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    another extract as it shfcws the tenderness of his friendships as Well a $ the elegance of his mmd . It te dated July 3 , 1798 : Found toy aged mother and liiiifaerous friends Well , The countty is beautiftiL The extensive and variegated prospects cheer my heart The bbrft and hay are

    abundant § fruit is in great plehty , . p articularly cherries . I ttaVe every thing here to ihake ipe hap ; py 9 Save the Want of an amiable friend ; X Weeks . His death is esteemed a ^ nei al loss in

    this neighbourhood . I shall visit his widdw in her fprjoritii abode this evesning . He was buried In the tneetingyard last Saturday , ktnidst a great concourse of sympathizing friends and neighbours . I am to preach a funeral discourse next Sunday afteiraodto on the sad occasion . It will be a trial 16

    me * I love . my friends , kxid feel tH 6 separating stroke most severely , Hk was cut off in his 27 th year « I shall &ee iiis face 110 more on earth—no more hear his friendly ^ oice—too more tread with him the pleasing paths of science—no more have his example of faith and unshaken integrity to

    stimulate my sluggish he&rt in the [ path of duty—ho more shall I take sweet counsel with him—110 more mingle my soul . with his in the sacred exercises of friendship ! Like a rose half blown * forcibly torn off by the east wind , so his fine form is blasted by the hand of death I I now , for the

    first time , feel the full meaning- of that saying , Thy friend that is as thine oicn soul . O ., how severe is , the parig of parting 'from such I But I correct

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    From the late Rev . Edward Evdnsbn to the jRe ^ . Thotnas Howe . Sir , JBridportyiSlo \) . 8 , 1817 . ABOUT fifteen years ago I was , by the civility of a common friend , introduced to the late Rev . Edwatrd ! &vkhg # h , krid dftei ^ W ard s had

    the Mppiiiess of raahjriiiterVieVvS with faitii . Our conversation ^ iras geiieraHy oh thiecilogickl itibrjecte ^ arid tttough I w ^ obliged frequently to differ from him in ilie positions he advanced , yet 1 ailWay ^ aift it With Wit d ^ fereiiice "Mblifih I kb ^ w ^ to be a ^ tb ^ ^««^

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    thfefeeKngs of my hfeirt-4 adore " thfe wisdoto and goodness of Hiib Whd giveth ind % ho taketh away , a& seemeth best to hinaseliFL Blit sure his goodness Will not blame nig for tlifc

    involuntary exercise of those feelings which he has ftnplanted in my ntitifreo But I must lay my hand u ^ 6 nriatif mouth , I must be silento Thetifaa&uiof memory are in some ciitiimstanc&s

    great s but there are pains of memory also : he who has a heart t <> febjoy th £ former , Itmst alsb Uke a potiicki of th ^ latt ^ eir ;—well , be rt ^ o , thie ^ cbouiit U wisely balanced . I take that Which is aMotted to tne , and &av , « Fathei ^ th ^ will be dohe . ' " ' ¦

    Shoiild a life of Mr , Vidi& ! be evsi written , what an excelletit oj > poti . tunity would it be to consider tM general stkte of Christianity piftor t 6

    the year 1791 V ai ^ d the hevir era of liberality in sentiment and pitectiefe that has taken place since that peiibdp and of the great in 9 uence ill e Waudtitiik Of Mr . Witichester and Mr . ^ idl ei- hid

    in pi'dducing it by their widely e ± ~ tended pr&aching of the doctnne of the Universal Restoration : which , fey leading Christians to fceaircn the Scriptures iis the fountain-head of religipu ^ insti ' uctrbn , has laid & fotittdatiicm for

    the knowledge of the Unity of Grbd , and the removal of every obstiacle to the reception of pure Christianity throughout the world ! Thanking you for your indulgence in admitting these addenda to the meiiidirs of my late much , respected friend ,, I reikiaihp &c . To Ao TEUTON .

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    mbn so superior to myself in ' erudition arid literary attainih ^ nts . Aeqtiaifttedl also with the noble sacriffcfe he had made to the dictates of hte coitiscietic ^ e , in resigning his valuable liViwg arid ^ 11 his flattering prospects 6 T j > referment in the EststKlished Chiirch , the y ^ sp ^ cl with which I Viewed Km Wds raised even to i * e % erence for his GhristS ^ ft

    fortitude hnd itifle ^ ible itil ^ grily ; I considered Mm ats a sihcerfe b ^ H ^ V ^ r hf Christianity , though I tdtilcl mfc but lament that he thoiught so light ! j icif titotafo i > f ! < flwfe- proofe of < i % i ^ itcli

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    Letters Worn tfie Ikie Mev , Bdtbecrd Bvafosow to ike Web ° T 7 &dnim M 6 w > £ ~ * f

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/7/