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h ' $ & } AW , ttn # N * feA ; whither lie had f ^^ i in mi em ^ r in the hope that diijbge and rlie anxious attentions of a Vu | bwed ih 6 ther might'restore his health , WjttUM Henry Tagart , in the 23 rd year of his age . If ever a deep con vietigfri of the wisdom , rectitude and benefbftftice of the Divine government be
necessary to repress the murmur of complaint , and the hopes of religion needful to soothe the anguish of regret , surely it must be when the fond parent and attached family are called to resign at once a son and brother , with whose life , situation and character have been connected
all the most encouraging prospects and sacred endearments of this world . For tfce decay of age we are prepared by nature . 1 $ a career of vice suddenly checked ?^— -it accords with our notions of wise , providential interference . —But when a young man , rejoicing in his strength , full of promise arid of hope , already the prbr tectov of the fatherless and the confidence
of the widow > is cut off in the morning of his days , the dispensation is awfully mysterious . This tries the strength of Christian faith and resignation . In vain do we profce our natural understanding for an argument to justify this act of Providence ; and happy is it that we can summon to our aid the apostle ' s exhortation € i to sorrow 5
Wot as those who are without hope , * and with implicit tru 3 t can rely upon the Divine promises of his and our great Author and Finisher of faith . The youth whose rapid and fatal decline has suggested these reflections , was distinguished by th # firpiness of his religious principles , by
th f [ blameless ness of his life , b y the gentleness of his manners , and by a most trifty * amiable and excellent disposition . Having lost his father at the age of fourteen , and being the oldest of arikrge surviving family , he entered early upon his brief career of laborious and useful
exertion ; and from that time became the best and almost only assistant of the widow , and acted as a father to the fatherless . Though sent forth thus early to open a way for himself and those he loved to an honourable station in the world , and exposed to all the evils attendant upon removal from the salutary
restraints of the parental roof , it is no little consolation to his mourning friends to > reflect , that not a single instance can be traced of his departure from the path of rectitude . Far be it from a surviving relative , in the weakness of partial affection , to exaggerate the value of his loss ;
but sdrely he was a youth of no common character , who , without the encourage - ment ( if immediate example , or impulse gamed fronn a thoroughly completed TMFtttous education , held on a quiet course bf innocence and purity , integrity and uprightness , with persevering
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and steady application ' te ^ m ^^ failH r ^ who was ndt only beloved * a& '^ n ; $ &StfI cfote , but respected as an cfxatnjile B y'ftfe companions ; who neglected no opportunity which the confinement of his sftii&w tion admitted for religious instruction and intellectual improvement ; who w&s known by few , perhaps by none ^ vv ithbu t acquiring their esteem and their attachment , Asa son and as a brother he Was
invaluable- ; and the recollection of him in the minds of those who knew and loved him , will be embalmed by all those JHtle nameless acts of beautiful and affectionate attention to their wants and wishes , which , "by the world unseen or scorn'd , " constitute the happiness and endearment of private and domestic life * There was indeed that religious purity and integrity felt in his presence and
seen in his actions which often mark the victinj of an early death . He is gone wheVe the heart will be judged . Let then the trumpet of feme call the attention of the world to those whose gl © ry and reward it is that they are seen and heard of men ; but let the pious and humble Christian take comfort in the
thought , that in the breast of one who lives and dies almost unknown , there may exist a benevolence as pure , a rlrtuous energy as great , a hope as high , as in the more distinguished of the earth ; and that our heavenly Father marks and approves the secrets of the heart . This is the consolation for all the
bereavements which friendship and affection are called to endure , and this the motive for continued perseverance in every path of quiet and unostentatious , though hard and oftentimes oppressive duty . E ; 1 v
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Feb . 16 , at Southampton ^ Anne Coup Maurice , third daughter of the Rev . 1 $ . Maurice , formerly of Frenchay . Patience , meekness and resignation were united in her to brotherly kindness anii charity , and by a pious and diligent perusal of the Scriptures she aimed to form her faith and to direct her conduct .
Feb . 17 , aged 21 , after an illness of three months' duration , James , the youngest son of Mr . William Clark * of Much Park Street , Coventry . In this amiable and excellent young man were united those qualities , both of the head and heart , which never fail to ensure to
their possessor the respect and esteem of all the truly wise and good . Destined from his fifteenth year to become a practitioner of medicine , he was sent to the University of Glasgow to prosecute 'his studies for that purpose , and during tht # e sessions which he passed at this sfl&fc frf learning , his orderly and regular attendance in the different classes in w | ikli ? 4 « i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 124, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/60/
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