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the most bigoted and persecuting , despotic and unprincipled royal family in Europe , to ike ill-fateVt thrones of France , Spain , and Naples , to be esteemed among the said benefits and blessings ? If so , the love of Freedom and Protestantism must have left us . Chw < rueriete saay ask further , if the evident revival of the vile principles of intolerance and religious persecution , with
ail the arbitrary and slavi&h maxims of the days of the Stuarts , are to be deemed bene * &ts , wbich eali for exultation and thanksgiving *? Some of the answerers probably wouid say , no : we exult , for the peace , ajid the glory which England has acquired . The others might reply—As to peace , we have : made none with the French nation ^ but , only with kiln whom we have forced
upon it , who was our tool and onr pen . sfoner : and as to glory % is it any other than that of having done more than any othes nation towards perpetuating the enslavement and miseries of mankind ?*
" Such a man as Mr . Richards is a loss to society at larg * , and one which in his immediate neighbourhood can scarcely be supplied . Jt is seldom that in a town like Ejnns , a * individual can be found who , possessed of those virtues which adorn the
ma * and the Christian , and gifted with le&tniag mud talents , will dare to assert the eights of Mao , an 4 vindicate the great principles 06 Freedom . Let us- hope that his spirit has infused itself among his fellowtownsmen , and that those principles will grid * their public conduct , which it was the study of his life to promote .
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The conduct of this pious and virtuoa * youth towards his . parents and all who knew him , was such as to engage their confidence and affection ; and bis loss , their tender regret . The cause of his death was a rapid decline . In the prospect of the great change before nim he maintained a full conviction of the truth
of those principles which he Jiad been led to embrace . On the night before his death , and expecting the last summons £ very bour , he particularly expressed , la the presence o £ his parents , who stoodL by his dying bed , and the writer of this article , in the clearest and most animated : manner , hi * views and hopes a full of a blessed joinaortahty . ^
The readers of the Monthly Repository , and the friends and professors of pure Christianity , will , without doubt , e ©«^ template in this young person an additional evideaeo to the many which fomm been already given of tfie power of Unita rian principles , in persons of all age * jt& cheer and support the mind : at the hcrar of death . To their power , is thes # ie »
speefs , when united- with a pious anu virtuous life , the writer of this accoufet , who has had the experience of nearly forty years : as a minister of the gospel , kaowa aot a single exception i " O Death , where is thy sting ? O Graye , where is thy vie * tory ? Thanks be to God who givetb us the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord . " w Jf •
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Obituary—Charles Proggatt . —Mrs . Piarson . 0 &i
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Sept . 14 , at Sheffield , in the 16 th year c # his age , Charles Frog oat * . He was one of the monitors of the boys * Sunday school belonging to the Upper or Unitarian Chapel in Norfolk-street . This youth was remarkable for the amiableness of his
disposition and manners , which were united with a clear and strong understanding , and an ardent desire after knowledge and improvement . Young as he Was , he had read much , and was in the habit of serious reflection . He had made himself well acquainted with the Doctrines of Unitarian
Christianity * and comparing what was delivered from the putyit , ' or taught in books which he had afecfess' toy'With the Old and New Testaments , j he felt assured that there is but u owe God , and one Mediator between God arid men , the man Christ Jesua" 1 Tiro . li . 5 .
The unity and moral government of God were advocated by him on various occasions , ( as the writer of this account has been informed , ) in . a very masterly wa among his companions arid friends ; and hj » fainiJy hare bfaeh led hy his cx-Attiple , and a ipirit of inquii-y , to join ifcuBm selVt * with the Unitariaa church .
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October 1 , Mrs . Pearson , wife ctf M % Joseph Pearson , of Wolverhamptom Brought up from her infancy , by exeek lent parents , in the nurture and admomi tiou of the Lord , her conduct through life was , in every respect , truly exemplary : her piety was sincere and ferrent , without ostentation : her manners and
disposition engaging , kind and amiable : she secured the cordial esteem of those wlko shared in her friendship and regardj , and will long live in their memories and affections . Her constitution , for many years , l » ad be * en feeble and delicate ; her last illness painfully distressing and exctuciating ; but , animated by the cheering vie w * she
and precious hopes of the gospel ^ wat enabled to support it with great calmnesff , fortitude and resjgnatioir . Thus expired this hig-hly-estieemed and excellent woman , deeply regretted by an exteitsi ve circle of friends , leaving her afflicted husband and
Children the consolation ( in the midst of their severe bereavement ) of reflecting upon her virtuous and well-spent life and happy death , and of anticipating the pleasing hope , that ^ irhen the morning" of the resurrection shall burst the cfcuinr of death asunder , they shall then be eternaUjr re-uAittd in » state ^ deatiiless tming .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 651, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/51/
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