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was now about to settle at Berkhamsted , where there was every prospect of his being useful and happy . But his course was run : —his work was drawing to a termination . The Sunday evening preceding his death , he preached a farewell sermon at Chatham , from this remarkable passage , Acts xx , 2 , 5 . And
noTVy behold ! I kno * w that ye all , among ivhom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God , shall see my face no more . The next day being Christmas day , he preached the lecture at Whitstable , with his usual earnestness and animation ,
from Luke i . 79 . To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shado < w of death , to guide our feet into the ' way cf peace . This , alas ! proved the conclusion of his labours ; for the next day he was seized with a violent fever , and on Friday he died , sincerely regretted by his relations and numerous friends . He was
interred at Whitstable , where Mr > Flavius Kingsford preached his funeral sermon , to a crowded and weeping auditory . — Watch ^ therefore ^ for ye hnouj not ivbat hour your Lord doth come ! Islington , 1810 , Jan . 10 . At Brompton , in Kent , Mrs . ELIZABETH FL .
AXMORE . This poor , but pious woman , had been , for some years , a professor of the religion of Jesus Christ , among the people called : Methodists ; and though she evidenced a decided preference for that connexion , it was not at the expense of a prejudice against any other denomination of Christians . On the
contrary , she was remarkable for a spirit of candour which reflected no small credit on her character . To those who knew her , and were capable of appreciating moral worth , she could not but
be ( as was the case ) highly esteemed . For some considerable length of time , the writer of this had been closely acquainted with her , and occasionally visited her in the period of an illness of some ; few months duration . Then it
w&s > that her patience shone conspicuous ; while' a comfortable belief in the pronuse of immortality caused her to anticipate the approaching moment of dissolution without dread . January 18 . At seven o ' clock , on
Thursday evening , an inquest was held in Upper Thames Street , before the coroner for the city of London , on the body of Mr . L , YON LEVY , who was found dead about noon that day , in Monument Yard * It appeared in evidence , «* atthe deceased had paid for adwiistion
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into the monument , observing to the keeper , that some ladies were shortly to join him : upon which the man said , C { Sir , had not you better wait until the ladies come ? " The deceased , however , proceeded onwards directly ; he reached the gallery , precipitated himself over the railings , and falling on his head , expired without a groan . Hi *
fall appeared at first to be in such a strait , perpendicular direction , that it was thought he would have fallen inside of the railing ; his feet , however , striking against one of the grifHns by the way , threw him some distance from the monument , and he fell into the yard surrounding it . He was one of the most extensive dealers in diamonds
pearls , rubies , topazes , emeralds , and other precious stones , in England . He was of the Jewish persuasion ; , and , besides several "very extensive connexions abroad , he had nearly 20 Jews about the streets of London , who acted as
hawkers or runners to his house , and each of whom had power to give credit to the jewellers to a great extent . Within the course of the last month-, he called on a person of responsibility in the trade , residing in Craven Buildings * and offered him diamonds and other
precious stones to the amount of between 2 and 3000 I . on credit ; but the other prudently refused the offer , on account of the very great risk he ran of disposing of such a quantity of valuable gems m time sufficient for the re-payment . The deceased was a man of such
correctness in all his dealings , that up to the very day of his death , he could have got credit amongst the other merchant * in his line of business to almost any amount . He had been , however , unfortunate in several very extensive speculations to Gibraltar and other places abroad ; he could not brook the idea of sustaining his credit for some time longer
by the assistance of friends , whom , perhaps , he might not have it in his power to pay . And , after having passed many years in the most honourable affluence , his altered circumstances made a deep impression on his mind ; he was observed to be frequently of a gloomy habit , was totally absorbed in thought , and absent from every thing that was the topic of conversation around him . He has left
a wife and eight children to bewail his loss , and it is supposed that his wife is pregnant of a ninth child . Under all these circumstances , the jury returned a verdict of insanity .
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Obituary . 149
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 149, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/45/
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