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Addition to the Obituary of Mr .. Thomas Hawkes , p 93 . The following is a list ofhis Charity Legacies :
To the Missionary Society , 2000 L 4 per cents . Missionary Society to Africa and the East , ioool . s per cents , reduced . Poor pious Clergy in the country , 1000 I . do . Decayed Ministers in Lady Huntingdon ' s Connexion , 500 L 3 per cent . cons . Society for promotingReligiousKnowledge among the Poor , xool . sterling .
A Society in the west of England , 15 C 0 L 3 per cent , reduced . Ditto in the north , 1500 I . 3 percent reduced . Cheshunt College , ioool . 4 per cent Hoxton Academy , 500 I . 3 per cent
jpeduced . British and Foreign Bible Society , ioool . 4 per cent . , Naval and Military Ditto , 500 I 3 per cent , consols ;
Sun day-School Society , aool . sterling . Sick Man ' s Friend Society , aool . ster . Stranger ' s Friend Society , 200 I . ster . London Penitentiary , icool . 3 percent , consols . Plymouth Penitentiary , aocl . ster . Lock Hospital , 500 I . ster . Lock Asylum , 500 L ster . New Rupture Society , 500 I . 3 per cent , reduced .
Poor of Bromsgrove , in Worcestershire , 1 cool . 4 per cent . New Chapels at Stourbridge and Wordsley , 850 I . ster . Ev . Mag . 1809 ? October 9 . At Bridport , after a lingering indisposition , ABIGAIL , the wife of Mr . George FOWLER . The uniform patience with which this
excellent young woman submitted to , and even acquiesced in , the will of her heavenly Father , affords another proof of the efficacy of religious principles , where they are truly felt , in reconciling the mind to the most painful
dispensations . u Death forgot in youth , " says Young , ftt is folly ; in age , madness . — Happy they ! whom death , when he comes , shall find at home : his visit will have less of terror in it , In peace
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many have died ; and , therefore , i % U certain all may . The whole secret for obtaining that peace , is an absolute resignation to the Most High ; which ,
( as hard a task as it seems to some , ) at the bottom , is no more than owning him to be God . " " Death gives us more ' than was in Hdcn lost : j This king of terrq . 53 is the prince of peace .
1809 , Dec . 24 . DI&Vv at Birmingham , in his fifty-seconl ye >; ar , JAMES BELCHER , bookseller ind j ? rintf r . He won attachmeiMy not ix ? efely by his knowledge and good ' sense , \ - an 4 his superior diligence and skill in Kfekprofession , but still more by the kincfoefcs of his temper * the modesty ^ Hd gentleness of his -manners- * the purity of his mind , and his correct and ' exemplary discharge of the dirties of every" relation which he filled . And his friends had
numerous opportunities of remarking , with what ease he could forego his own ease and benefit , to render service to others ; and with what success he had learnt a lesson , which , judging fronx facts , should seem to be particularly difficult \—the union of candour and forbearance , wth firmness and decision in the a < vczval of important truths *
The closing moments of such a life were suitable to the virtues that had adorned it . The mind had peace and joy in believing . All was thankfulness , resignation and hope , tenderness to survivors , gratitude to friends , the counsels of wisdom and piety , mingling with the consolations which affection and
faith alike suggested * It waa a scene truly honourable to religion : never may the remembrance of it be lost by the writer and his fellow-mourners ! 1809 , Dec . 2 . 9 . At WhitejtabJe , near Canterbury , the Rev . JOHN BAKER . He had received some instruction for the
ministry , under the Rev . ] . Evans , at Islington ; and was placed there by the General Baptist Education Society . At the close of his studies , he settled in Leicestershire , where his labours were very acceptable . This sphere of usefulness he left for Chatham ; but quitting that situation , about Midsummer last , he
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 148, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/44/
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