred Amusements for Sunday Evenings . ' Of these , as well as of the former , many were occasionally sung , arid still are so , at the several churches and chapels in Bath . Another use , though of an humbler kind , which he made of his musical abilities , was in setting a song which he had

    composed to an air , that took the popular fancy prodigiously : this was in recommendation of an article of food , which owed its origin to the skill of a respectable female in the pastry business , and was at that time much admired by the higher ranks as forming a distinguished part of their

    teatable provision . Jylhng , as he did , but an humble station in society , he was yet kind and condescending to those who moved in a sphere below his own . He fett for their privations ; he commiserated their troubles , and condoled with them in their sqrrows . The balm of consolation which

    he was able to pour into their wounds , afforded a sweet solace to his own heart , and he rejoiced with sincere thankfulness when , at any time , he was made an instrument in the hands of a superior Power to communicate the least benefit and

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    relief to his fellow-creatures . The Christian who looks upon his race with the eye of a pitying angel , regarding the whole human family in the spirit of diffusive and impartial love , will feel his heart bound with grateful joy when , with the eye of his mind , he looks down upon his breth--reny—and—descries—amongst ~ -them ~ acharacter like that which has now

    been described , and beholds him walking in the peaceful footsteps of those who have been an honour to their species , and holding on to the last in that course which he cannot doubt will at length conduct him to the bosom of his Father and his God .

    It may be added , to the honour of this excellent person , that he cherished a sweet spirit of truly Christian charity to those who differed from him in sentiments , and whom he contemplated as the blind votaries of error , anxiously wishing , indeed , that they would examine for themselves ,

    without prejudice or partiality , a . nd manfully avow what , upon seriojjs inquiry , they believed to be true . Of the innocence of involuntary error he entertained not the least doubt , but he was most seriously * and to his very soul , concerned for all who were

    bent upon pursuing the course in which they were brought up , and would not judge and act for themselves . Though averse to pass a sentence of condemnation upon any , which his charity forbad , he scrupled riot to declare his firm conviction

    that the conduct of such was neither in unison with the plainest principles of Christianity nor common sense , was neither innocent nor safe . Whatare called the evils of this life did not affect him as they do many persons . His conviction of the power , wisdom , and goodness , of the supreme Ruler raised him above all fears as to the

    consequences to which they might be thought likely to lead ; on the contrary , he believed that they would be made productive of singular blessings hereafter , and that however mysterious the wavs of Providence

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    1 Q 6 HJNITARtAN CH&ON 1 CLE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1832, page 196, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1821/page/20/