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please thee to raise us again in the morning , may refreshing sleep have recruited our bodies , and may our minds with fresh vigour rise to the duties and enjoyments of a new day , a new Sabbath ! Prepare us , O God ! for the approach of that solemn morning , when all that are
in their graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God , when the last slumbers of mortality shall close , the last night of probation terminate , and the endless day of immortality begin I Grant , heavenly Father , that , through thy abounding grace in the gospel , we may then enter into the joy of our Lord f "
He had a pleasing talent for Sacred Poetry . Some of his Hymns are far above mediocrity . The following specimen may be deemed among his happiest effusions . I have long used it at the Lord ' s Supper on the commencement of the year : — * ' Stand still , refulgent orb of day ! " " A Jewish hero cries ; So shall at last an angel say , And tear it from the skies !
A name intenser than the sun Shall melt his golden urn ; Time ' s empty glass no more shall run , Nor human years return 1 Then , with immortal splendour bright , That glorious orb shall rise , Which through eternity shall light The new-created skies !
Thou sun of nature , roll along , And bear our years away ; The sooner shall we join the song Of everlasting day ! In matters of religion , his
characteristics were , —good sense , great modesty and a . truly Christian liberality . He had not a spark of bigotry in his composition . He loved good men of all denominations , and rejoiced in the anticipation of meeting them in heaven I
As to his private character , our deceased Brother was exemplary in all the relative duties of civil and social life . We was a kind husband , an affectionate father and a faithful friend . His witttHri and children bless his memory ! Never did a person relish more truly the pleasures of * domestic life—never was an individual more
happy in the bosom of his family . A proof of the truth of this statement is ailorded by the recital of a few lines sent me from his own pen many years ago , lor insertion in a periodical miscellany .
Ask me to choose my happiest lot , I chose exactly what [ got ! Ask mo what 1 wish for more—A little to relieve the poor : A Jife well spent , since life is given , And long 01 short—as pleases Heaven !
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This is the true spirit of Christian contentment . He has left behind him for publication a Fourth Volume of Sermons and it is his widow ' s intention to add a small volume , with a portrait , of Poems and Letters , which , from their intrinsic merit cannot fail of meeting with due
encouragement . For some time past , such were hig corporeal infirmities , that his pen was his constant and almost only amusement . His daughter , in one of her excellent letters to the writer of this article , describing the latter days of her deceased parent
says , that even when confined to his bed , he would dictate small poetical effusions , indicative of the truly devout and pious state of his mind ! To the very last , few individuals possessed more of the spirit , and none shared more largely in the consolations of Christianity . The
fruits of his pen were of no ordinary cast —aad whilst they have been admired by his contemporaries , will be duly estimated by posterity . J . EVANS . Islington . May 14 , 1822 .
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Benjamin Hawes , Esq . ( The brief notice of this gentleman ' s death , p . 188 , is incorrect : we now insert a more authentic account , the publication of which has been delayed by accident . ) 1822 . Jan . 10 . Suddenly , aged 7 <> , being struck with a fit while on his usual walk , three miles distant from Worthing ,
Benjamin Hawes , Esq . Mr . Hawes whs a native of Islington . He was the youngest of three brothers , of whom Mr . James Hawes , the eldest , died in 1789 , the other , —the philanthropic and muchlamented Dr . William Hawes , —died in
1808 , and was the founder of that admirable charity , the Royal Humane Society . Mr . Hawes was for many years a respectable indigo merchant in Thames Street ; and having , by great skill in business , with unremitted industry and unsullied integrity , acquired an ample fortune , he relinquished trade , and passed his latter years at Worthing , where his loss will be felt in an extraordinary
degree , even by many who did not know him to he their benefactor- The threat distinctive feature of his mind vvaN an ardent and conscientious desire to relieve the distresses of his fellow-creatures , without taking to himself the merit of
his good works . Having retired from the busy scene of life , he lived very abstemiously , and his constant study wai * not only to communicate good to al around him , but , if possible , to conccdl the hand which thus diffused blowing * .
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312 Obituary . —Benjamin Hawes > Esq .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1822, page 312, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2512/page/56/
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