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* d > Th « gate * of death were entered with meek humility and holy diffidence , equally remote frem the painful feelings « T the dubious unbeliever , and the vain confidence of the boasting enthusiast . Sbc was interred on Monday the | oth , beside the ashes of two infant children , and of a much beloved son . This amiable
youth was the only chad , who survived the days of infancy . He died Dec . 30 th . 180 a , aged eighteen years and seven months , universally esteemed , and sincetfely regretted by those who knew him .
His dissolution ^ in the bloom of life , Was a loss to the deceased , which , though sustained with pious resignation to the will of the Supreme , was ever remembered with , the most tender feel *
ings of * WKtternal affection . A discourse was ( Mrvered in ' the evening , by Mr . Ihofc Payne , of Burwash , from the words of Paal , % Gor * xiiL 11 . to a nuitterow ^ audience of various
denominations of Christians , who , forgetting party distinctions , united 'in paying die last tokens of respect to their deceased friend , and receiving with serious attention her farewell advice .
Cranhrsok . S . D . tRto . - August * 3 V at Boston , lAscolh-« ht * e , ENOeKPRlfeSTLEY PL ATTS , oiily son of ' tiieRev . John Platts , Unitarian minister iir that place . He was
drowneds along with- two brothers , his school-fellows , while bathing . . It was at a place where they had often bathed before with safety , but the sluice-gates ftad been recently opened , and the late rains had caused such a flow of fresh
water , as hafl scoured the channel , and caused an alteration in it , of which they were not at all aware * IThree finer boys could scarcely haye been found , they all possessed bright parts and early attainments . E . P , Plants was only nine years old , the 14 th of Marchiast , but the progress Se had made in knowledge khdimpfovereat , under the tuition' of his father , ^ as astonishing ly greit . He had more thin once been through all die rules of arithmetic as far as the citraction of the sqaare root , which he could extract Jnth case . He had a cohsideraiile know-Wgc c ^ history , Engteh ^ ammar , najftral philosophy , T 8 fcc . « e liad just ween attending a course © f lectures on natural philosophy , and Ms knowledge on th « c subjects gratified all who coc-^ rs cd wlA hini / H < i wa « such a reader *' i » BeM ^ iftcwa ^ t hi 8 aet . No father
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crer bestowed more pains <* t $ a son ' s imprbvehient ; and no father Was eycr more rewarded in the rising genius and promising abilities of an amiable ehild * He will be long , Uxng lamented by bis aflSictcd parents , who well knew how to
appreciate the merits of their child—of a child , who , though so young , had become their friend and companion , who entered into all their views , who could console them under affliction , and assist them , in tjieir labours . Bdiig so . excellent a reader , he had become the family chaplain and instructor . He read prayers With a peculiar Vmphasis , and could
read a sermon in * he family , with suich grace and propriety , as was admired and felt by all who heard , bim . He was tutor to his little sLters , three of whom remain to prattle his praise . He had his faults , but they were not many . Upon the whole be ' .. was pious , virtuous and good . A strict regard to truth marked the whole of his conduct . He
^ was not deficient erven in religious knowledge ; lie had .: committed tomenapry , and frequently repeated , the chief part of that excellent ; little tract , entitled Practical Instructions for Youth * published by the Unitarian Society ., Jtje was remarkable . for ppssesaipg a strqog
heroic mind , and a freedom ftam , every suedes of superstition / as well as pf inipiety . He was known and admired by a large circle of acquaintance , for he hot only accompanied his * father in his daily walks , and in his pastoral visits , but also in almost all his journeys .
Next midsummer he was to have been sent tp Dr . J 4 oy < Ts school , at Palgrave , for a few years , by a generous and liberal gentleman , a friend of his father ' s , and from thence it was contemplated that lie might have gone to York College , and have been instrumental in defending rational Christianity , when some bfitfs present supporters are laid in the srrave . But it was not to be .
AlVni g Ety nierct cani ^ ot , err . The ways q heaven are rriysteripus . It is-our duty to Low with JbturhBle submission tod nlial resignation to the will of our heavenly father , who no doubt does all things for the best * W ) iere w ^ c ^ ipnot unravel ,
we must learn to trust , We must" ^ ait ; thie greit tita < 4 i « r death and God adore , ' * , rfe&as hot found until &nn&ay the * 6 th , and was interred on the following day , in die DbseJatd ^ * * Durying -ground , in / Imp ton . The Rev . Richard ^ rigfej ^ of Wisbeach . pronounced the funeral era-
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Obituary . —" E / foch Priestley Platts . 457
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1810, page 457, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2408/page/33/
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