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    Edmund Johnston , Eso . 1828 . May 18 , in the city of Dublin , at the advanced age of 81 , Edmund Johnston , Esq . He received his early education in a school at Frenchay , near Bristol . In Dublin , where his father

    was a notary , he was apprenticed to an eminent merchant ; but quitted that line , and occupied a bleach-green , about three miles from the city , during twenty-five years , in which time he accumulated what in Ireland is considered a large fortune .

    His habits and feelings were peculiar . He could not endure to expend money on himself , in show , or luxury , or even comfort . When he retired from business , he purchased a small house in the city , in which was neither good furniture , nor a cellar well stored , nor a table well kept , nor man-servant , nor any thing which might indicate that he had the means of comfort . Yet this man , so self-denying , ao . plain iu his dress , and food , and furniture , actually expended

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    to Christianity , and has not Charity , is an infidel in masquerade ; a spy upon the faith ; a religious juggler ; a dead mimic of the Divine life . He mocks God , cheats man , and damns himself ! He is the very sink of sin ; for in him ' -oil the vices of the world disimbogue themselves , as into a common emunctory . Oh the other hand , he that exercises and fulfils this duty in his practice , is a perfect Christians a believer in his true colours ; a champion of the faith ; * an Israelite indeed , in whom there Is no

    guile ; ' ' a living stone in the temple of God ! ' 'He runs with patience the race set before him ; ' he practises sobriety , righteousness , and godliness , towards God , man , and himself ; his soul is the receptacle of goodness , the centre

    of piety , in which all the virtues delight to inhabit . In all things he has a holy tenderness , and acts even to the curiosity and niceness of Divine love . Though his body dwells on earth , his soul lives in Heaven ; he couches under the shadow of the tree of Paradise ; he breathes immortal air ; and often tastes of the fruit of « the tree of life .

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    thousands on the poor . There was not a parish school or hospital in Dublin which did not largely share his bounty . For one of the latter , whilst in building , he gave a thousand pounds . To each of two maiden sisters , who lived with him , he gave two thousand pounds , that they might feel the blessing of independence . To others of his poorer relatives he was equally munificent . His benevolence ,

    indeed , was unwearied . Nor was he indiscriminate in the objects of his bounty . He would either himself , or through some friend , ascertain the truth or falsehood of the tale o » f misery before he bestowed relief . Through life he continued a devout worshiper iu the Protestant Dissenting Chapel of Eustace Street , and the most munificent supporter of the ministry in that church , and of its various charitable institutions .

    He was a subscriber to its library , and , on his death-bed , bestowed on it a book which he highly valued , and in which he was wont to read—the translation of the

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    492 Ohituafy . —Edmund Johnston , Esq .

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    Chanty . To the Editor . Sir , In addition to the very lenient remarks of your Reviewer , and of a correspondent , on the crude and sour effusions of the Theologian of Ongar , I crave your insertion of a passage from the third part of an old edition of " the Pilgrim ' s Progres" ( said , in the modern editions of the two first parts , not to have been written by John Bunyau *) . I submit it to the diligent study of your juvenile readers , for it is to them that we are more especially to look in the future promotion of '" Bible religion . ' * J . L .

    " Mercy" an allegorical personage , speaks thus : " Certainly , Charity is the very flower and quintessence of all Christian virtues , the particular glory of the Christian religion , and the fulfilling both the law and the prophets . He that pretends

    * Q . By whom was it written ?

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1828, page 492, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2562/page/60/