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ately cite the verses connected with it , and would also produce various parallel passages to illustrate the subject under consideration . With respect to his moral character , his master , in whose employment he had been for more than forty-four years ,
gave . this-tes . timoriy ™ . t o 4 hew-citer-of 4 his memoir . ' He was an Israelite indeed , in whom there was no guile ; during all the years I knew him , his conduct was marked by the strictest integrity and sincerity j he was disinterested , unambitious , and contented in the
station in which providence had placed him . ' He lately spoke of his death as soon to take place , and of the great change death would effect , with profound awe . He then spoke with more than * ordinary aninjation of faith in God ' s raising from the dead , by Christ , to immortal life , all those who believe and obey the Grospel .
The earthly course of this exemplary Christian terminated rather suddenly . For s e veral monthshehatdexper ieiicM a difficulty in breathing . On Saturday the 20 th of April he went to his work for about two hours , and returned home on account of weakness and weariness , in which state he continued until he went to bed at his
usual hour . The next morning when about to rise , his wife observing that he was still worse than on the preceding day , prevailed upon him to remain in bedvwhere he continued perfectly qujet , jfV : bpu't ' ---ll- ' t )' clQ'Ckr'to daughter , who had been sitting in the
room all the morning , on drawing near , found he had ceased to breathe . Thus quietly his calm and peaceful spirit passed out of time into eternity . * Mark the perfect man , and behold the upright , for the end of that man is peace . '
On the 6 th of May ult ., after an illness of a few days , in the seventythird year of his age , the Rev . John Harrison , who had fulfilled the office ° f Minister to the Unitarian Congregation at Kendal , for a period of thirty-seven years . The remark ,
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that the life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure , is true , for the most part , in a still-higher degree of the devoted and conscientious preacher of the gospel . Those virtues which a single-minded pastor is chiefly bent upon cultivating , and whieh—are-most—beGoming—his—station , are precisely such as are least obtrusive , and attract least notice from the world . The wisdom that
is from above is just , pure , peaceable , gentle , and easy to be entreated . He has to do with individuals in their social capacity- —to win hearts , and not to gain applause ; he therefore extinguishes the sparks of ambition
that occasionally start up within him , and , by his own example , encourages the advance of the more silent , but , at the same time , more valuable , and more endearing virtues , which have their main scope in private and domestic life . In the
instance of Mr . Harrison , this was essentially the case . With talents , and a habit of mind that would have justified him in seeking for a wide and public sphere of action , he chose to devote himself humbly and unostentatiously to the duties of the ministry , regardless of all beside , so long as his conscience approved itself to God , and he was . useful to his brethren of mankind .
Mr . Harrison was born at or near Gateacre , in the neighbourhood of Liverpool , in the Independent chapel , at the former of which places his family had a pew . At a very early age his father , who was a respectable tradesman , removed to Warrington , where the subject of this notice received his school education , under
the Rev . Mr , Owen , rector of that place , and master of the grammar school , who is very favourably known to the public , by an edition of Juvenal , with a spirited and faithful poetical version . Under the tuition of
this gentleman , he made great progress ; and , in the course of time , was admitted into the academy at Warrington , then under the super-
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CORRESFONbtlNCB . , 221
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1833, page 221, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2617/page/29/
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