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    years afflicted with a paiuftil disorder , ) he lived to see the fruit of his labours . He has left a congregation increasing in zeal and in numbers . It was thought worth the trouble to inquire concerning the religious opinions of so worthy a

    man , and it was found that he could give a reason for the faith that was in him . — About two years since he felt it his duty to attend in the vestry on Wednesday evenings to deliver lectures , and to converse with any who might be sufficiently interested to hear what he had to advance in favour of his views of the gospel

    doctrine . For some time , very few came to be instructed ; but with peculiar steadiness he held ou in what he thought the path of duty ; and his hearers increased . His last lecture , delivered a few days before his death , was thought to be particularly interesting , and his auditors had then increased fourfold . " ]

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    1825 . Jan . 6 , at Taunton , aged 38 , after a severe and protracted illness , Elizabella , wife of Mr . Meade , Solicitor of that place . Her death is generally and sincerely regretted . An intimate

    acquaintance with the human mind and its principles of action , perfect candour , active benevolence , enlightened and ardent piety , and uniform moral rectitude , strongly marked her character , and commanded the esteem and love of the circle of friends

    in which she moved . In the domestic relations of life , her cheerfulness , her evenness and sweetness of temper , though she was almost constantly labouring under bodily indisposition ; her unremitting and anxious endeavours to discharge Iher various and important duties as a wife , a

    parent , a daughter , and a sister , —deeply endeared her to her now disconsolate husband , to her bereaved children , to an aged mother , and to an affectionate brother , whom she has left to mourn the irreparable loss which they suffer by her apparently untimely removal from the

    present scene . That she should have been thus prematurely withdrawn from so much usefulness , affords another instance of the inscrutable nature of the Divine dispensations . To employ her own words , but a few days before her dissolution , 4 The ways of Providence arc indeed

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    mysterious , but what we now know only in part , we shall fully know hereafter . " The religious sentiments , which she embraced after a diligent and impartial perusal of the sacred writings , were strictly Unitarian . But while it was her aim to

    entertain correct views of the leading doctrines of Christianity , she did not neglect to cultivate its spirit and to practise its precepts . Revering truth of every kind , but more especially religious truth , what she conscientiously believed , she never felt ashamed to avow . In the

    course of the painful and severe illness which closed her days on earth , slie afforded the clearest proof * that scriptural views of the paternal character of God have power to compose the mind to resignation , and to give it peace and hope in the nearest views of death . R . K . M .

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    Mrs . Joncs , of St . Mary Axe , the lady who was taken from this life in a manner so awfully sudden in the Chapel in Jewjn Street , on Sunday January 9 th , during the solemnity of prayer , was consigned to the family vault in Goodman ' s Fields on the Monday se * anight following . The

    Rev . S . W . Browne , Minister of York-Street Chapel , St . James ' s Square , attended on the melancholy occasion with her mourning friends : and performed the funeral obsequies ; this lady having been a constant attendant on divine worship , for several years , at the Chapel in

    Monkwell Street . The Rev . gentleman pronounced over the lifeless body the discourse here given , closing the solemn duty with selections so made from the beautifully impressive service of the Common Prayer-Book for the burial of the dead , as to make them harmonize with

    that pure form of Christianity , which prevailed in the first age of the church , when " one Lord , one faith , one baptism , one God and Father of all , above all , through all , and in all , " formed the divinely simple religion of the followers of the Saviour of the world from sin and

    death . A part of the 90 th Psalm was first rea " d . All things on earth dissolve and perish : all the external objects of human complacency come to an end ; grandeur fades ^ distinctions ceas e ; riches vanish ; pleasures pall ; we are bereft of our

    dearest and long-loved friends : thus is the fashion of this world passing away , and we are continually changing . Soon , in the common course of nature , do we descend to the grave , even when not hastened thither by those causes which terminate in an early death : but it may be said to any of us , * This night thy

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    54 Obituary . —William Ever ^ hed . Elizabella Mea de . Mrs . Jo n es .

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    Dec . 22 , at Tedfold House , Billingshurst , Sussex , aged 70 , Mr . William Evershed , a truly worthy and useful man , and a support and ornament of the

    General Baptist Church at Billingshurst . His residence for many years previous , had connected him with the congregation of the same denomination at Mead Row , near Godalming .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1825, page 54, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2532/page/54/