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REGISTER OF ECCLESIASTICAL DOCUMENTS.
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Jftfajr 18 , of a typhus fever , afterain illness often days , aged 36 , Dr . John Thomson , of Leeds , late of Halifax . His best eulogy will be found in the sentiments of deep and heartfelt regret which the sudden stroke has excited in the breasts of those who knew him . Warmly beloved by his friends , highly respected by the generous
brethren of a liberal profession , universally esteemed , he is now universally lamented . Seldom has the hand of death bl ighted fairer prospects or inflicted a severer wound . In Dr . Thomson , a powerful , enlightened and active mind was united with a fcind and benevolent heart . He had the
will as well as the ability to be , and to do good . His talents were great , and he used them as the instruments of his virtues . As a physician , though but lately settled here , he was already rising into eminence ; and if unwearied diligence in collecting
the material * of medical knowledge , com * bined with great skill in the application of them , could have ensured success , be must have succeeded . To the practical duties of his profession his attention was unwearied , and his patients will bear witness to that unaffected kindness of manner which
always made bis advice doubly acceptable ; which led them to believe that he took a personal rather than a professional interest in their welfare—that he Was their friend as well as their physician . And such , indeed ,
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Further Address of the Society for promoting the Enlargement and Building of Churches and Chapels , [ See pp . 212—214 . ] The extraordinary unanimity with which a bill , grounded opon the
recommendation from the throne ,, for the building of churches and chapels , has just passed into a law , sufficiently attests the existence and magnitude of the evil winch led to the formation of this society , and recognizes the dutv of all to exert themselves for its
remedy . It only remains , therefore , for the committee , now that the provisions of the act are ascertained , to point out the present and peculiar uses of this society ^ and to vindicate its high claims to the patronage of the public , by a slight reference to tile extent of that work , which , notwitbstanding the bounty of the legislature , is still left to the piety of individuals .
For this purpose it will-be , proper shortly to state the limits within which tfae . operation * ., of the act are confined , and . the amount of claims which exist within these Tie parliamentary grant , it appears ,
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was the case ; he considered his fellowmen as , friends * n& brethren , and valued his Christian even more than bis medical profession . It was the first wish of his heart to do good himself , and to teach others to do good in every possible way ; and deeming the moral still more dangerous than the natural maladies of man , be was proportionally anxious to minister to them also . As a . firm believer in the
divine mission of Christ , he considered it a sacred duty to lend all the aid that he could in diffusing the knowledge of the gospel .. A diligent and conscientious inquiry had led him to the peculiar views of religious truth which he ^ entertained , and he therefore exerted himself with zeal in
their diffusion ; but bis zeal was according to knowledge , and consequently without bigotry . For many of those who differed from him most widely , he always felt and expressed the highest regard , and where he dissented honestly on points of faith , could still unite with heart and hand , sincerely and cordially in the spirit of charity .
As a physician and a friend , a fellow-citizen and a fellow-christian , he will be long * and deeply regretted . May the sorrow excited by his sudden and premature death , lead to the earnest emulation of his good example !— " It is tbe end of all men , and the living should lay it to heart . "— -l > ecte Mercury .
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can in no case go in aid of any parish , the population of which is short of 4000 persons , however large its deficiency of church-room may be ; or of any parish , however numerous its population , in which there is accommodation for one-fourth of such population , unless there be 1000 persons resident more than four miles from
the church , or the parish contribute in a satisfactory proportion to the charge of building a new church or chapel . At the same time it is shewn , from official returns , that there are , in twenty-two dioceses only , not fewer than two hundred and fifty parishes , which , containing- in the whole
about three millions of souls , without church-room for one seventh of such po * pulatfon , leave , in places within the regu * lotions of the act , upwards of two millions and a half actually shut out from the means of attending upon the services of the National Church . '" -.. .. .
But it is in the multitude of parishes ( beyond those entitled to share in the milliou , of public money ) , in which parliamentary documents exhibit a deplorable deficiency of church ^ room , and an almost equal need of pecuniary help , tjiat the
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—* Obituary . —Dr . Thornton . —Register of EcelesiaMcal Documents . ' SQ 9
Register Of Ecclesiastical Documents.
REGISTER OF ECCLESIASTICAL DOCUMENTS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 399, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/55/
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