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stances ; but all these trials he bore with true Christian fortitude and equanimity . Within a few months previous to his death , his strength rapidly declined , and he appeared sensible that the termination of his mortal course could not be far distant ; but he contemplated it without
dismay , and often longed for its arrival . Three days before his death , he was attacked by what his medical attendant pronounced to be a paralytic seizure , and was immediately carried to his bed , but retained his senses to the Jast moment , evincing that calm serenity and
composure of mind , which the review of a wellspent life , a firm reliance on the free and infinite mercy and compassion of his heavenly Father , and the glorious prospects and promises of the gospel , afford to all who have endeavoured faithfully to perform their Christian duties .
The death-bed of one whose general life and conduct has been conformable to his Christian profession , is highly instructive and interesting , and sweetly recommends a course of piety and virtue . The
last hours of this worthy man furnished another instance of the efficacy of Unitarian principles ( when they are properly understood , and suffered to influence the heart aud life ) to support the mind in that awful season when we are about to
exchange time for eternity , and to bid farewell to all sublunary good . " Let me die the death of tbe righteous , and let my latter end be like his . " M . L . YE ATE S . Sidmouth , April 8 , 1822 .
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A Tribute to the Memory of the Rev . Christopher ff ^ y trill . ( See ]) . 188 . ) March 8 , at his seat , Burton Hall , near Wensley Dale , in the North Riding of the County of York , the Rev . Christoph er Wyvill , in the 83 rd year of his
age . Having attained to this advanced period , his removal from the world is matter of sorrow rather than surprise to his friends ; who , in the last stage of his useful and benevolent life , when gradually decaying- as an aged tree in the forest , derived from his example a most important and instructive lessen of
Christian piety , patience and resignation . The writer of this paper knew him well , and therefore feels himself not incompetent to bear ample and unequivocal testimony to the distinguished virtue and sterling
worth of this friend of his country and of mankind . Hut , in proportion to the knowledge and experience of the various excellencies of his admirable character , which , in a long and intimate friendship with Mr . WyviJl , he had the happiness of
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acquiring—so much the more deeply doeg he now deplore the loss of this venerabl e man ; deplore , did 1 say ? rather let me congratulate the exalted spirit of my departed friend , now taken from the evil to come , on having escaped from the accumulating calamities impending over his distracted country , and threatening to
involve its dearest interests in misery and distress . The independence of his principles , the calm dignity , the manly simplicity and consistency of his conduct , the intrep idity and firmness of his mind , together with
the probity and purity of his heart , I trust I have not contemplated entirely in vain . Nor will his bright example be lost to the world . It will continue to shine with unfading lustre on all around ; it will long live in the remembrance of those who knew him ; it will leave a
lasting impression on the minds of his muchrespected and amiable family , of his numerous friends , and of the wise and virtuous in the busy circle of the world . This able and generous advocate of the
rights of humanity , eminently distinguished as he was by his love of constitutional liberty , civil and religious , and by his unwearied endeavours to promote the freedom and happiness of the human race , is justly entitled to the designation of a genuine philanthropist , an enlightened and disinterested patriot , a truly upright and honourable man .
In early life , Mr . Wyvill was conspicuous for his ard-ent zeal in the cause of Political and Parliamentary Reform . As an active member of the Yorkshire Association , instituted about the year 1780 , for promoting this great object , he was unanimously chosen secretary to that patriotic and public-spirited body . At this period he acted with a noble band
of patriots , illustrious in rank , talents and virtue , whose memory will be honoured and revered till " the sun of Kngland ' s glory shall set . " liut he was more particularly united by the tics or personal as well as political confidence and esteem , as a friend and
fellow-labourer , with the virtuous Sir ( tvorgc Saville ; whose name , in the annals of Britain , will ever stand high on flic scale of inflexible political integrity . Mr . Wyvill was , to the last , a consistent and strenuous supporter of the great pi inciple of Reform ; although he dififcrt-cJ from the Reformists of the present day , «' t () the extent and modifications of that pri nciple . It was the good -fortune of fl >) S
revered and excellent father , to I ' w see his own principles revived , like the phoenix from its ashes , in the person ol Iiis son , who was chosen one of the representatives for the city of York , : i
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246 Obituary . —Rev . Christopher Wyvill .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/54/
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