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sympathy Which any addition would but weaken . Unitarians have never been backward on such odeasionSj nor will they now * W& have taken the liberty of substituting Mr . Borwood ' s name for that-of the individual
mentioned by Mr . Fawcett , not from any disinclination on his part , for he is " anxious to promote the suT 5 scfiption 7 and has already interested himself for that purpose , but because sending to the Unitarian Association Office
will be generally more convenient , and in many cases save expense in the postage of letters and acknowledgments . An account of Mr . Hughes ' s .. arrival and death was inserted in our last , since which , we have received a letter from Mr . Teulpn i of Montreal , in which , after speaking in strong terms of Mr . Hughes ' s services ^ and of the sad event which followed , he thus continues : —
This melancholy loss has left Mrs . Hughes in a foreign country , .. with . one _ . SQn _ of eigte . e . n years of age , by trade a watchmaker , but who , as he can obtain no employment in this country , will , together with Mrs , H ., and one daughter of ten years , return to England as soon as we can find a vessel bound to the
west of England . Since Mr . Hughes s death , the second daughter , a very fine girl of thirteen , has been also carried off by the same terrible complaint , after eight or ten hours illness . TJi . ese , various - trials . have . left Mrs .
H . much broken down in spirit , and I fear it will be long before she again recovers hex * wonted strength of nerve ; she is at present stayliig with me * and will continue so to do , with her youngest daughter , until she returns .
any fund in England for the support or assistance of Ministers' Widows , but I am sure , if there is , you Will not fail to use your influence to obtain for Mrs . H . every assistance in your power . By her losses she has become dependent upon the bounty of her friends , Mr , BL from the small .
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ness of his salary at Yebvil ; and the largeness of his family , having been . unable to lay anything up for his widow . ' With respect to our future proceedings , we still keep on with our
building , and have written to a gentleman in the States , and hope soon "to ^ have "" tKe * "Unifarians rnlHJociy , and " no longer , as at present , without any head or fellow-feeling . I shall , from time to time , write upon this subject . . * I have been unwell for some time
past , but hope I am now in a fair way of recovery . ' Oct . 2 . Since writing the above , Mr . M . Harding arrived . You know he was the Unitarian Minister of Plymouth ; he preached here four or five times , but by the American Unitarians he was thought not ' sufficiently
eloquent , and , therefore , they would not engage him : so now we have a good room fitted up that will contain with ease 300 persons , and no . preacher ; but in a short time ^ ve expect some of the American preachers in , and-1 hope it will not be long before the Society will be fairly established .
' The city is now healthy , only one or two cases of cholera per week , but every now and then it threatens to return , by attacking six or seven in a day ; business is also recovering / The following are the extracts from the Canadian Herald ) sent by put . co-respondent :- — 4
At Coteau du Lac , on the 9 th instant , the Rev . David Hughes , formerljr Unitarian minister of Yeovil , Somersetshire , England , aged fortyseven years . Few of the fatal ravages of cholera call so , awfully upon the survivors to *< be also ready" as tHe IJeaflfof this" gen tleman . ?
On Thursday morning he left his family in good health arid spirits , on his way to the Upper Province , and in less than sixteen hours afterwards , he was Called from the service of his Lord and Master upon earth , to the more exalted and glorified realities of His presence , in the highest sanc-
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UNITARIAN CHRONICLE , % t ) 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1832, page 263, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1825/page/23/
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