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rally thought , . fchere is little to apprehend . " I do not fear to die , ' he saad , and « there is no pain in dying . " The latter expression he repeated more than once , and it made a deep impression on the mind of the writer of tins memoir
who was present , and who was observing . with great attention and interest all that passed . It was a voluntary and striking testimony to the troth of sm . opinion which has been forced on the attention of -the writer , by what he has himself witnessed at the bed of death , namely ., that in the act of dying there is no suffering . Violent pain does sometimes precede
death s but , compared with the number of cases in which it is otherwise , even this must be considered as very infrequent , and when a fatal disease is also a ( painful one , there is a remission of the < pain before the fatal event . When the -wonderful functions of life ceese , the body is in a state either of ease or of in-< seireibility . If there be any exceptions to this rule , they must be peculiarly
rare . The death of this exemplary and youthful Christian affords another proof of the ignorance and prejudice of those who « uppose it is impossible to die happily out -of their own faith . The calmness and self-possession of the mind in that awful ¦ season , depend on many circumstances , and nothing perhaps can be a less certain criterion of the moral excellence
of a character , than the feeling with which the last hour is met . And yet it is delightful to see the troubled day of life close in brightness and in peace ; the imagination dwells fondly on such a termination ; the heart is soothed by it : this beam of brightness is the lovelier and the sweeter because it is the last that
smiles . on humanity . In contemplating the death of this our lamented friend , we have then all the consolation it is possible to possess . A bright ray of hope rests on his early tomb : it gives us the cheering assurance that he does but sleep there , and that though we too must descend to the same dark bed and sink into the
same deep sleep , yet tliat a , period will arrive when we shall awake ; when we shall start into life and consciousness , and recognise each other and rejoice together through everlasting ages . * ' For the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorimptible , and we shall
be changed : for this corruptible shall put on iucorruptiou , and ttm ; mortal shall put on immortality . Q death , where is thy sting ? * D . grave , where is thy victory $ Thanks be to God » wJh > jgiveth us the victory -through our liOrd Jesus Christ . " T \ 8 . 8 .
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GO Obituary +- ~ Mr . Samuel Meid .
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-1821 , Nov . 2 , at Penmain , M&xmmt h-* M r& , the residence of liis friend Ric&ard Perkins , Esq ., Mr , Samuel Kbie > , of LiveN $ ool , in the 46 th year of his age . This excellent man was a native of Bristol , aad received his education under the late Dr
Estlia , by whom his talents were early distinguished and carefcHy ^ cultivated . He was desigwed &w the ministry , and wtien be had finished hi * preparatory studies , removed to Hackney College . Unfortunately , doubts ^ arose in Ills veksA respecting the truth of Christianity , which
made it impossible for him , mtluenced as he ever was by the strictest integrity , and incapable of dissimulation , to engage in the profession to which he was destined . It was not the contagion of a fashionable scepticism , or the youthful vanity of calMng in question established opinions , by which his mind was affected ; his doubts were
-conscientious and deeply painful to himself ; subsequent inquiry convinced him that they were unreasonable , and he became again a firm believer in the truths of the gospel , which had never ceased to ^ e the rule of his practice . This change , however , was not immediate ; he felt
himself bound to relinquish the ministerial profession , and by doing so , involved himself in a variety of uncongenial employments , in which for several years his talents and virtues produced comparatively little benefit either to himself or others . In tfee pursuit of commercial
objects he visited , successively , America and the Levant , and on his return from t ? he Mediterranean in 1803 , he renounced these occupations and superintended Dr . 3 £ stlin * 8 school for about two years . The removal -of Dr . Carpenter from Liverpool t / O - Eoceter , on the death of Mr . Kenrick , made an opening for some one to
succeed hhn at Liverpool , as a private instructor , and Mr . Reid came thither to reside in 1806 , and continued there till a few months before his decease , when the complaint winch ultimately proved fatal , compelled him to suspend his labours and to seek a milder climate . It
was with difficulty that he could reconcile himself to that intermission of active usefulness which bis health demanded , and bis disregard © f all personal considerations where he saw fcfe opportunity of domg good , had long been undermining hia constitution * mtd erfiaustifig the strength wftieH might olfcerwise have struggled stteeedtift&ty' wk £ t disease .
His literary attatinnientB were various and extensive ; bfe intellectual P **®? strong and wer fertite * # ZdeaB , w * be powred out in orkversat 5 oTi w ^> » rapidity Which It ^ wa 8 ^^« fiiBttoes «© € «» fie follow . Bm his iftte ^ cdtuaL ^ ual 1 " ! however texeeHeirt , mi ¥ ^ thc tewrt 'fJJ * of * he wmerateatiees , wlik& UM 0 * ' **
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1822, page 60, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2508/page/60/
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