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    ^ amiable and estimable qualities will perpetuatehismemory amongst hif intimate friends , and deserve to be generally known , for the encouragement and example of others . Had be not paid a greater Wgard to conscience than to interest ; to truth than to popularity ; to libei ^ ality in thinking , speaking

    and acting , than to the blind attachment of a party , and the cla * morons eulogiums of bigots ; the events of his life , the circumstances of his death , the excellencies of h \ s character , would have been set forth in the most glowing and fascinating colours , and transmitted , in widely circulating monthly publications , throughout the whole British empire , and a great part

    of America . As things are , the memoir of him is likely to be scanty , and the fame of his worth contracted ^ comparatively , in narrow limits . The writer of this article has , indeed , to lament , that the materials for an account # f him , to which he has access , are not more copious . He hopes that those who are capable of communicating further information , Inay , on observing the deficiency , be inclined to supply it from their more'ample stores . — - —Christian charity solicits that he should obtain a niche in the obituary of the Monthly Repository .

    Mr . J . AtlAy was a native of Yorkshire , born and educated , it is believed , in the vicinify of JJowden . Of the circumstances of his early life , the writer has gained no Intelligence , He is able to trace him back , no further than the year 1765 . In that year , his name is found in the Minutes of the Methodist Conference , held at ; Manchester ; iwhere h 0 is on the list Off the preachers , and ap-. . i : « : ¦ ¦

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    pointed Hb labour , in what wat then called th ? Haitiank Circuit . Judging from circumstuncps , he probably commenced ah iti nerant preacher about the year 1762 . } j e continued to labour assiduously in that connection , subject to the frc quent changes of situation , which are customary amongst them . He

    was most fnquenily stationed in the northern part of England , and for some lime , it is thought , in Scotland . About the year 1775 he was appointed by Mr . Wesley and the Conference , to the offict of Buok-Steward , and on that account had a fixed residence ig London , This office is one of gre at

    responsibility , as it has for its objects the entire concerns of printing and selling the books , which are published by the members of the Methodist Conference , for whose general benefit the business is carried- on * Whilst Mr * Atlay was in this situation , he constantly preached in the chapels belonging

    to the society in London , wi& great acceptance . An event took place , in the year 1787 , which ocasioned him to quit his office as Book-Steward , to dissolve bii union with the Methodist society * both as a preacher and as a mem * ber , and ultimately h d to a very considerable change in his religious

    opinions and vjews . A dispute arose between the trustees of a Methodist chapel , recently built at Dewsbury , ail < i Mr . Wesley and his associates . The latter insisted 011 having the appointment of the preachers , and the whole management pf the temporalities of the cbapel , under their power and influence ; the former asserted

    with firmness wh ^ t £ h «? y thought were their lindoubted rights The result w « , di ^ tfce -Methodirt ^

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    . ' 1 ¦ ^ 2 » Obituary . — Rev . JohnAtlay .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1811, page 728, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2423/page/24/