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    weeks lie lingered on , frequently weepitig , a ** d thett dropped into that grave tu which , with few exceptions , all that Was dear to him was already sleeping . Of heart most affectionate , truly may it be said of him , that he was familiar with grief . For the most part he went mourning all his days , less for his owu

    than for the misfortunes of other * , to the utmost of his power relieving them and consoling where he could do no more . Not that he hitii > elf was ex * empted from his full share of the sorrows of humanity . Some fourteen years since he received a tremendous stroke in

    the loss of one of the most amiable and most excellent of her sex , niece of the celebrated Dr . Harris , historian of the Stuarts and the Protector , and nobly did he bear « p under his loss ; standing alone for the remainder of his days , like a scathed trunk upon the mountain . i

    < Many a tune , says he , *« has it been mine to exhort others to bow to their heavenly Father ' s behests ; shall I not also bow , and evince that [ believe what I teach ? The Lord hath given , the Lord hath taken aw « y , blessed be his name J " lu his general character * the Rev . J # Hughes was modest and retiring . He had little taste for the turmoil of life , nor ever distinguished himself as a partizau—enough for him the little world

    of private friends and connexions . But when drawn out he hesitated not to evence his family firmness , to rebuke with severity , and vindicate with energy , conceding cheerfully to others the rights he demanded for himself . He had chastisement for delinquency only . He inquired not what is another ' s creed , but what is his life ? And his right hand of fellowship was ever extended to the man , be his profession what it may , for whose hoiresty his virtues were

    guarantee . At brilliance of thought or expression he no more aimed than at eloquence of enunciation . And less would he deign to descend to the treacheries of the cruft , to angle for popularity by humiliating his better-informed conscience at the shrine of iguorant bigotry and enthusiasm . It was his business to inform

    the ill-informed , not to succumb to them j to fulfil the duties of the ministry he had received of the Lord Jesus , and see to it , that at the last day he should be found faithful , lest having preached the gospel unto others , himself bhouhi be a cast-away . With this anticipation ever npoii his mind , having digested his subject well , if he studied aught in composition it was simplicity *

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    The arrangement of his ideas was lucid , his illustrations were apt , and his appeal was closely argumentative . In one re * spect his addresses were faulty . In hie wisfy to give the fullest information , he was apt to condense too much' matter into too small a Compass . Still ( while his devotions were the otat-ponriugg of a full heart ) awfully sensible of the grandeur of that Ood to whom he

    addressed them , penicentially humbled under the sense of human imperfection aud human culpability , adoringly thankful for all his Heavenly Father ' s nier * cies , aud confidingly relying upon him fm * mercies to come ) , his sermons were exactly adapted to the moral temperament of the auditors for whom they were prepared , — intelligent , well-informed seekers , prepared to follow wherever the shepherd of their souls saw fit to lead them .

    In his last illness , for many a day his sufferings seemed to be extreme ; happily , however , for those who watched around him , his constant reply to the anxious inquirer was , that they were not intolerable . The golden bowl could not break ; the wheel could not be arrested at the cistern , without a shock . He felt it to he a merciful dispensation , and confessed the mercy which gently took the building down .

    A few days only after his decease hui weeping family aud flock followed him to the treasury in which He in whom the blasphemed believe , in whose faithfulness they can trust , reserves his jewels till the glorious morning of the restitution of all things ; in which he , who was at once the pattern and the pledge of our resurrection , shall come again from that heaven in which is the coilverna ^

    tion of the saints , to clothe this corruptible with incorrupttou , aud this mortal with immortality : or , rather , to divest the incorruptible and immortal principle of that earthly envelope in which We now tabernacle , designated here a vile body—there said to be sowu in dishonour , and to change it into the like * ness of his own glorious body . And there we bid him adieu . And there we leave him . Amen . Come , Lord Jesus J Yea , come quickly !

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    Rev . James Manning . September 10 , at Exeter , In the 78 th year of hta age , the Hev . Jambs Manning , who , for upwards of fifty-three years , had been the beloved and respected pastor of the united congregate tions assembling at George's Meeting . So great was the attachment to him

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    Obituary . — Rev . Fames Manning . J \ 9

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1831, page 719, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2602/page/67/