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converted what was intended as a private charity into a recommendation , With which they hare traversed the country , and , possessing the hatid-writitig of two ot three of our ministers , of whose characters and private history they have obtained some information , they are enabled to levy contributions in every town where an Unitarian congregation is found , * and to carry on an extensive system of imposition and fraud on the benevolent , to the manifold injury of the distressed , who should hereafter be necessitated to apply to us for assistance .
The evil is not so much the extortion practised upon us , but the injury—the great and lasting injury inflicted on those who should hereafter stand in need of our assistance , and the diminution of that influence which the names of oiir ministers ought to possess . The remedy I would propose is , that our ministers , though they may privately assist individuals , should , on no consideration , lend
their names either by way of recommendation or subscription , to persons with whose characters and circumstances they are not personally acquainted . This is a plan which I know is followed by some of our ministers , and its universal adoption would be productive of the most "beneficial effects . It would prevent much imposition and deceit—it would relieve our ministers from the necessity of characterizing those whom they had previ-
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William Lister , M . D . 1830 . Feb . 3 , at his house in Lincoln * s Im Fields , William Lister , M . D ., iu the 74 th year of his age . He was born on the 5 th April , 1756 , at Ware , in Hertfordshire . He married Elizabeth Solly , one of the daughters of Isaac Solly , an eminent merchant in the city of London , who , with a numerous family , have survived him to cherish his memory arid to mourn his loss , not however as those who have no hope .
The character of Dr . Lister was particularly calculated to inspire confidence and hope ; in this world , confidence , from the high-minded and unbending course of conduct which he adopted in every situation in which he was placed ; and hope
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ously sanctioned by their names , as sturdy beggars—persons unworthy of asssitanee , and least of all from Unitarians—aud it would afford to the truly deserving , who come with the recommendation of a minister , a welcome reception among the benevolent .
I am the more impressed with the importance of giving publicity to these sentiments , in a journal extensively circulated amongst Unitarians , at the present time , because there is now a person traversing the country , and levying contributions on Unitarians , who , though unconnected with us , is employing the names of several of our ministers in a manner
which they never contemplated , and of which they highly disapprove . At the same time that I would submit these suggestions to the consideration of our ministers , I hope they will serve as a caution to your Unitarian readers , and particularly to those of Liverpool , who may shortly expect a call ; if , indeed , the warning voice is not uttered too late .
They should investigate any claim that may shortly be made upon their liberality , and not be led away by the authority of high names and long lists of subscribers . I hope that the suggestion here proposed , may be adopted by our ministers , ami that , whilst it renders more difficult the practice of imposition , it will further the interests of the truly deserving .
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that iu another world he might receive the rewards of a well-spent life , and there be joined in communion with the spirits of the just made perfect . It is not , however , our intention , and it would have been far from the wish of our departed friend , to send forth to the public a mere panegyric of his character . Dr . Lister , with a modesty peculiar to himself , particularly requested that no eulogy should be paid to his memory , and that no funeral sermon should be
preached from the pulpit . On such a subject we hold the request of a dying man to be sacred ; but having complied with such a wish , we hold it to be a duty , that we owe to ourselves , to the public , and to the rising generation ,
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554 Obituary . —trUltam ' Lxster , M . D .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1830, page 554, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2587/page/50/
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