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medicine my £ oor brother took found no passage , and though he gradually became Relieved from pain ; yet life strength i » apidly left him * Yestei ^ ay
morning * after the last efforts ?| ad been made to save him , he" seemed to collect his thoughts about an hour before his death , and called me by name to his bed-side . He then
expressed his conviction that he was dying "; thanked me and his other brothers by name for those attentions which our dut jr had required of us , and expressed himself most thankfully to Dr . Smith . He then dwelt on the
love he bore his parents and friends , many of whom he mentioned by name . True to those principles which you have heard him dilate upon so enthusiastically , he spoke of the goodness which directed all here , and expressed
himself as humbly thankful to God for the great share of happiness he had experienced during life . He said he only regretted he had been able to do so little for religion and for Christianity : he rejoiced that the last act
of his life was doing good ( alluding to the two charity sermons which he had nearly completed , and was to have delivered at Maidstone next Sunday ) . He then stated that , though he had enjoyed sq much happiness during life , he was still content to die , and felt no
pain in dying , and made an allusion to a future state of happiness , where all friends will be re-united ¦ . His death was truly consistent with his life , and of that you are well able to form an estimate . Yesterday afternoon he was opened at the particular
request of Dr . Smith , and the cause of the complaint was ascertained to be a most singular one—a scarlet dean was discovered to have lodged itself in a cavky of the intestines , in one of those few parts of the human body of which no use has hitherto been
discovered . It is supposed that he must have inadvertently swallowed the bean the day before his illness commenced . On such trifles do our lives depend ! Such apparently insignificant means
are made use of by that All-wise Being * who governs life and death , and whose beneficent providemce ia , we trust , acting still cottsistently ^; however mysr teriously , in t « i « |» U ^ ¦)
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looked for , it is easier to ima ^ e than to describe the d ^ ess and sorrow df his family and friirids ; by all of whom he was tjenderly iMovefl for tis virtpn-. and engaging manners . His ' wortiijf parents , however , though they h& \ ne all the tender feelings of humanity ,
have behaved like Christians . They sorrow not as those who have no hope * They , indeed , suffer and lament , but they are resigned to the will of God . May they partake largely of the consolations of . the gospel ! What has tended greatly to alleviate their sorrow
under so great a bereavement , is the kindness of their numerous friends , whose soothing aiid sympathising attentions they have most sensibly experienced , and to whom it may be gratifying to know , that their affectionate regards so seasonably evinced have
been useful in the highest degree . " We cannot but consider the death of this young minister as a loss , not only to his family and to society at large , but also , in a public point of view , to the General Baptists , amongst whom he laboured , and intended to
labour , in the ministry of the gospel ; —who hailed his rising merits , and who trusted : that his abilities and exertions would revive and extend their drooping cause . But the great Arbiter of life and death had otherwise
ordained . To his mandate we bow , and may his will be done on earth as it is in heaven ! € < € He fill'd hi $ space with worthy deeds , And not # ith lingering years /"
Mr . Eaton introduced a quotation from one of the unfinished sermons referred to in the foregoing lettga ^ being the last sentences on which th ^ lamented deceased enfij * loyed his gen —a quotation which it is unnecessary here to repeat , as . Dr . South wood
Smith , who is in every respect well qualified for the task , has undertake ^ , to draw up a short memoir of the character of his young and belovgci friend , with extracts from , tefc
year which comprehended p « mencement ana tile termination 4 qHapfc $ minist » ' ' ' I ; ' " " htfflR" ^ W W ^ P ** ' . -er ¦ v , ' * V
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1821, page 737, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2507/page/41/
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