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Wr \ M . tfrough his salary of late years was little more than twenty pound * pei annum , contrived to live wiihtri his income , and by the economical management of the liberality of his friends , he was enabled to leave behind him a stfflifciency to co ^ er the expenres of his funeral ( which was conducted in a de
cert and respectable manner ) , and a feW small legacies , among others half a gtrinea each to four poor old widows This is a circumstance which may appear to some too trifl ng to be mentioned , Dirt tfre feeling and benevolent mind will appreciate its importance . —It may stand higher in the records of heaven
than many showy deeds which attract the admiration of the World . Those respectable genrlernen who bad been kind to Mr M in life , paid their last tribute of respect to his remains by attending tfckm to the grave on the 16 th iris ' t . Oh the following Sunday a sermon was preached on the occasion , to a full-congregation , of almost all religious
denominations , by T . Davis , of Coventry , from the promise made by oar Juordto P ^ ter , ? ' And the gates of death xfiall not prevail against it . " The tears which were not sparingly shed by the congregation , when the speaker deli vefed his thoughts of the character , and practically applied the death of Mr , M . were the best attestation to the truth of
some remarks already made , and strongly evinced how he was respected and beloved as a good man . The interest at Alcester is certainly low . But there are some respectable individuals very desirous of perpetuating the cause of rational religion ia the place , and there is good reason to hope , that a Jealous , active , evangelical ( I xise the word in what I consider its
pYoper acceptation ; preacher would raise a good congregation . Mr . Wright visited Alcester a few months ago , and his services left a very considerable impression . Without some foreign encouragement the cause must drop . The meeting-house is a very excellent , commodious building . The case deserves the attention of Unitarians . N . Coventry , Feh > 23 , 181 4 *
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Rev . Jos . Marshall . 'Oh Thursday , Feb . 17 th , 1814 , died , m the 74 th year of his age , the Rev * J oseph Marshall , who had beea
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Obituary . —Rev * Jos . Marshall . 24 S
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almost forty-nine years- pastor of a dissenting congregation at Lidget , near Hudderarield . He was a native of Leeds , and descended from a family of truly respectable character . Modest and urrassuming , he seemed to have possessed no ambition beyond that of doing good in the retired situation which Providence
had allotted him . His temper was mild and peaceable , his manners courteous , his conversation instructive ; and for every good word and work he waj aEways ready . Over the people of hi charge he watched with tender solicitude : and in him the doubting and perplexed found a prudent counsellor ,
the sorrowful a soothing comforter , arid the indigent a generous benefactor . His heart was the seat of moderation * and candour . Humble in his opinion of himself , he was ever open to conviction ; and upon no occasion was he heard to utter the language of uncharitable censure concerning those whose
religious sentiments he most disapproved . And , though his high sense of propriety in conduct unavoidably made him quicksighted to any deviation from it in others , yet never was he known to blaze abroad their faulta or to speak of them with exaggeration : and to slander and calumny his lips were strangers . If he
noted the failings of others , it was by way of caution to himself : if he noticed them , it was by a friendly admonition to the parties themselves . But the distinguishing feature in his character was rational and fervent piety . His
prayers were the effusions of a devout heart ; and it was scarcely possible to join him in acts of worship without feeling a . portion of the spirit with which he was inspired . Piety was in him an habitual principle . A firm persuasion , that all things are appointed by infinite Wisdom and Goodness , and therefore
that all are ordered for the best , prevented him from complaining , and disposed him to reprove those who complained , on account of weather un « fkvourable to the agricultural pursuits in which he and they were engaged : and it led him to an entire submission
to the will of God under tho repeated and very grievous domestic afflictions with which he waa exercised . In short . he was , in every sense of the expression , * a perfect and upright man / 1 And accordingly , lc his end was peace . " Bi « health was upon the whole very much on the decline for many months before
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1814, page 245, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2439/page/45/
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