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anity , when we see it practically applied to the useful and unambitious duties of ordinary life—uot manifested in noise and show and pretence , but silently forming the mind , and moulding the character , directing the life to its true interests and immortal aims , and supplying to a contented and well-regulated heart a fund of cheerful and innocent
enjoyment . Such a spirit enables us to enjoy our necessary duties , and to extract a blessing frotii the very appointments which seem most afflictive to the unthinking observer . Early in his career , our departed friend was visited
with one of the severest privations which could have befallen an intelligent aud inquiring mind , a privation which for ever closed v \> one of the principal avenues to knowledge , and compelled the sufferer to resort more entirely to his internal resources . He once observed
to me , with a rational and cheerful piety which forcibly struck me at the time , and which I therefore wish not to omit mentioning , that this privation , by the kind arrangements of Providence , had been converted into one of the chief blessings of his existence , had procured for hirn innumerable friends , had been a principal means of his great usefulness
in life , had directed his time ami thoughts ta the pursuit of knowledge and the cultivation of the human mind , and had thus saved him , by the quiet and unambitious course of life into which it had induced him to enter , from very distressing embarrassments and misfortunes to which others , whose early prospects were far more flattering , had ultimately
fallen victims . My friends , let us turn this good man's example to our own account ; . Like him , let us devote our lives to useful , honourable , and active employment ; like him , let us be forward to promote rational instruction and rational entertainment to the young ; like him , let us find a blessing in every dispensation of Providence , aud extract
the elements of improvement and thankfulness even from privation and suffering ; like him , let our Christianity be seen in deeds of active usefulness , and in faithfully using the gifts and opportunities that we enjoy ; like him , let us lean on the God of our fathers , and wait in patience his merciful sijrnal of release .
That friend is gone—gone , as we hope aud trust through the mercy of God , to the just man's reward—that friend is gone , and hath left the place which he so long and so usefully filled in society , to be filled by the rising and the young . My friends , every added year , every repeated month , reminds us what frail and
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fleeting creatures we are upon earth , and points to the vacancy left by some departed friend in the busy , crowded walks of humanity . Do we then , the survivors , incur no additional duties aud responsibilities by their removal ? Have we not their vacated stations to fill ? Have we not the functions they have
abandoned to perform in the world and in the church ? Their brief part in the drama of existence is over and gone . Their allotted measure of activity aud usefulness has been fulfilled . They leave to us the duties from which they have been summoued away . They leave to us the carrying on of the good cause of truth , improvement , religion , and virtue ,
which they , in less auspicious times , laboured diligently to promote . Be it ours , during the few short years that may remain to us on earth , fro look up with pious fortitude aud thankfulness to our fathers' God , to trust in the same good Providence which blessed and
protected them , and like them endeavouring humbly to perform , to God's glory and to our fellow-creatures' happiness , our allotted task of toil and duty , with them at length to be peaceably gathered to our rest , in the blessed and joyful hope of a final resurrection to eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ . '
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Mr . Joseph Marten . On Friday , Aug . 21 st , at his residence , Franklands * near Ditchfing , Mr . Joseph M ' artkn , aged 54 , a man of whom it will suffice to say , that he was most respected and esteemed by those who knew him best . A Unitarian Baptist in sentiment , and a true Christian in practice , he derived no small degree of consolation from those views of God , and of Divine providence , which are the peculiar characteristics of the Unitarian faith .
His remains were interred in the General Baptist burial-ground , Ditchlirtg , Aug \ 28 th , when an occasional sermon was preached by the Rev . C . P . Valentine , of Lewes . D .
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722 Obituary . —Mr . Joseph Marten . —Mr . // . Parker .
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Mr . H . Parker . August 31 st , at Chichester , Mr . H . Parkkr , Wine Merchant of that city . Mr . P . was an old member of the Unitarian chapel , and by his integrity in his commercial transactions , his general courteousness and urbanity , and his regular attendance on the ordinances of the Christian religion , did honour to those views of divine revelation which , from a conviction of their correctness , he had embraced .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1829, page 722, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2577/page/50/
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