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    Feb . 18 , at her brother ' s house , at Aslrwell , near Royston , in the 17 th year of her age , Miss MARTHA FORDHAM , daughter of Mr . George F . of Sandon . We have taken the first opportunity which our limits would allow , to give an interesting account of this young lady , with which we have been favoured . She

    was accustomed to worship in a small congregation in her neighbourhood , chiefly Unitarians . These with a consistency which we wish were Jess uncommon , instead of joining any of the Trinitaiian Societies around them , assemble together for prayer , reading , and exposition of the scriptures , different members taking a part without the assistance of a settled minister . To this

    congregation , on the Sunday after Miss F . ' jj interment , the following address was delivered by one of her near relations . c < It will be recollected-by most present that our dear young friend ( whose departure from this life , we have assembled ourselves together , not so much to

    deplore as to improve ) was during the first % years of her life , the very picture of health , and her days promised to be extended as long as that of any who now hear me . But it pleased the ail-wise Disposer of events , who numbereth our days , to call her away in the morning of life , adding ; another instance to the many we have witnessed , that health

    * s no security against the stroke of death ; tiius verifying the sentiment of inspira-* " > ny ' -t b&t ali- fle&b is graes , and , that

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    by many . who , "beyond the Tittle circle of their friends , have been unknown both in their life and in their death ; it was felt by her whose loss we mourn It seemed to be her earnest desire and aim , to regulate her affections and actions by the will of God ; and though we

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    mourn her loss , and sympathize with those who must most feel it , we sorrow not as those who have no hope ; for we look forwards to a period , when , with all who have faithfully acted up to the light they possess , she will be received , by her Great Master , into tho ^ e regions where sin and sorrow will be known no nuxre "

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    youth , health , and beauty are as the flower of ^ grass , the grass withereth , and the flower falieth ; thus do human beings fade away in their ways . " In the 9 th year of her age , she was attacked with a fever , from which she very slowly recovered , a . nd from that period-symptoms of the decline of which

    she died , began to make their appearance . The remainder of her life ( which comprehended 9 years of sickness , with few and short intervals of health , ) were years of great interest to those who delight in the contemplation of religious aiid

    moral improvement , considering it not only as the one thing needful , but as the chief ornament of our nature , and the only foundation of lasting happiness . Of her it may be truly said , that as her outward man decayed , her inward man of intellectual and moral

    improvement increased . " To her young companions it may not be improper here to remark that her life was a complete confutation of the stale objection so often urged , that a close attention to religion in youth , Viestroy * the spirits , and creates gloomy dispositions . Alive as she always was to the

    subjects of religion , I appeal to all who knew her , if she was not habitually cheerful , even to gaiety . Indeed nb persons can have so just reason for cheer fulness as they who by the exercise of . good conscience live in a good degre , to their own approbation . There wei "; certain dispositions so pre-eminent in

    her , that you need not be reminded of them , they will always be associated with her remembrance ; such as the most child-like simplicity , the most pure disinterestedness , and friendship the most ardent ; dispositions it should be recollected , which if not found in youth , are rarely the growth of rnaturer years . Another trait of her character fre ^ h in

    every one ' s recollection , was the lively interest she took in conversing with , and usefully amusing children , or persons much inferior to herself in years and tuulerstanding . Considering the

    culture she had bestowed upon her own mind beyond her years , this may appear a little extraordinary . It of icn happens in jrociety , that the elderly part of the company converse upon subjects only interesting to themselves , and the youngare consigned over to neglect . The

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1807, page 391, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2382/page/51/