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Mr . John Wood . Jan * 16 , after a very lingering etate jf ) f infirmity , Mr . John Wood , of Southover , near Lewes , aged 76 ; a man of genuine worth , whose many excellencies will long serve to embalm his memory in the hearts and affections of his surviving friends and relatives . Throughout a long and eminently useful life he
manifested a spirit of diffusive benevolence , and was ready ou all occasions " to do good and communicate / ' To several public charities he had long been a liberal contributor , and many are the individuals who can bear testimony to his private munificence . His deeds of benevolence were not accompanied with
that ostentatious parade which seems to mock at calamity even in the act of relieving it . He was always a steady friend and liberal supporter of the cause of religion . In sentiment he was a Unitarian General Baptist ; but apart from his own private views , being a friend to freedom of religious inquiry , his heart and his purse were ever open to aid the cause of truth and righteousness . D .
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Mr . William Lempriere . Jan . 30 , at his house , London Road , Brighton , Mr . William Lempriere , aged 59 . He had been indisposed for some time previous , though it was not apprehended , even by his medical attendant , that his illness was of a dangerous nature ; but " in the midst of
life we are in death 1 " As he was sitting with his family he was seized wilh unusual pain , fell down , and expired ! His medical attendant was on the spot ; but " the silver-cord" was " loosed , " and all assistance was unavailing . His remains were interred , on the 6 th of February , in the burial-ground belonging to the chapel , Southover .
The death of such a man is a loss to society at large ; to the religious body of which he was a member , it is a great bercavemeut ; to his friends , and especially to his mourning family , it is irreparable . He was distinguished by integrity and liberality ; liis upright and conscientious deportment ; his kind and
gentle behaviour ; his truly Christian disposition and conduct ; the mildness of his manners , and the goodness of his heart : and though the loss is , indeed , great , his / surviving friends derive the fullest consolation from the -recollection of his virtues ; his earnest endeavour to " iiva the life of the righteous" that he
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might " die his death ; " the firmness of his religfous principles , and his unchanging confidence in the mercy of God through Jesus Christ , with respect to a future state of existence , It has been thought that it might be productive of some general benefit , and might serve to weaken the prejudice biit too often felt towards Unitarianism > to close this account with an observation
contained in the ftineral sermon preached on the occasion at the New Road Chapel , Brighton . *— " It has often been untruly , and sometimes , I am afraid , unfeelingly said , that * the views aud doctrines of Unitarian Christians , whatever comfort they may give through life , will afford no consolation at the hour of death . * Whatever motive may have prompted such observations , it is quite certain that those who have made them
had never witnessed the soothing and even delightful effects of our sentiments , not only in the hour of sickness and of death , on the sufferers themselves , but also on the minds of ^ the survivors . Those who have beheld these effects , and still more those whose happiness it has been to experience them , will be able to assure the persous who
inconsiderately make the assertion , both of the error under which they lie aud the great injustice they do to a body of Christians , as sincere in their Christian profession , and as anxious for the truth , as they themselves can be . Would they acquaint themselves with the real nature of Uriitai ianism , they would find that the case is exactly the reverse ; and
would , I am persuaded , in many instances , and not only on this account , but from the scriptural nature of our views in general , be led cordially and gratefully to embrace a system which they at present so misconceive , and towards which they entertain so unfounded a prejudice . May they , and niav all ,
when the solemn warning arrives , possess those soothing convictions and enjoy those animating expectations which consoled the mind of our departed brother ; and let us , my Christian friends , cling to the same principles , under I he hope that , living or dying , we may experience the same consolations ! " W .
It will be proper " , however , to state , that the remarks referred to had been made to the deceased but a ? hort time previous to his death , and that the observations in the sermon seemed particularly called for .
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198 Obituary . —Mr . John Wood . — Mr . William Lempriere
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1828, page 198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2558/page/54/
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