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descended'to be a preacher of trut ^ t and righteousness , saw reason to coaiplain who hath believed our report V Whereas in the / Discourse ' of Mr . Jervis ' on the blessing of Christ ' s mission / delivered on the same occasion , although his subject led him to speak of the ' author , '
dejdgiiijyiij ^ there is not a phrase which in his later years he would have had occasion to modify . Now that he is gone , \ t is peculiarly interesting to observe that he here speaks , as he was wont to do to the end of his days , of the 4 resurrection from the dead and a
happy restoration to immortal life ' as the main topic of Christian instruction , as that * in which ail the blessings comprised in the divine favour and forgiveness may be summed up . ' * Without this hope , ' he procee'ds , * how limited had still been
our views ! how destitute our present Gondition ^ kJiow rugged the path of life I how uneasy the bed of death ! how dreary the recesses of the grave ! But looking for this blessed hope , the face of nature is no longer gloomy and dejected ; every object around us assumes a cheerful and
animated appearance . Our hearts are elevated with wonder and delight , and inspired with the most sublime and ardent hopes /—fp . 23 . : It cannot be too much to presume tliat this , hope ,, wrought into the temper of the soul , contributed to that lengthened enjoyment of health , cheerful spirits , and intellectual
vigour which were so remarkably his portion , and were so strikingly evinced in a pamphlet written in his 84 th year , in reply to Mr . Warner ' s traditional tale of a supernatural appearajQce ! pi Mr , £ etty after -his -decease . The vivacity and clearness of refutation , the aptjiess of quotation and illustration here manifested , the warmth of affection towards his
deceased pupil , cut off in the flower of youth and promise ? which this occasion . called jfortfo in . all its freshness ,
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place its author among . the privileged few who , after a long bright course , have handed down the torch of life ( vital lampada tradunt ) instinct and glowing with all its sacred fires . As a poet , Mr . Jervis will be long reraembered and simg in our churches . The writer of this article remembers . the ^ feeii-ng ^ w-ith-wh-iehT-t-o-adopt ^ the expression of the ardent Roscoe , he
Glowed along the lines , ' in first reading his hymn , which begins , ' The man whose firm and equal mind , ' &e . A young man entering upon life under difficulties , or' devoting himself to the cause of religious truth , to brace his nerves for the conflict , could not do better than imprint this hymn on his memory .
His surviving relict and those who attended the couch of the dying patriarch , cannot fail to receive consolation , and hrs numerous friends instruction , from reverting to his own touching description of the termination of the Christian ' s earthly career , the pious wish contained in which was fully verified in his own case .
¦< When all the powers of nature fail ; When sickness shall my heart assail , And every nobler part pervade ; When every earthly wish shall fade : sis * jje j-s # When death shall chill the vifaJ heat , When this fopd heart shall cease to beat , This , faltering tongue forget to speak , A mortal paleness On my cheek :
When my dim eyes are sunk in death , And God who gave shall take my breath ; May he sustain my fainting heart , And comfort to my soul impart . May his kind presence bring * relief Froni ( .. fgar ) , d ^^ I ? . Pnde « cy ,, and . grief , His cheering voice direct my way To regions of eternal day . ' Hymn 61 & . Kippis' CoU G . K . Hampstead ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1833, page 319, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2623/page/31/
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