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    Sarah , daughter &t \ Tdfei K earrel ^ esq . of Wynnhall , in Denbigh shire , sister of the late Hev . Timothy Kenrick * Himself an only cliild , he lived to be the patriarch of forty descendants , some of whom have returned to the land , of their fathers , while the majority remain on the other side of

    ( KrTttllntfcr ™ " " ~ K . On Thursday , the 1 lth of April last , the Rev . Rowland Hill , after an illness of about a week . Mr . Hill was born in August , 1744 . He was the son of sir Rowland Hill , Bart , of Hawkestone , an ancient and highly respectable Shropshire family .

    Mr . Hill received his early education at Eton college , whence he was sent to St . John ' s college , Cambridge ,, where he took the degree of M . A ) with some reputation . Before he was of age to take orders , he occasionally

    preached at the Tabernacle , and at the Tottenham-court-road chapel , which ihre ^ som way of his receiving ordination . The bishop of Bath and Wells at length was induced to admit him to deacon ' s

    orders , which was the highest step he was permitted to attain in the hierarchy . He was , however , always tenacious of his clerical character , regarding himself as an episcopal clergyman . One of the first public occasions upon which be distinguished himself , was in delivering

    a funeral pratiott on the death of Toplady , who had forbidden a funeral sermon to be preached on the occasion , and who , moreover , had expressed his disapprobation of some of Mr . Hill ' s uncanonical proceedings , although his young friend stood high in his esteem .

    In 17 B ~ 3 rMr . Hill laid the first stone of Surrey chapel , which was opened in 1784 ; but , although he was usually considered as the pastor , preaching there constantly during * the winter , the chapel was not licensed as under his pastoral care . He generally spent a considerable portion of the summer in visiting va-

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    rious parts of the United Kingdom , preaching in places of worship of almost every denomination which ¦ wo uld admit of his services , and occasionally to large assemblies in the open air . The remainder of the summer he usually passed at Wotton - under- Edge . _ Jarloucestei : shirp

    where he had a house and a chapel . About the time that he opened Surrey Chapel , he married Miss Mary Tudway , sister of Clement Tudway , esq . M . P . for Wells , by whom he had no issue . Mrs . Hill died a fe \ v years ago .

    As a preacher he was extremely unequalj as well as systematicall y unmethodical ; generally rambling , but pithy ; often throwing out the most striking remarks , and sometimes-interspersing touches of genuine pathos , amid nmch that bordered on the ludicrous . Yet still it

    was felt that he did not mean to trifle , that there was in him no real want of reverence -towards sacred things . In the devotional part of therservice he was uniformly chaste , solemn , and fervent . Of late years the majesty of venerable age added not a little to the effect of bis

    instructions . His rising to rebuke the tempestuous discord of the Bible Society anniversary , May , 1831 , will not soon be forgotten . His physical powers bad long been in a declining state , but his intellectual energies remained almost unimpaired to the end of his existence , The last time he spoke in public was

    on the evening of Tuesday , the 2 ( of April , wh ^ n , as a last token of his esteem for Sunday-school teach * - ers , he preached to a considerable number ofth m \ , at the Surrey Chapel , from a text to which he was very partial , 1 Cor . xv . 58 , 'Be ye steadfast , unmoveable , always abounding in the work of the Lord ; forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not

    in vain m the Lord . The last sermon he preached to his sorrowing congregation was on Lord ' s day , the 31 st March , and it is said to have

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1833, page 219, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2617/page/27/