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INTELLIGENCE.
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And " visions" they were only to be , for God had prepared for him a purer happiness with himself . " The mandate came ; in ' that bright day It came , and he was called away From love , from friendship , and from life ; He passed , nor felt the paiaful strife . Oh ! they were dear , but dearer still To him , was his Creator ' s will .
S The glories which through life had shone In every sceue , to guide him on , Came with their pure , immortal glow , To shine upon his dying brow ; And the deep grateful love he bore His God , sustained him in that hour—He passed in calmness and in faith . "
Nothing can express more fully than do these beautiful words the very character of his soul , and the perfect serenity of his death . He died as he lived , peacefully , gently , calmly . It is the finest triumph of a religious
faith that the darkest hour of earthly sorrow is that in which it puts forth its brightest and most glowing light . The grave is its place of glory ; in the bitterness of woe its most triumphant hopes are realized , and in the heart which is desolated of its human affections it erects
its promised heaven . It is one of the surpassing mercies of a gracious God , that from the sorest struggles of the spirit are Wrought out the holiest aspirings and the most glorious exhibitions of our nature ; that out of the heaviest trials of humanity there issues the glory
of a spiritual victory ; that weakness is the forerunner of strength ; that death is wedded to immortality . It is this thought which has power to comfort the mourner , and , when nature has shed her tears , to kindle in that heart which is now full of sorrow the lustre of an eter-
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Report of the Committee of Deputies of the Protestant Dissenters to the General Meeting . The proceedings of your Committee during the past year , although relating to subject a of gieat importance , wilt not , it in apprehended , be deemed to posses * in themselves very dee [> interesr , compared ,
as they can hardly fail to be , with the successful efforts of your Committee in the cause of Religious Liberty in the two prccediug years . In the early part of the present year , the attention of your Committee was Called to another of those obnoxious Acts of the Assembly of Jaiuaicu , by which restraints were laid upon the Religious
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nal hope . —Thanks be to God who hath given us the victory , through our Lord Jesus Christ I Hymn written on occasion of the Death of the Rev . John Hincks , and sung after the Funeral Sermon , at the Chapel in Renshaw Street , Liverpool , on Sunday Morning , the \ Zth of February , 1831 .
" He being dead yet speaketh . "—Hob xi . 4 . Hark ! Christians , to the tones that fill Each listening mourner ' s car , " He being dead yet speaketh still , " His voice is hovering near .
O listen now , thoonce the sound Might coldly touch thy breast ; Those gentle accents float around From mansions of the blest .
They speak to youth in warning strain To shun temptation ' s way , Nor veuture ' midst the pleasures vain Of Life ' s delusive day . They speak to those in manhood ' s pride As they were wont to speak , To lay their worldly trust aside , And better riches seek . And gently to the infant band
They tell of heavenly things , And speak of that enduring land Where endless pleasure springs . And to the Christian bent with years They breathe in words of love , And bid him lay aside his fears And find his rest above .
O not m vain his death shall be Whose life so brightly shone , For ' * being dead yet speaketh he , " In accents . all his own . So tho' we ne ' er shall see him more Withiu this hallowed Fane , Yet let us live his virtues o ' er , Nor make his labours vain .
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# 08 Intelligence . —Report of Dissenting Deputies .
Intelligence.
INTELLIGENCE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1831, page 208, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2595/page/64/
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