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reader may have already concluded , was with Mr . H . a subject of serious thought and inquiry . To what conclusions his inquiries had led him with respect to certain topics of theological controversy , it might not be easy to ascertain , as his constitutional modesty would have prevented him from obtruding his opinions upon others , even had not the malady of
deafness obliged him to hold converse chiefly with himself . But whatever was his creed , he possessed , in an eminent degree , the spirit of Christian candour , aud loved good Christiaus of every denomination . A few sentences had been prepared descriptive of his character ; but nothing can be more just than the
following sketch of it , which is copied from the Northampton Mercury , and which is attributed to a gentleman who , through a long series of years , had the best opportunity of knowing his real worth . " Distinguished alike for his unaffected
piety and sterling integrity , for his generosity to his relations , for his warm and steady attachment to his friends , and for his diffusive benevolence and hospitality , his removal will be long and deeply lamented by all connected with him by the ties of blood or affection . " One mode
in which his benevolence expressed itself ought perhaps to be specified , aud that was , accommodating persons in inferior circumstances with such sums of money as their immediate necessities might require , of which he frequently took no account , leaving the parties to repay him as they could , or not at all . Thus , in
particular , during the late hard times , he enabled little farmers in his neighbourhood to retain their farms , by assisting them to pay their rents . He was , in truth , what the clergyman who officiated at his interment pronounced him to be ,
when in the conclusion of an extemporaneous address , having called the deceased his friend , he added , " I call him my friend , for he was every man ' s friend . " E . C .
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482 Obituary . —Mrs . Martha Donoug-hue . —Mr . William Sharp .
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July 30 , Mi \ William Sharv , eminent engraver , aged about 75 . * M
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July 24 , at Brightkelmstone , in the 48 th year of her age , Martha , wife of the Rev . Jeremiah Ponoughue , after a short but severe illness , sustained with exemplary fortitude and Christian resignation . Her mind was unclouded to the last
moment . Her trust in God was steady , sober and serene , full of humility and full of hope . The mild but firm virtues of her life shed their strongest light at the last hour . The solemn event was improved on the morning of the following Sunday , in a sermon delivered hy Dr . Morell , at the New-Road Chapel , from
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Heb . ix . 27 : " It is appointed unto wen once to die , and after this the judgment . " (( Hear this , " he said , ** you , my friends , who now mourn the loss of what the earth held most dear to you—of a wife who knew and who well fulfilled all the duties of that tender relation ; of a inother who was all that a mother , and none but a mother , can be to > a young and numerous offspring . You have lately beheld in her the efficacy of the Christian faith to shed peace into the mind in the last conflict of nature . You have
witnessed the tranquil delight with which she received the assurance of approaching dissolution as a message of release from an angel of peace . You have listened to the counsels of piety and wisdom that fell from her dying lips before she withdrew her thoughts from earth to take her last refuge in Him who was the
strength of her heart , and is now her portion for ever . You saw her pursue with the steady eye of faith , through the darkness that gathered round her , the bright track of him , the first-begotten from the dead , who died and rose from the dead that he might open the gate of life to all his followers . You saw her
fall asleep in Jesus , when the last struggle was past , and the weary was at rest . The decree which has removed our departed friend , shall remove us all , ere long , from the society of earth . You lament a common fate—the end of all
living . She whom you lament has not been singled out from the myriads that inhabit the globe , to descend into the silence and darkness of the grave . We ail perform the same journey , and shall reach the same boundary . It is appointed to all men once to die . Your grief ,
too , is a common grief : not to sympathize in it would be to forget that the lives which God has given to us and ours , he also will take away ; that the strongest ties are fragile ; that none can be woven by nature or affection which
are of immortal texture . The sympathy we give to you , we shall also require ; the consolations we pray God to impart to you , we shall have cause to implore for ourselves . It is the lot of man . The living , the living they shall die . Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ , that he has given to us in his resurrection the assured hope that the dead shall also live . Death shall not always have dominion over them . Thanks be to God , who has given us this victory through our Lord Jesus Christ ! "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1824, page 482, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2527/page/34/
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