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    j& aster , John ixl 4 , ** I must work the ytf 6 rk '"' bf him that sent me while it is day" &c . and on rhe 12 th of Dec . he pre . chv-d ( for the Jast time ) from the admonition of the Apostle , <; Brethren , give di . ioenc * . to make your ca-Uine ; and

    e ' -TCr-ion ; u e , " —;> n which day , according M ) the new style , he entered his -eighty second year IDurin ^ his confinement to his bed which vas only sU days , he oanifested t :-e atmost rcsi 'nation , and beheld the approach of death vith serene boldness ,

    blen > d with tbt transport of a Christian ' s hope The unb lever might have beheui the scene wit »* sorrowful reflection on his own death , and thi * friends of Calvinism have seen lhat the hope of other Christ ' ans can enliven the hearts or * ts possessors even in a dying hour . The interment took p i ; ce on the

    30 th of Dec amidst an almost unprecedented number of relatives and a large concourse of spectators . A fane ; al sermon >\ as preach'd in * be eveniiig by Mr Thoma fayne , of Bui wash , from a passage of scripture chosen by the de

    ceased I ^ a . I ; 19 . 20 , to a numerous audience of different denominations . Mr . Coupland of Htadcorn addresstd the Society on the sunday folio ving from ii Cor . s , 11 whii . h words their venerable Pastor left as his last sincere and affectionate advice . D . S-

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    Mrs : Sarah Parkes , On Tuesday the 14 th of December last died Mrs . Sarah Parkts , wife of Mr Samuel *' arkes of Goswell street , London , in the 40 th . year of her age . When persons holding a rank in society si - ilar to lhat o the deceased , are removed from this sublunary scene of thinqs , a fe \ i hones ! tears are shed

    by the afflicted relatives , the rites of sej » ultuie are performed , the lost individuals sleep in silence with their fathers , and afteY the lapse of a few years are forgotten for ever . I . , however , the opinion , entertained by many be a correct one , that virtue , in its most erect and exalted foiniF , often exit ? in the middle , and even in the

    " more humble walks of life , there can surely be no impropriety in exhibiting the charactei ofone ofth « _ - most retired and unostentatious to the vi < w ol the public , and in recommending an interesting tonmple of departed worth tu general imit ^ tioa .

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    6 S Obituary . —Mrs . S . Parkes .

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    Should it be thought that some of the incidents which affectionate partiality may record are too trifling to be submitted to the view of the public , let the reader recollect that the felicities of life are made up of triiles > and that a

    truly benevolent mind will think nothing to be beneath its notice , however insignificant , which has a tendency ta promote the comfort of our fellow-creatures , or to disseminate virtue and happiness . The subject of this short memoir was and

    the daughter of an eminent grazier considerable miller , who was himself the younger branch of a very respectable family , in one of the midland coun » ties of England . Her parents bejng Protestant Dissenters , of the class usually called rational , she was brought up in the habit of attending sectarian

    worship , and at the usual age was sent forty miles -from home to a female semi * nary , which at that time was in considerable repute among the Dissenters of that district . Here , as she often expressed i ? , the foundation was laid of that " habitual nervous irritability which

    embittered all her days : for here , as in many other large schools at that period , the same portion of food was'doted out alike to all , without any Tegard to the appetite or wants of any particular individuals ; and the growing hungry girl who rose month after month from

    every meal only half satisfied , would be very likely to carry home a shattered , if not a broken , constitution . In returning from this miserable seminary she came again under the care

    of a mother who was endowed with qualities of the head and of the heart , which made her a blessing to her family , and fitted her in a peculiar manner for giving her daughters that sort of education which is best calculated

    for the promotion of domestic respectability and comfort . This excellent woman was so desirous of qualifying them for the superintendence of houses of their own , that , although she had a large family and many servants around her , some portion of the

    household work was every week allotted to i ach of the children , in order that in their turns , they might learn every thing ; becfause , as she used to say , if , when they became heads of families themselves , they should have no occasion for this active exertion , the knowledge would b « no burden to them , and

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 68, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/68/