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434 Obituary - —Mr . Samuel Faroes .
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Mr . Mence , for 20 years . She was a woman of very excellent understanding , of unostentatious piety , of sweet disposition and temper , of refined taste , and of extensive reading . This is as little as perhaps could be expected to be said bv a son who is
conscious of possessing but a small portion of her talents , and at the same time recollects the adoration ? hat he paid to her many virtues . After having lost this inestimable woman , he married Martha Freeman , of Bewdley , a sister of the present Mrs . Skey , the wife of Jonathan Skey , Esq . of that town , and with her he lived happily for 20 years also , and was a widower for the last ten years of his life .
l he deceased was ever fond of desultory reading ; but he often remarked , that to all other books he gave the scriptures the preference . It was known indeed to his intimate friends , that he read a small portion of scripture early every morning , and that he
made a point of keeping that particular portion of the sacred volume in his mind all the da 3 ' , that he might have something to reflect upon in any leisure moments that might present themselves . This method he found useful in many respects , and it prevented ^ as he used to say the intrusion of idle thoughts . This practice , which
lie continued through the course of a long life , gave him a great knowledge of the scriptures , and enabled him to quote almost any part of the book with facility . This fondness for the Bible he ^ attributed to * 1 m habit of early rising , and for which he was indebted to the unremitting attentions of his father ^ who , when he
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was a boy of ten or twelve y ear of age , used to heave him Olu 0 * bed , while asleep , ^ d lay hi ' naked on the floor , at five o ' clock every morning . This was Urd discipline , but his father persisted in it till he had acquired the habit of rising himself at thai hour " and then the difficulty was r « n
quered , not only for that time but for his whole life . t yj ^ truth it may be said , that for more than fifty years he was . acne rally up , winter and summer , soon after four , but he always made a point of being washed and dressed before the town-bcli ran " five . He then smoked a pipe and read for an hojjr , and when his own clock struck six , fee regular . ly called up his servants , and began to make preparation for the business of the day .
When the business of the day was over , his servants and the other branches of the family usually assembled for family prayer . This service he t always performed himself , extempore , with great propriety of expression , and in ^ m anner that commanded the attention of all who heard him . He has often remarked that there is great indecency in persons stud ying to round their period * and beautify their language whin addressing their fellow mortals , and yet entering into the presence of the Deity with any kind oi
words upon their lips . Jmpressi'u with this idea , he spent a deal of his leisure time in reducing pia } r to a system , and being in inhabit of writing short-hand , thi- > enabled him to commit his though * more readily to paper- Thispi ^ - tiee also furnished him with mor ; variety of matter than most m those persons have who aroaccu > -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1811, page 434, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2418/page/50/
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