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    light of i ^^ ndagefe unwartajbLtabW added to a twkif simple , ' intelligible and heavenly . systeift . IJ ^ r ; attention to the duti es of pubtfc worship atncj religious i ^ proveineat , W ££ regutitir and almost uncjeviatiiig \ She iy ^ as ' to be seen in her place whenever the service of the sanctuary invited her

    presence , and indisposition or inclement weather did not prevent—not deeming it an act of supererogation , as but too many now do , to repair to the seat of devotion twice on the Lord ' s-Day . Nor did she on the first Sunday of the month , when the celebration of the Lord ' s Supper succeeded the usual

    service , desert her "nost . as is too fre - service , desert her post , as is too frequently done , but staid , and with reverential , cheerful gratitude joined in the observance of it with her consistent fellow-ehristians . Her behaviour in the chapel was serious , devout and attentive . She aimed not so much to

    be thought pious as to be so . She was ; more solicitous to deserve the reputation of excellence than to acquire it .- For years she-attended with more xrr less constancy the school that was

    kept twice a week in the vestry to teacth giris the arts of sewing and Knitting ^ and the se , together with anumbfcF of boys , reading , writing and arithmetic . To this school , as well as to

    theSunday-school and other charitably institutions , she was a generous , * WiShotit' foeing an ostentatious contributor . The whole tenor of her life demonstrated that the governing , ' presidium object of her wishes was to be and to do all that she believed to be consistent with thfe true genuine Christian character "

    Mrs . Swanwick , of Cheater , for many years the surviving parent of a numerous ajad very worthy family , was distinguished by a peculiar rcombinatioiv of a most engaging suavity of manners * with a highly cultivated understanding $ nd a truly benevolent hearth None cotrid approach her

    without being enarmed with ^ e polite and graceful Feceptioja- £ k < p ja ^ ive them . If time admitted , she entered / into conversation in the most un # ff < $ Dted ahd affable mapner ; and wi ^ p * ntever at a loss to mak « ^ Ueh ' kind and a £ j > ro | niate inquiries , as evinced at or ^ e ^ atf extensive ktttf * tfjfcd £ e * of society , arid tin Ineiyantei ^ e ^ t she took in thfe ftap- piness of others . Greait pa # t <* f lti € r

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    life w ^ is . spent in the most u&eftyl ^ nd honoiiraJble fett ^ lo ytiieiit * of ^ feafierSatteMing tfti edu ^ tiop of youirg ladies , and fittii | g them to ap ^ e ^ r with advaji-Ug-ein the ^ or ^ and to fill , with credit to themselves and advantage ^ o others , the various situations of life

    to which they might be called . Many ladies who survive their honoured and beloved governess , can bear testimony to the anxious as well as attractive and judicious mode in which she instructed

    them in such branches of knowledge , whether substantial or ornamental , as were requisite to qualify them to shine in whatever department they might be destined to act . On religious subjects she was accustomed to think without

    allowing herself to be under the influence of such restraints and obstacles as custom , fear or interest in too rpany cases impose , with a single eye to the attainment of the truth as it is in Christ Jesus our Lord ! She acted upon the principle , in this instance ,

    of calling no one but him her Master , and none Father but God . Firm was her convictitfn that she was amenable to no human tribunal for the sentiments she entertained of the gospel , and she exerted her best powers ,

    unembarrassed and unbiassed ; to discover its real nature and design . She was not , however , more distingui s hed for her upright and' impartial investigation of the truth of religious doctrkiesy than for the candour and charity whi < * J * she manifested to those who diffetetf

    from her in sentiment . Though she might be denominated a Sectarian , * as " every thinking person must be in the proper but innocent sense of the word , by adopting opinions entertained by one or other class of Christians- yet she possessed not the slightest tinctrjre of what has been styled , in a bad sense , a sectarian spirit . She believed in the

    personal as well as -essential unity of the Creator , "but she cherished no other feeling towards thCSe who maintained a plurality of divine persons , than wh&t resolved itself into a conviction of their b&ing in error . Skt i worshiped only Him who is ond , jUtd ' whose ham £ is One , but inteff ^ fl ntit

    with ithose , eVeh in the way < of > complaint , Who addicted thettiaetves to a trtun ^ adoration . She dti ^ ntrihtea the firmest cohvictidn of the t > ivine placability , untnflueneed by any thing but

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    Biographical 7 > ibUte £% lfa Swanwick . * # gjr

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1822, page 727, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2519/page/7/