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l > een coherent . * *** * * % I firmly believe in an all-wise and beneficent God , on whose mercy and justice I can safely rely when I appear in his presence . My sentiments of the Christian religion are peculiar to myself ; but I consider its
various facts and symbols to l > e of divine origin . It has beeh my misfortune that I was not regularly educated or grounded in religion ; but my principles of happiness are for the benefit of all ; and I consider it as the principle of divine justice to dispense substances to others for shadows to itself .
I am no self-concentrated being ; but Providence , nature , fortune and man kind seem to have conspired against a spirit not ungentle , though , perhaps , unhappily wedded to its material nature . Accept of my warmest gratitude to yourself and to my aunt for
the many benefits I have received from you , and which I could wish that at were in my power to return , from far better motives than such as may be traced to a sense of labouring * pride . Our friend ¦ is justly entitled to the same acknowledgment !"
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her big-My-esteemed pastor , the Rev ; Dr . Philipps , through the medium of a friend , as the subject of her funeral discourse 5 but owing * to the Doctor ' s absence , the subject was anticipated by another minister . Sheffield , July 1 , 1818 .
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June 12 , at Sheffield , after a protracted and severe illness , which she bore with the truest resignation , Mrs . Elizabeth Moobehouse , aged 38 years , relict of Mr . John Moorehouse , surgeon in Sheffield , Yorkshire . To four orphans , this maternal bereavement will be an irreparable loss ; whilst her afflicted relatives and numerous
friends , to whom her goodness of heart had long endeared her , will cherish her memory with mingled feelings of unfeigned affection and sincere regret . She , as well as her late husband , were members of the Unitarian Church in Sheffield y and zealously attached to that faith " which was once delivered to the saints . "
Mr . M . was suddenly removed from his family and friends , by a fall from his horse ; in consequence of which his skull was fractured , and ail the efforts of sulogical attention and ski / 2 to restore his life proved fruitless . This fatal event occurred in the
summer of 1815 . His affectionate relict bore her loss with Christian fortitude : but her naturally delicate constitution received that shock from the event of which it never fully recovered , end a complication of disorders brought her at last to the grave .
During * her long illness , her mind received increasing * satisfaction , comfort and support from the principles of Unitarian Christianity . These principles she had embraced from the ; fullest conviction , ( th& result of serious inquiry , ) having' been originally educated in the doctrines of the Church of England .
By her particular request , verses 13 , 14 : and 18 of chap . iv . of St . Paul's first Epistle U > the Tliessalonjans were recommended to
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Obituary *—Mrs . Elizabeth Moorehduse >—Mr $ . Ifonei * 0 > § 25
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• 16 , in Dublin ) Mrs . Hone , wife of Joseph Hone , of Harcourt-street , Esq ., daughter of I eland Crosthwait ; Esq , and the mother of thirteen children . It would not be easy to conceive a heavier calamity than this . Her whole labours were devoted , with an anxiety and tenderness not to be surpassed , to the improvement and
happiness of her numerous offspring * y and the home of her respectable husband and promising- family was the abode of the most endearing" felicities of domestic life . Generous in-her disposition , mild and unassuming in her manners , of candour the
most sincere , of affection the warmest and most steadfast , passing- a life of active and irreproachable virtue , she was an object of the fondest regard , aud of the highest and most animated esteem , in the extensive circle of relatives and friends with which
she was connected . X . No scenes in the brief and varyingjourney through the world can be more truly delightful than those in which Mrs . Hone acted so meritorious a part , and from which she has been called to depart at an
early period ; but the remembrance of her excellence will last while memory endures . Life is not to be measured by the length of days , but by those good deeds which may be crowded within even a very narrow compass \ and in this class is Mrs . Hone to be
numbered . The anguish which mortality produces in the breasts of relatives and friends is not to be described , and the tear of sympathy is a thousand times of more efficacy , when it iningles with the grief that is not to be subdued , than all the other means of
condolence which can be administered ; but the return of calmer reflection , the recollection of those lovely features of character which were once the themes of adiniration and the contemplation of that inheritance which is reserved for the righteous , and for the eternal re-union of those who have
acted well upon earth , will soothe the mind in to ^ liose complacent feelings , which can bear with pious resignation the deepest
sorrows . Mrs . Hone was an Unitarian , and a constant attendant at divine service in Eustacestreet Meeting-house , where her greatgrandfather , Dr . Leland , hud been minister .
Her" children have been instructed , as they advanced in age , in the knowledge of the One only true God , and of Jesus Christ his beloved ^ Son , in w \ om he was well pleased .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 525, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/53/
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