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tranquil enjoyments , of obedient appetites , f > f rwelL * regulated affections , of maturity u knowledge , and ' calm preparation for iittmortatiity . In this serene and dignified fctatey placed as it tverc on the confines of tiifo worlds , the mind of a good man reviews what is past with the complacency < wf a good conscience , look * forward with bumble confidence in the mercy of God ,
and with devout aspiration to bis eternal aftd ever-increasing favour ! " - The days ' jtf" our , years are threescore years and fen , and if by reason of strength they bm foitr-* &are years , yet is their strength labour 4 xnd sorrow > for it is soon cut off , and we fly away . So teach us to number our days , that ivc may apjrly our hearts unto the acquisition of Substantial wixdorn . J . EVANS . Islington , Ftb . 18 * 1817 .
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Pied on t \ ie 2 5 th day of January , Thomas Compton , one of the Society of Friends , at . his house , in Booth Street , Spitalfields , aged nearly 6 " 8 years , leaving a disconsolate widow ( an example of > every conjugal and maternal virtue , ) eight sons , and four daughters , to sympathize with her in affliction .
He was a valuable member of society at large , without the shadow of sectarian principles ;* and a most active guardian of the poor , in whose service may be traced the more immediate cause of bis dissolution . At the soup and parish poor houses in
that extensive district , be will long be remembered for his assiduity ; and each surviving associate in the wide field of labour , will yield to him the merit of most ^ watchful and unceasing exertion , even at the sacrifice of health . Domestic
comfetft or private business , nevfer presented an obstacle to his impression of public duty . After the confinement of abotft * week tttliis chamber , and the progressive decay of nature , he quietly breathed his last
in entire resignation , without sigh or froan—and although no cenotaph will record his worth , it is embalmed in the hearts of his immediate descendants , and many others , who can truly adopt the language of the Psalmist , ¦ — * ' Behold the upright : for the end of that man is peace /*
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? Yet was he a firm believer in the simple and sublime doctrine of the Unity aftd Supremacy of God the Father . See Foster ' s Narrative ^ '&c . p . 351 , and the review of that ( Work > Mon . Itepos . VoL X . p . * 4 (? .
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Died at Hdnerthn , near fJachhey Matwabet ANtf 0 LENFN £ i ) t / L , aged 9 yteafoi and 6 months : so little advanced in life , shoi t must be this memoir of fcer "fcxiste&cV ! To a heart overflowing with affectiott tjt > her parents and friends , and tnrremittin kinduets to every living creature witftifr her reach , she united Sticto L cheWftil alacrity " both of body and mind as endeared
her to every one who knew her t her anxiety fbr information and consequent progress in knowledge , made lie * r tlie de-*« red companion of many toore advanced in years , * whilsfe her fond parents irkiufgeo the delightful dream of a future expansion of intellect , forming a character , in wliich knowledge , benevolence and utility , weuld have been eminently conspicuous .
Though the taste for composition had not appeared , yet its dawn la the taste of selection was often exerted ; amongst other instances of this , she had chosen from the numerous pieces in the ** Origin *! Pooms , " " The Address to the Vibkt ' ( Vol . II . p . 113 ) ; this she wrote out and directed as a letter to her * ' deaf father , " and placed where she was certain he would meet with it . On the first of Jttne
of the past year , it pleased the Sovereign Disposer of all events to remove her from this state of being!—those who have lost a child so justly endeared , can best feel for her afflicted parents ! < c Oh , if tbou hoverest round our walk , Or under every well kaown tree . ; We to thy fancied shade would talk . Whilst every tear is full o / thee I "
Blessed with a promise of uncommon intellectual strength , taken from the Ufa of this world at so early an age , the hopes of 4 * er friends and parents thus untimely frustrated —~ yet let not her removal be
adduced as an instance o £ premature dissolution inevitably attending the speedy unfolding of such mental powers : here th « re was nothing to sanction such an idea , her disorder was entirely . unconnected with the head . Mankind would
indeed be a tremendous abortion , if the early opening of intellect was necessarily accompanied by early death . Let us not weaken our attempts in assisting the perpetual improvement of mind , so far as our individual exertions can forward it , by bo palsying a consideration- —the suggestion of a despairing isoagination . If the finest
production of the Father of Being should only be doomed , by hie parental fiat , like the meteor of a moment , to a momentary duration , the consoling idea of the perpetual improve ability of mind would have in this woild at least , nothing to retvard its exercise but unaccomplished , though perpetual effort ; nothing but a bareles * calculation , and that deferred hope which
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Obituary . —Thrtrias Cvihpion .- *—Margatet Ann Clennell / Tiij
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1817, page 119, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2461/page/55/
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