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tired betimes to rest—in unbroken slumbers to prepare for the glad stir of the morning * in whicfe , if we have been wise , we shall all awake to joy never more to be interrupted /'
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March 28 , in the 64 th year of his age , the Rev . Lowthian Pollock , Minister of the Old Dissenting Chapel , Macclesfield . A month or two ago the writer of this article had the mournful task of transmitting , for insertion in the Monthly Repository , ( p . 55 , ) a brief memoir of the amiable daughter of Mr . Pollock , who died
after a very short illness . It is to be feared this melancholy event , connected with his subsequent anxiety for the recovery of his only surviving daughter , whose life was long balancing between hope and fear , proved too much for a constitution already beginning to decline , and hastened his death .
Mr . Pollock was a native of Cumberland . His father , Mr . William Pollock , who was a respectable member of the congregation of Dissenters at Penrudduck , in that county , designed him fo * the Christian ministry from his childhood . After going through a course of preparatory education at several
successive schools , particularly at the Freeschool at Blencowe , where he continued upwards of five years , under the tuition of the Rev . W . Cowper , he was placed under the care of his uncle , the Rev . S . Lowthian , of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , with whom he pursued his theological studies four years .
Soon after he had completed hi . s academical education , he was invited , by the congregation at the Old Dissenting Chapel , Macclesfield , to become their stated minister ; in which situation he continued till his death , a period of fortyone years , and during the whole of that time the greatest harmony uniformly prevailed between himself and aJU the members of his congregation ^
Mr . Pollock possessed considerable attainments in literature . His acquaintance with the branches of knowledge more immediately connected with the ministerial office was extensive . He had read much , and his vigorous understanding and accurate judgment , joined to a retentive memory , enabled him to profit by all he read . His preparations for -the public
services of religion were conducted with great care , awd his discourses were distinguished tor being correct and judicious . Though he was far from being reserved in his manners , yet , as he led a retired life , spending his time chiefly in the bosom of his affectionate family , in the society of bis more intimate acquaintances , and \ ix attending to the duties of the niuiistry in
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own congregation , his talents were not so widely known as a more general intercourse with the world , and especially with his brethren in the ministry , would have rendered them . ' . Those however who knew him well , duly appreciated his merits .
But his highest praise was , that he was a true Christian . The moral precepts he delivered to his hearers he exemplitied in his own conduct . Strict integrity , Christian humility , candour and universal benevolence appeared ki all his behaviour . No one could possess a heart more disposed to friendship , more alive to every kind feeling , more prompt to cherish and
display those social tempers on which the peace and harmony of . society depend ; and the consequence was , that he enjoyed not only the uninterrupted affection of his hearers , but the respect and good will of persons of other religious denominations , who , forgetting difference Qf opinion , rendered a sincere homage to his virtues and his worth .
His manly and Christian resignatipn in his late domestic afflictions was exemplary . The consolations of religion , which he had often held out to others , he powerfully felt and thankfully acknowledged ; and though his paternal feelings were most powerfully alive , and his soul , like that of the Saviour , was sometimes
sorrowful even unto death , yet , like him also was he enabled to say , " Not my will * but thine , O God , be done . " The tender sympathy which all his friends and acquaintances felt for him , on the loss o his deservedly beloved daughter , is now ,
alas . ! followed by a sincere regret for his own death . How well to him may be applied these words of Scripture : " The memory of the just is blessed" ! He has left behind him a son and a daughter to lament the loss of one of the best and kindest of parents . J . B .
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Obituary . —Ree . Lowthian Pollock . —Rev . Heorge Ford . 251
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April 6 , in the 58 th year of his age , after an apoplectic seizure , the Rev . George Ford , upwards of 25 years pastor of the Independent Congregation at Stepney .
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— 14 , at his house in Highbury Grove , Joseph Traveks , Esq ., of St . Swithin ' * Lane , in the 69 th year of his age .
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Lately , at Thomey , in the Isle of Ely , the Rev . J . Gi a oilstone , M . A ., aged 76 , incumbent curate of the Donative of Thorney Abbey , and formerly of Catherine Hall , Cambridge . He had been for more than 50 years the resident aq 4 oiliciatiiJg minister of his parish , and for
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 251, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/59/
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