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    " Matt , xiv , 27 : It 4 s / , —be not a / raid . When power divine , in mortal form , Hush'd , with a word , the raging storm , In soothing accents Jesus said , * Lo , it is I ! be not afraid / So , when in silence nature sleeps , And his lone watch the inpurn ^ r keeps , One thought shall every pang remove ;—Trn&t , feeble man , thy Maker ' s lqve , Blest be the voice that breathes from heaven

    To every heart in sunder riven , When love , and joy , and hope are fled- — ' Lo , it is I ! be not afraid . ' When men with fiend-like passions rage , And foes yet fiercer foes engage ; - Blest be the voice , tjiough still and small , Which whispers- * -- * G 0 d is over all /

    God calms tUe tumult and the storm ; He-rules the seraph and the worm ; No creature is by him forgot , Of those who know , or kuow him not . And when the last dread hour shall come , While shuddering nature waits her doom , This voice shall call the pious dead' Lo , it is I ! be not afraid /"

    One most pleasing testimony to the value of these lines was destined to meet the author ' s eye and gladden his heart * In a memoir of a late excellent American- Minister , ( the Rev . Joseph Motley , ) published 5 n the Christian Disciple , Vol . HI . p . 412 , it ia recorded that the last sermon ever preached . by the subject of that memoir , was upon the text , ' Lo ,

    it is I ! be not afraid ;'" and that " it was suggested and closed by that almost inimitable hymn by Sir J . E . Smith , " illustrative of the same passage of Scripture . Eight other Hymns , of great , though not of equal merit , he contributed to the Norwich Collection and its Supplement . Many other elegant specimens of his poetical powers are in the haiufe

    of his surviving friends ; and they are treasured as proofs of the good tasfe , purity , and delightful habits o £ thought , whjcfc rendered coinmuniop with the author eminently gratifying and Improving . Sir Jamej Smifci ^ had , by nature , a delicate , CQnsUtutip ^ and struggled , in the course of his lif ^ e , with many , attack * of

    an inflflroaiaf-ory kind . Tjq her whose tender aifection , aided by Jier vigilance , good sense , and genJAeneas of , manner , had so , large a share in ihe preservation of tfiia valuable man through many years o f feeble health , no consolation is wanting which memory can bestow , For some years past lie , bad been losing

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    strength ^ suffering from , the Juerease of painful find distressing symptoms . He had generally , however , kept his annual engagement wUh the Society , at the an * niversary and other meetings of-which he felt proud and happy to preside . But in the year 1827 , Ms hopes of reaching London were frustrated by the state of his health . Some amendment afterwards

    took place ; the return of spring renewed bis earnest wishes to meet his old friends again , and he had actually laid bis plans for once more visiting the metropolis . On Saturday , JVIarch 15 th , 1828 , he vjalked out as usual , and apparently without much fatigue ; but in the evening he

    was attacked by such an alarming fit of illness , as almost immediately forbade the hope of his recoveiy , He continued sinking until six o ' clock on the Monday morniug following , when he quietly resigned his breath , and his spirit returned to Him who gave it . His remains were deposited in the vault belonging to Lady Smith's family , at Lowes toft , iu Suffolk .

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    Mr . James Martineau Lee . Lately , at Hastings , whither he had retired for the benefit of his health , in the 26 th year of his age , Mr . James Martineau Lee , late of Norwich , surgeon . After the usual preparatory studies , which he pursued with equal zeal and ability , this truly amiable and excellent young man commenced his

    professional career at Norwich in the spring of 1825 , as partner to his maternal uncle , Philip Meadows Martineau , Esq . ; and short as that career has been , his tender sympathy with , and unremitting attention to , the sufferings which Ik ; was called upon to witness and relieve , his neverfailing cheerfulness and kindness of manner , which beamed Joy into- the chamber

    of sickness and sorrow , and his truly Christian benevolence of spirit towards every class , of hi * patients , have left a deep and endearing impression upon the minds of many , which no time can efface . His exertions were only too great for the strength of hi * constitution , which sunk , under the arduous duties of his

    profession . In the autumn of last year he diteorered alarming symptoms of decline , aad retired with his mother to the southern coast of England , in the hope of re-establishing his healthy but in vain ; he there languished and expired in the peace and hope of a Christian . " He saved other * , himself he could not save . " In the private relations of life , he was peculiarly exemplary in the- discharge of

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    OMtuary .--Mr . James Martineau l * e& . 35 i

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1828, page 351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2560/page/63/