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33 mourning coaches , and 13 private carriages . After , the corpse was laid in the grave , the . Rev . Mr . Barrett addressed the company in terms at once appropriate and affecting . It is not by circumstances of funeral pomp , by mere lamentations , and by the trappings of woe , that the deep
impression of Dr . Lindsay ' s worth , or the profound regret for his death can be adequately testified . No man ever exhibited more strikingly the kindly feeliugs aud generous dispositions which adorn and bless the best of our species : no man ever received a larger return of heart-felt esteem and affectionate confidence .
Singularly applicable to him are the words of an affectionate biographer . — " Nihil metus in vultu ; gratia oris supererat : bonum virum facile crederes ^ magnum libenter . " In his comely countenance , the gentleness of his temper and the kindness of his heart were conspicuous : you at once recognised in him a good man : you were prepared to find him a great man ,
The talents of Dr . Lindsay were of the most respectable order : Jiis acquirements were extensive , solid , and progressive to the last hour of his life . As a minister of the gospel , he was distinguishd for liberality , candour and piety . The glowing energy of his heart dissipated from his presence the cold formality of the professor , and opened a free correspondence of affection and confidence between him
and his hearers . During the period of thirty-five years , he performed the duties of a Dissenting minister to the respectable congregation of Monkwell Street , in the oldest Dissenting meeting-house in
London ; and in that period he rose to be one of the greatest ornaments of the body to which he belonged . Unrestrained by prejudice , unbiassed by ambition , he cultivated truth in every department of knowledge , he extended his benevolence to
every class of his fellow-beings . In religion and politics his guides were truth and reason ; his objects , the alleviation of unavoidable evil and the pfomotion of attainable good . For the universal diffusion of education and knowledge his
zeal almost approached to enthusiasm , eagerly anticipating the general improvement inseparable from general knowledge . Lamentably to his family and friends , but appropriately to his character , died this lover of truth and human kind . His last
words advocated the education of the poor ; the last visions of his fancy portrayed the happier destinies of men , which every good man delights to indulge . But , eminent as Dr . Lindsay stood in nis profession , his character derived its brightes t lustre from his private virtues and domestic habits . It is not the cold
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artifices of language th&t can express—it is only the warm and kind heart that can reel the . luxury of affection and endearment , such as Dr . Lindsay bestowed and enjoyed in the bosom of his family . Remote from the bursts of passion , the corrodings of envy , the fret of peevishness , and the thousand evils of an ill-regulated temper , his presence diffused the sunshine of joy and love . In the circle of his familiar
friends , the unrestrained ardour of his heart and , the exuberant gaity of his humour gave full play to every social sentiment , and spread around him a real delight seldom surpassed in the intercourse of the most congenial minds . Upon the whole , his life was happy and useful , and certainly no man ever left behind him a higher esteem or a deeper
regret . Dr . Lindsay was a native of Forfarshire , in Scotland , and succeeded the celebrated Dr . Fordyce as minister of Monkwell Street meeting . His academy at Grove-hall always sustained a character of the first respectability . His age was 66 .
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Obituary . —Dr . Lindsay . 183
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No . II . We have a pleasure in stating that Dr ~ Lindsay , of whose death and character an interesting account will be found in another part of the paper , was an advocate for Mr . Brougham's Bill . It was the object of that Reverend gentleman ' s
speech , at the conclusion of which he expired , to persuade his brethren . to acquiesce in any plan which might tend to diffuse the blessings of education more widely ; minute differences in point of faith , all being Christians , were objects of infinitely less importance . The awful
situation of the speaker , who is now no > more , will , we trust , add weight to his advice . " The soul ' s dark cottage , batter'd and decay'd , Lets in new light through chinks that time has made .
Stronger by weakness , wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home ; Leaving the old , both worlds at once they view , That stand upon the threshold of the new / 1
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No . 111 . To the Editor of the Times . Sir , The friends of the late Rev . Dr . Lindsay cannot but feel themselves under great obligations to you for your high but wellmerited eulogium upon his character , inserted in your paper of this day . You
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1821, page 183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2498/page/55/
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