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1 ^ 55 tha n two thousand spectators in the burying * ground , of whom many , no doubt , assembled frora jnotives pf curiosity , but others , and those the larger number by
much , attended for the purpose of paying a tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased , and to mark , by this feeble but sincere testimony , how much they were affected by the loss of him who had occupied , so usefully ,
m most important post in society . Oft the following Sunday , an eloquent and very pathetic funeral sermon was delivered to the congregation by the Rev . Dr . Lindsay , which , we trust , will be
given to the public . The Rev . Henry Lacey , the morning preacher at Salters' Hall , preached on the same occasion ; as did the Rev , John Evans , * at Worship-Street . The Rev . Thomas Belsharn , of
Essex-street chapel , referred , in a sermori , with regret , as well for the public , as himself , to the loss of his very old friend and fellow
student . Dr . Toulmin , in a discourse preached on the same day , at St . Thomas ' s Meeting , in Southwark , did not fail to improve the solemn event : and an occasional
preacher , the Writer of this Memoir , at the Old Jewry chapel , in Jewin Street , who had been © ae of Mr * Worthington ' s pupils , at the close of a discourse JfForn the words selected from the
took of Job , " If a man diey shall h * live againV * introduced the following observations : — " Some of us , in the course of
* The interesting sermon , preached by Mr . Evans , entitled , Usefulness the great Object of the Christian Ministry , " to which we invite the attention ttfoirr reader ^ u published by Shcr . wood and Co # Paternoster Row *
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the last week , have seen committed to the cold and cheerless tomb , the remains of one who had been forty ^ ears distinguished as a popular and most useful
preacher in this city . His death would not , I am sure , have passed unregarded in this place , had the health of your excellent and venerable pastor allowed him to hare occupied , at this moment , his own pulpit . I pretend not
to supply the deficiency which his absence necessarily occasions . I feel that I am wholly unable to do justice to those talents , which I look back upon with respect and the most unfeigned regard , yet I will not pass by the circumstance entirely in silence .
« The death of Mr . Worthington cannot fail of exciting emotions of sensibility in the breasts of those who have witnessed his exertions in the pulpit , and who have been instructed by his discourses . Since he became a
preacher in the metropolis , a new generation has sprung up , on whom his public lahours must have had a considerable effect in forming the moral character *
There was a peculiarity in his manner , as well in his prayers , as in his sermons , which was entirely his own , which none could imitate , and which , if it did not accord with a correct taste and
refined judgment , was remarkably striking and impressive , and particularly adapted to the sen * tentious style of his composi- * tions .
4 The devotional parts of his services were well calculated to awaken in the thoughtless , and to animate in the serious part of his audience , those devout and grateful feeling ? which are esscu *
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Memoirs of the late Rev . Hugh Worthington . 9 f §
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 573, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/13/
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