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atfti ' -W xtffiir power , IStidbwed Vrtlt c ^ idydftHT f str&g& of iinderstandin ^ f i ^ Wifeetedl it to itis most importa £ ti £ p bfetig * the ^ requisition of knowl ^ d gej HfelltfWed with the corresponding fronts , tie resided some years at Maidstone ; and ever active and ardent in
his staterof mind , he was very instrumental in establishing a vestry library there * , in the congregation under the pastoral care of the Rev . A . Harris . Even when his health was evidently declining * and it was judged to be netfcssary that he should return to his native place and air , he succeeded in
cdHectinjg tfie youog around him , and informing them into a juvenile society , for the purpose of purchasing more easily , pamphlets , single sermons , and small tracts upon religious subjects , fort the improvement of their minds in knowledge . In this he took a leading part during the progress of his disorder * until bodily debility prevented him . Yet after this , his inquiries , and the best
energies of his mind , were still directed to religious subjects : and this , not from the apprehension of approachiD £ xifctftb , thougfc convinced that he should hot r * oov <* r * but from the full satisfectiorr he experienced in those views of tJw divine perfections and govern-XBkxxti&n&&f ® t > d ! 9 revealed will , which as they niBtfee their appeal to the un-<§ &fct * tidi $ f& * communicate also unfailing ooBsoiatioG to the heart . Exhausted at
fist ^ smallest exertion , he yet ahfays received the writer of this brief mte * dt # with a smile of complacency ; n » fC 4 n I find that in any period of his disorder , &i * e murtnvti ing word escaped him . He was buried by his own request in the Unitarian Chapel-yard , Mr- Hasten delivering the funeral
ors ^ wp * v-- ^ y Let the young reflect upon the uncertain tenure by which they hold I heir ^ € s ^ ir | t ^ a ^ thly _ existence . . Let them C ^ a the unspeakable value of religious iripci ^ le , in their hoar of greatest need , axfed ;^ ppjy their hearts unto wisdom .
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( but howJal ^ qiQus . & e ^ evyJ § p ^ <*^ tioti which frai ] mortajs caij enj ^ ffainj : to address yau , tj > is day ^ in ^ e ; | a 4 ^ gua g ^ e of unalloyed ^ CQa ^ atul ^ ti op ^ v The sovereign Creator of heayeo ajo d earth hath , indeed , put a H ^ w soj > g > into our mouths , by the great friul
marvellous things he has done among the nations , and how , in t } ie contemplation of them , is every pious heart prompted to cry out , with hoiy ex * ultation , " O majenify the Lord with me , and let us exalt his name tQge-, ther . " Bat in this ciiequered scene * , there is appointed unto man , a time
to mourn , as well as a time to rejpice . At such a time , do 1 ^ with heai't-felt concern , now appear before youl Trie complicated and extensive loss which has been sustained , in the death of my valued , and Of very many of y < ni and of others not present the valued , or
rather invaluable friend , MRwDanvers has made on the hearts of us alia deep impression . In speaking of him , ( for I should do violence , not only to my own feelings , but what weighs more with me # to your ' s , were I to be silent ) I am much restrained by what I know would have been his own wishes
had he expressed them on the suj *? ject , and likewise by the rule- whicji your ministers observe , and forol > Yiw «§ reasons , an similar occasions of being Sparing of praise * Rarely , howev « er ^ has a similar occasion presented it ? self , 00 wfeich praise might justly fc # bestowed with less reserve , and otzi which it would be heard with a more
general concurrence of sentiment and feeling than on the present , TJbc gloom , the dejection and the sorrow his loss has occasioned , manifest the estimation in which be was held fry you , and constitute a tribute alike honourable to you that render , and to hi til ,- —no ,-not to him—to the memory of him that receives it .
'JThose , win * can recur to bin early days , and who know what was then the ma 1111 er oi * his life , . bear Itim witness that ( C Me feared tjie Lprd from his . - youth * ' He eaieee . 4 betimes ax the wayte sbtiuW gp ^ aud as . be
advanced in- iifelte yHd » Qt depart rftrofm k . Thiie exceUenee o | tb « ^ pi 1 » cip 4 ^ K by wliich , he-w ^ as actnateil ; wa * , wncti 1 iirsr kwew ^ hi m + < exRWip } iiiriilyciillttWlirfited i > y the ^ spect ^ ii and ittfectiourtrte attention with which he was adminffitering to his aged mother , under th «*
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V ¦* ( m ' . { I- * ' 1 ' - I * ' > ' 1 ¦ ¦ ij ^ wMr ;^ "' io ^ te Cangr ^ gatioj ^ X ^ wi ^ ' ¦ ^^ f M 9 a ^^ iM r . p ^ th c Rev * Joliri Rorme * ... ¦ &i \ he < rcceriiDeathq £ Afr . C . Ipahvers * ¦ ' v , < .. , ¦ - - _ + } ' * ; * 1 x '''¦ ¦ i \ i ' s < -s - v .. ¦ - u - -Sp im po | tt ? Lat i and at the same time , so ttnWkcd Jo ^ . jtWa di . ^ ay fiil arc the events which have occurred since I last stood in this place , that I expected
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 315, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/59/
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