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instructions of Mr . ' W . ' s learned and zealous predecessor Mr . Sam . Charles , ) bequeathed several estates for the use of the poor , and for the purposes of education in this town and adjacent
places , and his valuable library to the chapel in Bowl-Alley Lane . Mr . Chamberlain appears , if any opinion may be formed from his library , to have been a man of taste and learning . Most of the books are in the dead
languages , and amongst its treasures are , Walton ' s Polyglott Bible , Trostius' Sy riac New Testament , the works of many of the Greek and Latin Fathers , the Maittaire Classics , and
several other good editions of Horace , . Juvenal , Cicero , &c . j Camden ' s Britannia , Thoresby \ s Leeds , and other works in high estimation . It is evidently designed and calculated rather for the use of a minister than of the
majority of the members of a religious societv . The trustees of his charities are required to be members of the society in Bowl-Alley Lane . The funds are considerable , and the trustees are enabled , in fulfilment of the wishes of the testator , to contribute a small sum to the salary of the minister , £ 10 to the education of a student for
the ministry , ( at Manchester College , York , ) to distribute eighteen-pence and a loaf of bread weekly , to about twenty poor persons at the chapel , to support a hospital for the aged at Sutton , three miles from Hull , and a hospital and school at Selby , of which kst Rev- T . Smith is master . The
will is dated 1716 , and its liberal and judicious provisions may be considered as an encouraging proof of the good effects attending religious instruction . Mr . Wilter was succeeded in the pastoral office by Mr . Titus
Cordingley , about May , 1755 . This amiable young man continued to hold this office only two years and a halfV when he died of a decline , much lamented by his acquaintance . [ Mon . Repos . V . 325 , 326 . ]
At the end of the year 17 ^ 7 , he was succeeded by Mr . John Bevcrley , a native of York . Tbis gentleman was educated at the University of Glasgow . He was a man of considerable learning , an elegant and interesting preacher , and an industrious student of the sacred volume . He was eminently distinguished for wairu benevolence of heart and suavity of
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manners , qualities which never forsook him from the first dawn of youthful vivacity , to the composed and tranquil serenity with which his evening * of life was accompanied and closed . No one can say that he was ever injured
by Mr . Beverley , and numbers attest , with tears of gratitude , the services they have received from him . It is not too much to say , that had he been reduced to his last six-pence , he would have shared it with the needy . It is scarcely necessary to add , that
such a man was the delight of his companions , and that he secured the uniform and general respect of the town and neighbourhood in which he resided . His pulpit services were distinguished by neatness , perspicuity and simplicity and occasionally by
exhortations uncommonly affectionate , persuasive and pathetic . If ever there was an occasion when Mr . Beverley ' s temper rase beyond its ordinary level , it was when he had occasion to speak of Popery . When he discoursed of its gross perversions of Christian
doctrine , the idolatry which itintroduced into public worship , the immoral reservations and indulgences which it authorized , and its artful policy to keep the people in slavery and darkness , he seemed to lose the controul of his indignation . But his
indignation was no unhallowed flame fed by party spirit * , but the honest displeasure of an ingenuous and pious mind , in contemplating the best of heavenly gifts perverted to the worst of purposes , by the passions and worldlymindedness of men . His sentiments
were Unitarian , but his was the office of the pioneer to the army of truth $ preparing the way , by removing prejudices and smoothing asperities , for bolder and more unequivocal declarations of Unitariariisni in more recent times .
His familiar intercourse with mankind was marked with the gentlenesif of the lamb . His customary reply , in the latter part of his life , to inquirers after his health , " going gently down the vale , " is remembered by many ,
and was no less characteristic of the temper with which he past through life , than of the gradual and almost imperceptible decline with which h 6 retired from it . His picture hangs in the vesjtry .. He resigned the pastoral office ill
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668 History of Dissenting Meeting-House , Bowl-Alley Lane , Hulh
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1818, page 668, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2482/page/4/
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