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1824 . May 9 , at Trowbridge , . in the 77 th year of her age , Mrs . Sarah Waldron , daughter of the late Rev . W . Waldron , fifty years Pastor of the General Baptist Church in Trowbridge , who fU nished his valuable life and labours in
that town , m the year 1794 . She had from early life been an exemplary member of the above-mentioned church ; her steady piety , Christian simplicity and zeal , the deep interest she took in every thing which concerned the welfare of the congregation , her readiness to do good to
others to the utmost of her means , and the uniform consistency of her conduct , endeared her to the Christian society with which she had been so many years united . To the last , her hope firmly rested upon the fatherly character of God , and his free mercy and grace manifested in Jesus Christ . After for a
considerable time gradually sinking under the weakness and infirmities of age , cherishing the animating prospect of a future , happy immortality , without any violent struggle she fell asleep in Jesus . On the 16 th , she was interred in the family vault in the General Baptist
Meeting-house , when a suitable address was delivered ; and on the following day , Sunday , May 17 , her funeral sermon was preached from 1 Thess . iv . 14 , to a respectable audience . - Persons belonging to other congregations shewed their respect to her memory by attending on the occasion . R . W .
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Objections advanced aguimt Unitarians . ' 12 mo- pp , 56 * - Brisfel , printed arid sold % j W . Brbwi ^ sold also ; by & jlUriter , London . od .
THIS biographical " Account ^ was first printed in The Christian Reformer ^ for Au ^ iist 1 822 . It is now published separately ivitli additions , and we think that Mri Maurice
( lately punisterof the U ^ ifarian caife gregation at Erenchay , fiejar firijsfojf } has consulted tKe girid pf his fellowcreatures in the publication . i . . .... . -. •* -,
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Obituary *—* Mr $ . Sarah Waldron . —llev . Tkvmas Otoen ^ 62 &
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Art . VI . —Ah Account of the Life and Religious Opinions of John Bawniqfjfyewhati * By Michael Maurice . Also . Answers to some
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so kind to us ! O God , be merciful to out kind and generous henefactor !* -rfe Hope , pea (? e and comfort returned to ffffT fainting heartl * No ^ v , O Qcid V he exdaimed , in a transport of holy joy , as he dosed His eyes in death , ' Thou dost let
thy selrant depart in peace ! The soul that is accompanied to eternity by the prayers of three hundred children may advance with humble hope into the presencfe of their Fatheir and their God !' s > — - Pp . 35 / 36 . \ . ¦
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May 31 , at Quor / idon , in Leicestershire , jn the 59 th ye ^ r of his age , the llev . Thomas Owen * Mr . Owen was born at Gain FawrMii the cotfnty of Caermarthen , Jannaif 1 , 1766 . His parents had « ve childltn , two 3 ons aud thr « e da \ igU-
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ters , of which he was the eldest , and of course heir to the patiimonial estate : fortunately for him ii was an eatadled one , or he would have been deprived of it on account of some differences in the family . At the age of sixteen he entered the Academy in Caermartjien , under the care of Mr , Gentleman ^ It was aft
erwards removed ta Swatisea , where he finished his education uader Mr . Howell . He settled at Findern as piinister in 1785 . After preaching here about six years , he removed to Loughborough , Feb . 19 , 1791 , aad undertook the care of the Unitarian congregations at that place and Mount Sorrel . His departure
from Findern was m uch regretted . Thus far in life he had been an Arian f > He was deeply learned in polemical divinity > and considered the acquisition of truth one of the great ends of human enistence . During his ministry in these congregations his opinions underwent a
gradual change , and at the time the writer of this memoir became acquainted with him , ( 1817 , ) he had given up the doctrine of the pre-existence of Christ , and was a confirmed Unitariau hvthe strictest sense of tfoe word : his views were liberal and enlightened , being a believer ia
philosophical necessity , aud a materialist ; In the year 1798 he married Ann Catharine Dethick , who died Feb . 10 , 1804 , aged 34 , leaving one daughter , an only child . Grief at the loss of his wife in created much the constitutional irritabU
lity of his temper : but what often occurs at the death-bed of the pious was realized in his last illness , which was peculiarly marked by suavity and evenness of feeling . The disease which carried bin * off * was what ia commonly ^ called a feline * At lioughborougli and Mount Son-el he officiuted nearly » q uarter of a ccutury *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1824, page 627, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2529/page/51/
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