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fering from other causes . But these evils , which among the generality of mankind might have clouded the brightness of every joy , and deepened the gloom of every sorrow , were borne by her with the steady fortitude and humble patience of a Christian . With a serenity and resignation which all who saw them might envy , she committed herself into his hands who kuoweth what is beat for ail his creatures ; and , at length , having well sustained the part assigned her ,
' It pleased pitying heaven to send the kind release . And bid afflicted worth retire to peace / Surrounded by the respect of her acquaintance , by the confidence of her friends , and by the most tender and dutiful attentions of those who well merit the appellation of children ^ she sunk , without a struggle , beneath the sileut stroke of death . She is no more ! But
she has left to her surviving friends the consolation of which sorrow is so peculiarly susceptible—the memory of a life well spent . May her mantle fall upon her relatives , her friends , and ou all who loved her 1 May the same good spirit which animated her dwell also in them , and then , when * immortality shall be swallowed up of life , ' they shall be fuund together in that happy land , where neither time nor death shall ever part them more . "
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in York , some little time after the death of his mother . Very remarkable difficulties and hardships were early endured by the subject of this obituary ; but the hand of Providence is seeu directing him to a spot where he was to be singularly useful id exciting among a number of uneducated persons a spirit of inquiry into the meaning of Scripture , with fewer acquired advantages than ever , perhaps ,
fell to the lot of any who have succeeded in this useful labour . His * ' Narrative of the Proceedings of the Society of Baptists in York , " drawn up origiually at the suggestion of the late admirable Mrs . Cappe , and first published September , 1799 , was very favourably received by the Unitarian public , and liberally encouraged by Mr . Lindsey , to whom the author was introduced * by Mr . and Mrs . Cappe . This , his first performance , came to a third edition . Mr . Eaton
came to London in the year 1802 , and was immediately favoured with the particular notice of Mr . Lindsey , with whom he appears to have kept up a close intimacy till the death of that venerable coufessor . Mr . Rutt also did , to his honour , very early seek his acquaintance , and was in various ways useful to him . This gentleman was the means of introducing him to a congregation at Billericay , destitute of a minister , in consequence of
the removal of Mr . Fry . With this congregation , however , Mr . Eaton's stay did not exceed eighteen months ; the love of personal independence appears to have influenced him in this step , and in a subsequent rejection of an invitation to settle with another small congregation in the country . Mr . Eaton began business as a dealer in old books , soon after his re-settlement in London , continuing for forae time , also , the trade which he had learned from his father . On the removal
of Mr . Vidler from the bookseller ' s shop in Holborn , for many years previously kept by Mr . Marsom , Mr Eaton succeeded him , and conducted this business with great credit to the time of his death . It was about the time of his settlement in Holborn that he was able , by a happy union of circumstances , to carry into effect a scheme for missionary preaching ,
and the promotion of Unitarianism among the poor , which he had some years before suggested to Mr . Cappe and Mr . Lindsey , and of which an outline was published by him in a paper , signed " An Unitarian , inserted in Mr . Vidler ' s Magazine for September , 1805 . Mr . Eatou is known to have promoted the publication , if he did not suggest the idea , Mr . Wellbeloved's Family Bible . Mr .
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Obituary . —Mr . David Eaton . 35 /
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Mr . David Eaton . April 9 , in the 59 th year of his age , after a long and painful illness , which he bore with true Christian resignation , Mr . David Eaton , No . 187 , High Holborn , extensively knowu throughout the
Unitarian connexion ; by the members of which , as well as by many others , he was very highly esteemed for sterling excellence of character , and for native good sense . Mr . Eaton was a native of Brechin , in Scotland , from which place his father , who was by trade a shoemaker , removed when the son was about three years old , to Perth . Afterwards , while he was still youug , the family resided in Edinburgh , and Mr . Eaton has been heard to speak of his having seen , from the Calton Hill , the effects of popular fury in the year 1780 , when the Catholic Chapel iu that city , as well as in Glasgow , was reduced to ashes ; and there can be no doubt that , young as he was , his mind was suitably impressed with this exhibition of popular bigotry . The unsteady and rambliug life of his father led the family ultimately to settle
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 357, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/61/
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