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We would not repine at divine providence ; but , O , let the God of grace pardon us in dropping * the tear of affection . Mr . Ade ' s constitution appeared to be strong ; but to the surprise of his friends , about nine months ago , he was attacked with a cough and spitting of blood . He continued to grow worse ,
and on the 34 th October , 1809 , heretired from business , and on the 25 th of March , 1810 , in the zist year of his age , death ended hts affliction . Though he found some difficulty in reconciling himself to his fate , yet he bore his illness with great patience , and in this he set a good example . The disorder which ended in the dissolution of this
promising young man , was a consumption , supposed to be caused by tubercles on his lungs . On the Sunday following his death , he was brought to the meeting in Southover , and a sermon was preached
by Mr , Bennett , of Ditchling , from Revelations xiv . 13 . " Blessed are the dead which die in the lord . " The place was crowded , and a great number could not get in . After the service , the body of the deceased was interred in the
adjoining burying ground ; but his memory will long live in the recollection of his acquaintance . May every youth take proper warning from this instance of mortality ; it has a thousand tongues , and a voice like thunder . " So teach us
to number our days , that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom . " A . B .
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Mrs , Eliza Flower . u When such friends part , 'tis the Survivor dies . " 1810 , Wednesday , Apr il 11 , between the hours-of nine and ten in the evenine , mm _ _ _ _ * J *
died Eliza , wife of Benjamin Flower , of Hariow , Essex , the day after her being delivered of a son , who lived but a few hours . She was the eldest daughter of Mr . John Gould , of Dedbroke , Devonshire , and was born at Barnpton ,
in the same county , in the month of May , 1770 . Brought up by her excellent parents in the nurture and admonition of the Lord , she constantly evinced , from an early period , the truth of the sacred maxim , that , «« Train up a child
in the way she should , go , and when she is old she will not depart from Jt- The love of virtue and the principles of religion , as maintained by Protestant dissenters , which she had learned ™ her lather ' s house , were the founda-
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tion of her hi g h and perpetually rising character . \ Her moral and intellectual qualities -were drawn out ; in early life ; for before she was fifteen years of age she was called to undertake the domestic management of a large family , the junior members of which devolved , in a great
measure , upon her care : they regarded her more as a parent than a sister , and now take a melancholy pleasure in acknowledging obligations ( under Providence ) to her wisdom and affection , which can never be repaid . Whilst she was conscientiously and
assiduously attentive to the duties which she owed to her family , she did not neglect to cultivate her own mind . Strong mental powers , aided by a . sort of felicity of nature , enabled her , amidst arduous domestic cares , to acquire a considerable stock of knowledge , together with the more useful female
accomplishments . Thus prepared , her desire of virtuous independence led her , as soon as she could honourably disengage herself from home , to enter herself a member of two or three respectable families successively , in the capacity of an instructress of youth ; a sphere of action in which so many females , distinguished by their talents and virtues , have
moved , and in which they have rendered such important services to society . In one df these families , residing near Bedford , her benevolence had an opportunity of displaying itself ; , she projected the plan of a Sunday school , which she was enabled to carry into execution to such an extent , that , when she left the village , there were not less than one hundred children in a course of
instruction in the elements of social usefulness and religious knowledge : —in another of them , she became acquainted with the gentleman -whose name she was destined afterwards to bear , and whose happiness she was formed to promote . Her success in private tuition prompt * ed her to seek a more public and permanent post ; and , accordingly , she opened
a boarding-school at South Molton , in her native county . Here ner qualifications soon became known , and her manners attracted respect and . confidence ; and her prospects of usefulness and happiness enlarged daily , until the fell spirit of political bigotry raised up against her the worst passions , which blighted her hopes as to her present condition ,
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Obituary . —Mrs : Flower . 203
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1810, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2403/page/43/
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