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Mrs . E . Filliter — Rev . Mr . Barker — Mrs . P :. ivelL ' '
dorvved with such qualities , it is scarce necessary to add , that under those sufferings peculiar to her disorder , she awaited with patience and resignation the termination of her mortal life , whiv h happened on May 9 , when she expired without a groan , in the full and assured hope of a glorious resurrection . Ju vf , a is . cc May— at Wareham , Dor it , Mrs ELIZA FIIXITER , youngest daughter of Thomas Brown Esq . of the same town .
This amiable lady was married in the beginning of the present year , to Mr . F , a re pectahle attorney at Wareham . Her prospects on her entrance into active life were singularly pleasing ; hut alas ! such is the instability of all sublunary good , that she "was destined to live with her affectionate partner only the short space of seventeen weeks . An in-Sanimation of the "bowels carried" her to her lr = st home . IAke young Timothy of old , however , it was her happiness , to have known the scriptures from her childhood . She was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Wareham , under the pastoral care of the Rev . T . Thoma-s . The calmness with which she met death ,
demonstrated the worth of religion in . a dying hour . She was willing , yet not anxious to live— -ready , but not importunate to be eased from her pains by death . 0 ften , < during her illness , did she ex > press'her thankfulness for youthful piety . ** Death-bed repentance / ( would she say ) 6 always thought very dangerous , beciiuse very uncertain , and now , I am fiiore than ever convinced of its fatal impropriety . Let me die the death of the righteous . ' * " Ju ne 28 . The Rev . Mr . BARKER of Burslcm , an occasional prca .-htr at the ! Mer ! : odist Chapel , in StLiTorc ' . In tile midbt of his discourse on Sunday evening , he expired suddenly , without ? my previous symptoms of illness , and fell from the pulpit , to the great terror jand amazement of the congregation . "
Prefs-*• On Monday , July 6 th , after an illness of les ¦ ¦; thu . 11 two days , Mrs : POWI JL 1 ., wife of Mr . Joseph Powell , Merchant in I'A'cnr The loss of this truly excellent woman , will long be deeply felt , not merely iu the domestic circle , but aiv . O ! = t > ' those ¦ who had the privilege . pf her friemlly regard . Possessed of # p chance i \ ud a ^ enuhic polish 0 / ft- ' a «
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manners , which would have secured her a gratifying reception in the circles of gaiety and fashion , and , at the same time , endowed with talents which would have qualified her to shine in the pursuits of mental culture , she gave herself up to the faithful di charge of the do * rnestic duties . Her abilities and good sense ., were , for some time , , exercised
in . the early education of two promising children . Maternal tenderness did not in her degenerate into foolihsly indulgent fondness ; she was ab-e to give uf > hex own gratification for their future good . Indeed she could bear any thing- for her children , as she has been known to say , but she did not think she could bear their loss . Tliat trial , however , was in reserve for her . About the middle of 1805 , in the space of a month , both were taken away from her . It was a heavy stroke ; for a time it was ' overpowering ; but she knew the hand which inflicted it ; ? he learnt to tnr-t though she could not trace , and she bowed submissively to the appointments of
Providence . Again her hopes were raised by the birth of another child : but , before the bud of intellect and affection had begun to open , that too was removed from her . At first she seenied to sink under the accumulation of sorrow ; but it was not for a long time ; she rose superior to it with the placidnees of re * signation . ' Father , not my will , but thine , be done , * was now the language . of her heart . It was a noble instance of the power of religious principle ; aad a noble example she has set to those who are now culled upon to deplore her loss .
Another , and a healthful babe , produced a renewal of maternal pleasures and anxieties . For a little time they were her ' s ; and then she suddenly sunk into the silent slumbers of . the tomb . Thy ways , O I ^ ord , are little known . To our weak , erring , si ^ ht ; Yet shall our souls believing own , That all thy ways are ri ^ ht .
" Pier religious belief coincided with the Unitarian system . It would have been unnecessary to mention this , were it not the fact , that numbers cannot think the .. Unitarian tenets capable of affording consolation in the hour of distress . The great mexkm defender of tho > , e tenets , felt thejr efficacy both in purifying- the heart , and 311 supporting vuider affliction : it has eeu fcLt , toqj
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390 Obituary .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1807, page 390, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2382/page/50/
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