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March 24 , at Caermarthen , his native place , sincerely beloved and lamented , Mr . William Morris , late of Manchester . He bore his long and severe illness , which lasted between nine and
ten years , with 'such patience , fortitude and resignation , as became an enlightened man , and a sincere Christian . He was in the stricter sense a Unitarian , and for some time a worthy member of the Unitarian Church at Caermarthen . Of
his conversion to that faith he gave the present writer the following account , which is now extracted from his funeral sermon : € C Before my illness , though I was too thoughtless , yet the principles of a good religious education never forsook me . Thinking highly of religion , 1 would have given the world to be in the state
of certain professors whom I knew . But I always expected a sudden change , or effectual , supernatural calling , according to the popular idea of conversion . After my illness came on , a sense of the necessity of religion became more pressing . I did not expect , to live a month . I could
not promise myself a day ., I had seemingly nothing to dp , but prepare to die . I , as regularly as | could , attended religious worship ; butj ¦ #£ doctrine was ; , that ^ tjie . firet step in , religion was the supernatural &n <| ,. effectual conversion , whicfc ha $ j ^ l ^ ' ^ cltj ^^ j ^ Qgr- ^
connot e # e ^ $ . y $ m ^ bejfi ^ e going i $ » i m $ 0 tmm » ¦ $#$ J rMght expemeii ^ thiQipp (^|; ip ^ ojf r jte ^ Dpt , . ^ hUe theyfc ^ I continued praying , and most attentively watching every emotion in ex-
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pectation of such a call or conversion . I stayed behind , during the jcommunion service to wait an 4 pt&f fpirit :, but all to no purpose ! I" 1 ^ dttv iBi § # in the most ine ^ ressiblp agony , * What can a poor creature like « fa § - iI j ^^ fiNe " atened with death at every moment , atad with eternal death if I do n 1 of ^^ erience a
change , and sieeli a change as ^ I have not felt and have * iio ^ ihe . power ^ firpduce ? " Ail this my friend said with great solemnity and emphasis , and then , added , " 0 preach against that cruel doctrine of partial and irresistible calling , which has been the means of deferring the reformation of thousands to tneir final ruin !"
After he became thus perplexed and dejected , and almost thought all religion a farce , he happily met with some Unitarian books ; and among others , some sermons of Price and Priestley ' s , and the tatter ' s " Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion . " The force of truth soon
overpowered his prejudices . He read , he compared , he approved . " All , * ' he said , " appeared to me now in a new light : all seemed marked with the simplicity and consistency of divine truth . " He daily improved his acquaintance with
Unitarians , expressed a thankful satisfaction with their faith , and lived exemplarily and died peacefully in their communion . His tranquil and pious state of mind may be seen from the dying benediction with which he closed some directions to his affectionate relatives . ** I have now
only to pray that God may bless every individual of jny family that 1 leave behind me ; and that he may be graciously pleased to lead them to , and keep them in , the paths of virtue and religion , the only certain and lasting means of happiness here and hereafter . So that when
all the families of the earth shall be gathered together in the presence of the great Father of mankind ; we all may , through his mercy ' ^ as humble and faithful followers ofjfesus £ fcrist , be admitted to that glorious kingdom which will
we have in promise ; * when God set up his tabernacle with men , and will dwell with them ; : -Wjtfai Jhe < will wipe away all tears from their- eyes : Yand there shall be no mpre death ,: neither sorrow nor crying , neither shall there be any more p&in ? i > " AmenI Aiuen 1 " .. " .., , ' ¦' ¦ JCpij * EVANS .
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1819 . Nov . 28 , Rev . Jabez Brown , of Stowmarket , Suflblk , in his 84 th year . He was 28 years pastor of the Baptist Church , Yarmouth "<; and 22 yekrs p ^ ftor of a Church of the same denomination at Stowmarket . ¦ lu . l-i ... v ..
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1820 . March 14 , at his house at Kmghtsbridgey in his 83 rd year , Michael Underwood , M . p ., senior physician to the British Lyingfrin-Hospital ,, and who had the honoui * of bringing into the world
the late lamented Princess Charlotte , and of being the intimate friend of the late Rev . Mr . Toplady , whom he attended in his last moments , and whose ** Dying Avowal , " he was instrumental in publishing .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1820, page 312, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2488/page/56/
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