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Mrs . Mary Heyes . Aug . 27 th , at Prescot , Mrs . Mary Heyes , aged 61 . This lady was a most valuable member of the society at prescot . The following were the concluding observations in a sermon deli * vcred on the melancholy occasion of her death :
" How consolatory to us is the boj > e of being again united to that excellent woman whose friendship has been our delight , and whose loss we now deplore ! When we meditate on her intellectual and moral endowments ; on the clearness of her discernment and the soundness of her judgment ; on the strength of her mind , very strikingly evinced in the equanimity with which she bore great trials ; ou her humble and ardent piety ; on the kindness and benevolence of her
heart , manifested not only in those tears which were always ready to flow for the calamities of others , for she did more for her friends than weep for them—she thought for them , contrived for them , pleaded for them , excused their faults , dwelt upon their virtues , and advised them , when she thought that advising
would not appear like a presuming interference ; when we think how prompt she always was to rejoice with those that rejoice , as well as to weep with those that weep—for never was she heard to speak of the prosperity and happiness of her friends , or of any pleasing circumstance respecting them , but with a look and in a voice of
evident pleasure ; when we think of the great interest she took iu the moral and religious welfare of others , how it rejoiced her heart to witness in them the character of consistent Christians , and how she grieved over every indication of a careless , worldly , irreligious temper ; wheu we recollect her kind attention . to the poorer class of those who had the
happiness of being known " to her— for her frieuds were found not only among the genteel and the wealthy , not a person who had any claim to the character of virtuous was in the habit of hearing her voice without feeling that it was the voice of a friend ; when we think of her affectionate condescension to young
people and children , of her habitual cheerfulness , and of her disregard of self , carried , alas ! too far , —how highly must we value that holy religion which is so well calculated to form such a character ; which formed this character and has formed millions like it , —that religion which assures us that this dear and excellent friend shall be restored to us
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with more than all her former vigour of mind , with a still more glowing and heavenly piety , with a yet more enlarged benevolence , with all her tenderness and affection , and without any portion of the weakness with which her excellence might be blended here . We possess the same means of virtue which our friend
so diligently improved , the same glorious doctrines which she had embraced , the same pure precepts by which she governed her life , the same bright examples which she so successfully copied , with the addition of her own , the same ordinances of religion on which she so devoutly attended , the same transporting prospects which gladdened her heart : O my friends , if we may not attain to the same eminence in the Christian life
and character , let us cherish a holy ambition to become fit to be her companions in the world of purity and bliss I "
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Rev . Philip Taylor . Sept . 27 , at his residence , Harold * Cross , near Dublin , the Rev . Philip Taylor , aged 84 . We hope to be able to present to onr readers a biographical notice of this venerable and excellent man in the next month's Repository .
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Mr . John Martineau . Sept . 12 , Mr . John Mabtinkau , late of City Road , London , at sea , on his ^ passage to New York . In all the social relations of life , he was distinguished by faithfulness and . affection . About to enter on new scenes of exertion and
enterprise , he was made to feel , with one of old , " my days are past ; my purposes are broken off , even the thoughts of my heart ; " but his spirit was resigned to the dispensation . His last hours , we are told , were delightfully calm . He gave every direction which could diminish the cares and sorrows of the survivors , and left the world , with no murmurings at his lot . May He watch , over them who is the Protector of the widow and the
Father of the fatherless ; restore them in safety to their friends and native country ; sustain their hearts in the . endurance of their loss ; and enable them to rejoice iu anticipation of the time when the sea shall give up her dead , and the holy affections of earth receive the seal of heaven and of eternity !
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Rev . Thomas Ta y ler . Oct . 23 , at his house iu King ' s Hood , Gray ' s Inn , the Rev . Thomas Taylor , in the 97 th year of his age .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 789, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/65/
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