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feadiiy and generously assisted them in attaining the object of their wishes . Out of pure friendship , and the desire of being useful , he has opened the road to sev ~ eral , and to others he has granted , or obtained for them , those aids
in the way of instruction , which could not have been procured elsewhere ^ without any hopes , any expectation , or even any , the most distant chance of remuneration imthis world .
4 Of these , not one it is believed will think upon his exertions , his labours of benevolence , without emotions of gratitude ; not one whotvould not rejoice to be
situated as I , at this moment am , with the opportunity of acknowledging in public , and before a most numerous and respectable congregation , how much he is indebted to his kindness and liberality .
" Of these many are filling useful and important stations in the church ; and some , one at least , who either from the want of proper talents , or from other circumstances , to which he cannot allude , without lisking the charge
of egotism , having been denied the place in society ,, which from early life he anxiously sought , is not wholly useless , in that particular way for which the late Mr . Worthingtou was greatly celebrated , viz . in guiding the steps of the young into the temple of knowledge . If a train of circumstances
which , after all , he has _ no reason to regret or be ashamed of , has deprived him . of what he long esteemed , and . still regards , as one of the most important apd useful Actions - in . life ,, that of a public tea ha *> of the , Christian reliaion ,
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he * cannot reproach himself with any great share of inactivity : if denied the opportunity of labouring in the cause of virtue and the promotion of true knowledge , on the first day of the week , he is teaching by his works , humble as they are , not a few on the other six . It affords him some
consolation to know , that he is not wholly useless ; that the gratuitouslaboursof his deceased friend , whose remains he , uninvited , with many others * affected by the loss , followed to the grave , have not been entirely thrown away .
" Can we think of such a man , as him to whom I have directed your thoughts , or rather to whom all our thoughts are almost naturally impelled , and yet with respect to him , and to others like him , who are actively engaged in
training their fellow creatures to virtue , ask the question in the text , ' If a man die , shall he live again V To unassisted reason , he seems gone for ever ; his place knoweth him no more ; and hereafter there will be no remembrance of him , nevertheless , he will live again ; and many shall rise with him , and call his name blessed . Yes ! the glorious gospel , of which
he was so useful and eminent a preacher , has , we fear not to assert , made itas certain that we shall all live again , as it is certain that we must die ; and then we shall put away those imperfection * which , in some degree or other , attach to us all , or by a course of discipline more or less severe * shall be fitted for an inheritance among the just . " J * J . HigAgate , Aug . 17 , 1615 .
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Memoir oflhe late Rev . Hugh Wdrthington * ¥ f&
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 575, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/15/
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