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    plied by serving others , by the exercises of intellect , by improving conversation , by religious and philosophical meditations , and by the anticipation of the future unfolding and the glorious effects of the plan of divine Providence , and of the Christian . dispensation .

    The principles of Christian piety and benevolence , which governed her conduct in the preceding parts of life , were signally displayed in her exercise of fortitude and resignation , m her kind consideration of her friends , in her solicitude to

    give as little trouble , interruption , and hinderance as possible , through the long progress of that decline , which terminated in her dissolution . When the ravages of her disorder had extinguished in the breasts of her relations tire last remains of

    a hope of her recovery , the goodness of God towards her was manifested in her comfortable hope of his acceptance , and of blessings precious beyond the reach of human thought , and secured by promises ' which can never fail . Not a single

    complaint was heard from her lips ; not a groan escaped her , except when in ajdozing state . Her chief study seemed to be to lessen the grief of those about her , which could not be wholly concealed . She discovered neither sorrow nor fear on

    Jicr own account . She had a constant ^ attendant in her afflicted mother , and , for the last three or four months , in her beloved daughter . The latter had been before indispensably obliged to leave her in a very feeble , though not , as she apprehended , in a hopeless state ; but returned with her infant as soon as it

    ¦ was judged to be proper and safe after her confinement . It had been thought necessary not to disclose to her the extreme danger of her revered parent ; her disappointment , consequently , on revisiting her , was distressing to a degree , which

    may be conceived , but not expressed . She had , however , the mournful satisfaction of ministering to her in her helpless and dying state , and of receiving the tokens of her complacency and affection . The most perfect harmony and friendship always subsisted between them . They were observed to live and converse

    together like sisters ; without , however , 4 kny abatement of maternal care on the one part , or of the respect due to the superior relation on the other . If a fer-* cnr attachment to the members of a person ' s family could justify a reluctance

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    against submitting to the stroke of death , when it is evidently impending , Mrs . Johnston might have urged , had she needed , the plea . But deference and submission to the wisdom and appointment of God rendered her willing to depart out of the present life , and to leave

    under his care those , whose happiness was always near her heart . Her declar * ation to her " dearest associate ** w&s , that she had no will but God ' s , with respect to the issue of her disorder , and doubted not , if it was to be in death , but that he had wise and good ends to . answer by it , and that it would be best for her and

    others . " Among other witnesses of the edifying and affecting scenes of her last illness , he who is paying this inadequate tribute to her worth , while sorrowing at the visible approach of the separating stroke , could not but observe with

    admiration and gratitude to Heaven , the triumph over bodily pain and extreme weakness , achieved by an humbly approving conscience , and by Christian faith and hope . Thanks be unto God for the manifestation of his truth and

    grace , ** by the appearing of our Saviour , Jesus Christ , who hath abolished death , and brought life and immortality to light , through the gospel . ' * She was interred in the Rev . Mrv Palmer ' s burying ground , at Hackney , on

    Friday , August the 3 d , when an impressive and eloquent address was delivered by Mr . Asp land ; who , also , in the morning of the following Sunday , preached at his own place , a sermon , fraught with suitable instryctions ^ and consolations , which was heard with much

    attention and affection by the congregation at large , as well as by those who were peculiarly interested iri the occasion / The removal of such a person from her sphere of usefulness among us , in the midst of her days , and in the vigour of her faculties , is one of those provident al dispensations , for which at present we

    are not able to account . It becometh her afflicted relations to bow with the profoundest reverence and resignation to that supreme wisdom , which cannot err . May they do the truest honour to her memory by imitating her virtues , and ensure the highest interest of their being , by conforming , as she did , with the laws and ^ ttample of Christ . Stoke Ne * tvingtonj W ~ » J « 4 ugU 4 t %% , iSlO .

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    416 Obituary . — Mrs . M . Johnston .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1810, page 416, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2407/page/40/