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    OBITUARY.

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    $ cnt the justice of hivS conduct , lias your correspondent acted in & kind and charitable manner 2 Is it , indeed , a subject of rejoicing to him—does it tend to confirm his boasted " mens conscia recti " —that he has been the means of spreading dissension in a church which was before united in the bonds of Christian

    love ?—that he has carried discord into the domestic circle ? — that he has estranged the affections of the young , and embittered , if not shortened , the last days of the aged ? All this may be a subject of glorying to yowr correspondent ; all this may be a matter of rejoicing to a genuine diseipte of John Calrin , so that the true orthodox faith be promoted ; but there is one of no mean authority in

    the church , who has said , " Now abideth faith , hope , charity , these three ; but the greatest of these is charity . ' * And after all , what valuable purpose , eveia in the estimation of your correspondent , has been accomplished ? There was already a Calvicistic congregation , with whom he might have worshiped , and experience has shewn that two such societies

    cannot be conveniently supported at Wareham ; while as to Unitarianism , so far from its having beeu destroyed , we trust and believe it will rise with new

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    James Stangeii , Esq . 1829 - April 4 th , James Stanger , Esq ., in his 86 th year . Of this estimable man it may be truly said , that as few live to so advanced a period as he did , so there are few who have exhibited more unblemished integrity in business and social intercourse , or more perfect consistency of character , whether as a man or as a Christian . His descendants and

    connexions , near and remote , will long cherisb bis memory , both on account of the example which he set them of steady , well-regulated , and rightly-principled exertions in his sphere of life , and on account of the uniform kindness which he

    displayed towards them . The reward of diligence in business was opulence , yet not that opulence which blazes out like a meteor , and is sudden , deceitful , and oftentimes really injurious ; but a gradual advance in the career of prosperity , honourable to the commercial character

    and advantageous to the community , by the opportunity which it afforded him , during many of his latter years , of de < -

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    vigour from the pressure to which it has been subjected . But the evil of such a course of conduct is not confined to the congregation which principally suffers ; the cause of Dissent itself is injured in the public estimation ; the world is always too apt to visit the sins of the individual on the denomination to which he belongs . In the present instance , however , a juster course has beeu pursued ; the author of the mischief himself bears the odium due

    to his misconduct . This is shewn by his having beeu more than once rejected by a respectable literary society at Wareham , though the Unitarians , on the principle of returning good for evil ; voted in his favour . Finally , in reply to your correspond ¦» ent ' s three pompous monosyllables , when .

    where , and how , I answer , when , where j and how he choo&es , I am ready to meet him , and will undertake to prove , our enemies themselves being judges—as I think , indeed , 1 have already done in these letters—that it was mainly owing , to his , Mr . John Brown ' s , base duplicity that the Unitarians of Wareham were tricked out of their chapel . THOMAS COOKK , Jun .

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    voting a considerable portion of his time to general usefulness , and of promoting the interests of others along with his , own . Modest and unassuming , sincere and uniform , he lost no friends except by death , and it was his happiness to gain many as life proceeded . Pie was a firm Dissenter from principle , but without the least bigotry : aud a warm friend of

    general liberty , without any of the asperity of a party man . A kind Providence blessed him with a very considerable portion of strength and vigour even beyond the period of fourscore , and just when life , owing to increasing infirmities , was beginning to be nothing to him but labour and sorrow ,, God called him away by an easy transition to the reward of the good and faithful servant .

    Mr . Stanger was born in the year 1743 , at Cockermouih , in Cumberland , where his family had been long settled and well known as warm supporters of the Presbyterian church established there in 1651 . It appears from the in-

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    Obhuary . —James Stanger , Esq . 439

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1829, page 439, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2573/page/71/