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teamed , to the assistance of seven charities Which he specified . With the same view , he g £ ve a srrn ^ of money tb the Corporation * of Bristol , to augment
-a fund , of which- { that bodyT has the application , for Telieying blind persons , b y granting Jf ? lO a year tQ each recipient . Th . y charity wtiich for a long time occupied his attention , is worthy of its aclvocate : it was to raise a sum of
money to enable all the inhabitants iri the ahnshnuses of Bristol to receive at present equal to the intention of the founders of the several almshouses , or to grant 5 j > . ]> et week to each of-them . It is unnecessary to . add , that his own contributions were . suited to the magnitude of the design . To him the
Samaritan Society owes its origin . Its object is to relieve those cases , which other charities could not assist . Many persons w * ho have been patients in the infirmary , many who are recovering from sickness , many who have been recalled from vicious habits , and have
formed virtuous resolutions , often suffer greatly before they can gain employment , or pursue their former avocations with effect . Through want of temporary aid lasting difficulties frequently arise * To bestow this aid , and to Ieai the members of a society to do what their Saviour hath cornrraamded , was
the intention of the Institution , which bears the name its founder justly merited , the Samaritan . Hence it will appear that although Mr . Reynolds was solicitous to avoid praise , he was tiot inactive , or merely fallowing fche suggestions of the weft disposed . He was ever ready to excite ' others to fulfil the trust cotmrtttted to
their care . His-manner of appeal in behalf of the distressed did not derive its only force from his own . example . TheAfewas an appeal to tbe judgment and to . tlie iieart which coufot scatcely be resisted . On one occasion : of this
kiti ( j f it is said , that when addressing a gentlouiao whom he supposed to be rich , in order to stimulate nia exertions , be re ^ arfced , < c When . goM encircles the heart it contracts to such a degtee that no good can issue from it ; out wheH live pure gold of faith and fove
gets into the heart it expands'ity and < rauses each dri > p of blood 'to ( tow * throwgrvtbe cb « mi « ls oC benevolence . " In fai 3 Tfte w ^ wit nesse d the truth oi the r ^ eipark , «* VfbeH the ejN ? saw him it w ^ s jg | f | 4 t v ^ tep the c ^ r httamj him it
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rejoiced . " d ^ rpitst ^^ be I ^ ft &--Clark ^ o n / to recount his serviceVtowai ^ the abolition of the Slave Trade '^ HA ameliorating the condition of the cm : pressed Negro : it must 'be left to ^ AIieto tell arhehath done
. n w ^ for ft e edufcatrotv , of ti ^ e" poor : it mvvst be Jeft tr > an Ow « n to Enumerate his -tetie < kctions to -the British iaxifi JEferejgn j Bible Society : and to an Hafrnson , or some other member of the Soeietyof Frieftds
to enumerate Mr . fte ^ rnolds ^ gifts to the various charitable instmnioh * belonging to that respectable class df Christians . Mr . Reyrmlds * Continued a zealous and consistent fnetriber of the society in which he-was born and
educated . In him thiey have lost a burning and shining light of faithv hope , and charity—in him a firm and consistent supporter of one of their fundamental principles , that all wars are uwjtist , impolitic , and unchristian : « hi * 'him they nave lost one , who wau eve * calling
them to use therr utmost efforts to ameliorate th * condition f of the ^ distressed , whether Indian ^ Afrieati , err JBriton . Mr . Reynolds embYaced with ardour the hope that our petml stdtnfes % vould become less sanguinary- ^ and that capital punts hit ) ents would fee rc £ mored from our code . When theckifetw ^
of bis native place had determined trpdn building a new guol , Mt ^ R . ^ ms pe ^; culiatly solicitous that the ittiprwe--j ments upon the plans of a Howai ^/ hi Munich , America and other cpuntfidj , f irtight be concentered in' Bristol . Me wished for the moral and Tellgtcnts tai * provement of those who hadvibla ^ d
the laiws of their coon try | anfd considered it incumbent to a'ppy kiifdrtcss . instruction and the motives of indmuy , to recal tlVe oftender to the paths w integrity . To tteee the tnore pbttic ? acts of 'thra p hilanthropist wotiW dc ^ eupy the vwhole of the pages df i periodical publicatiem ' J but i& etitflnerate his private exertioYis-to c 6 rnfotVthe widow , to hc 4 p tHe fatherless , to raise t 4 ie despenditr ^ , to encourage ^ thV » n »
dustrious ahd to rewatdnKe ^^^ W i would require a volume , an'd even ^ tnw the . language of the queen of S ^^ , when $ he had witnessed rhe w idaP ^ t Solomon , might be emptoyed ;™ W » , half hath been toM to" He rt 6 ^ r ^ fr < m his febdtfps ; but his wotki fm fbHtDwbim . T • . --i muLjf' * < The closing sc ^^ s * ' 5 f h « 4 ift ^ S *«
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ut it S C * Cm ^ r ^ r ^ Mr . Ricf ^ rdReynolds :
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1816, page 618, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2457/page/54/
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