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March 2 $ , in tlie sixty-ninth year of his age Mr . Samwgl Ppew , M , A . editor of the Imperial Magazine , and author of several well-known publications .
A little while ago he fell into a rapid decline ; and 4 esiring very much to finish his life in his native —couTityr ~ arid ^ wi thin—tke ~ ei r-de-of-his own family , he hastened to fielston , Cornwall , and died fourteen days after his arrival . Throughout his . rapid decline , his mind was calm , his faith unwavering , his consolations unimpaired . He looked forward with iovful hope to a blessed immortality .
He was born at St . Austell , Lornwall , March 3 , 1765 , of poor parents . He was taug ht to read , but learned to write by his own assiduity . At ten he was bound apprentice tq a . shoemaker . After having served his apprenticeship , he worked at Plymouth ; but afterwards returned to St . Austell , and undertook the shoemaking department for a person who united the trades of book-bindrhg , saddlery , and shoemaking . Here he read many books , by the help of a Dictionary : among these was Locke ' s Essay on the Human Understanding , which showed him his own ignorance , and gave his mind an impulse and a bias which it never ost .
He tried successively , astronomy , history , and metaphysics , and settled himself down to ' the study of the last ; applying all the while diligently to business , first for his employer , and afterwards for himself . In 1799 he published a reply to Paine ' s Age of Reason ; in 1802 , an essay on the immateriality and immortality of the soul , This was very favourably received , and went through several editions . In 1805 he had finished a work on the resurxection of the body ; but so little to his own satisfaction , that he nearly # ave it up never to see the light : he did , however , by the persuasion of friends , remodel it in 1806 , and published it in * SO 0 , In * 83 Q he
- .. published an e , Jaboratfi . work , intwo volumes , in proof of the existence of God . This " procured Jutn , in connexion with his previous works :, the distinction of M . A . from the university of Aberdeen . In his youtji he had obtained the friendship of Dr . Adam Clarke : by ^ wJiom , in-thfi ^ eitr _ I ^ l £ , ^ e _^^ as r ^ commended to the proprietors as Editor of the Imperial Magazine . Having been appointed by them to that office , he relinquished trade , and devoted himself to literary pursuits . His namegave reputation , and his labours value , to that periodical .
During a considerable portion of his life , he was connected with the Methodist Society , and for ^ many years was a local preacher in that body of Christians , . His sermons were deeply tinged with his metaphysical studies ; but he never failed to make them interesting to his hearers : for his arrangement was clear , and he possessed great freedom of utterance , unassisted , however * by - any graces of oratory .
Mr . Drew- was a Wesleyan Methodist ; but not a blind admirer of Conference , in all its ways and acts . He looked forward to a time when the Wesleyan body would be split into two great parties , —the one falling back into the ranks of the national Church , and tfie other dividing , and settling down into independent Churches , He was a Christian philosopher . His understand ^ . . ; ing was of an elevated order . His mind was richly endowed by nature , and highly cultivated by di } igent study . Hi ' s philosophy and his piety bore immediately on the happ iness and daily habits of life ; they were equally free . from the pefentry o learning , and from thp solemn and disgusting farce of religious aus terity . __ . , ,,, i %
The preceding nptice is pvwg > = » from the Christian A dvocate , ft } presented to tlw readers of the Unitarian Chronicle , because talent ^ industry , benevolence , peal , W& J > W
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1833, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2613/page/30/
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