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    1818 . Dec . 21 , at his house , Hinchley ^ Leicestershire , after a lingering- illness , which he bore with exemplary patience and assignation , Mr . Samuel Cravat , aged 78 , many years a respectable hosier of the same town . Mr , Cravan was for

    more than half a century , a zealous and bighly-respected member of the Presbyterian Society of Hinckley . He was an tipvig-ht and honourable man : as to his particular views , he was an Unitarian Protestant Bissenter ; arid his interest , in what

    lie deemed the cause of truth , was warm , yet unobtrusive . He did not speak of religion as of a thing in which he felt no concern , hut having himself felt the happy influence of Christianity on his own heart , he was anxious that others should taste and

    know the pleasures of true religion * He was habitually prepared to meet death , in whatever way it might approach him : this was a frequent topic of conversation with his most intimate friends , and he often spoke of it as an event highly to be desired : he always spoke of dying with a

    composure and tranquillity equally removed front stoical indifference and presumptuous assurance . In his frame of miad were seen the security of the Christian ' s hope , and the mild glory of the Christian ' s triumph . Many were his a « ts

    of kindness and charity , but they were performed without ostentation ; tlieir operation was often * in secret , but of their effects many now living can testify . A funeral sermon was preached on occasion of his death , by the " writer of this sketch , from 1 Pet . i . 3 , to a numerous congregation . C . N . S .

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    1819 . Jan . 23 , at his house at Moriston , near Glasgow , after a long and painful illness , Robert Smith , Esq ., aged 73 . He was buried in the Hi £ h Church Yard , on the 29 th instant . A very numerous and respectable traia of mourners , among whom were several of the Professors of the

    University , accompanied his remains to the place of interment . Mr . Smith's father was an elder in the North West Church , during the ministry of the Rev . Dr . Findlay , afterwards Professor of Divinity . A tribute of personal , respect , and of

    congregational gratitude , was on the following Sunday paid to the memory of the deceased , in the services of Union Chapel . The preacher selected , as appropriate to the occasion , the words of the devout Simeon , ( Luke ii . 29 , 30 , ) " Lord , now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace , according to

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    thy Word : for mine eyes have seen thy salvation . " This gentleman possessed a warm and benevolent concern for the improvement of mankind , and had diligently availed himself of the means with * which Providence

    had amply favoured him for gaining information on the principal subjects which affect the progress of Iniman civilization . In the formation of his political and religious opinions , he evinced a determination to think for himself . He was a zealous

    and well-informed believer in the divine authority of the Jewish and Christian revelations . Those who were favoured with his unreserved intercourse , could not but admire'the rectitude of bis moral principles , the soundness and vigour of his understanding , the generosity of his disposition ,

    and his habitually pious and cheerful reference to the , government of a wise and benevolent Creator * Mr . Smith was upon principle a Unitarian Christian ; and however this may in vulgar opinion detract from his worth and sully his reputation ; , Christians of all denominations , who love

    genuine honesty in the avowal , and libe-f rality * in the support of what they believe to be the truth;—all who are superior to " the fear of man which biingetK a snare , " know how to appreciate and how to value

    a Arm ness of principle which shrank not from the certainty of popular odium , and a manly assertion of the right and duty of private judgment , not in the barrenness of theory merely , but in the palpable and resistless evidence of human life . In the

    merciful hands of our heavenly Father who judgeth righteously , his pure and elevated piety will secure for him that approbation which is " belter that life , ' and all the joys by which life is distinguished . ( Thus far was inserted in the * Glasgow Chronicle . )

    For several years past , Mr . Smith ha 4 retired from the active employments , from the hurry and bustle of life ; and had chiefly confined himself to the ordinary pleasures of domestic intercourse , and the

    increase of that useful knowledge , which he already possessed in abundance . It is delightful when a taste has been formed like his , s *> pure and rational , in favour of books of a right description , which are , capable of yielding to the mind * released

    * Mir ; Smith subscribed £ 150 . towards the erection of Union Chapel , Glasgow , which sum , though at first lent , he afterwards wholly relinquished * See Man . Renos . XII . 636 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 192, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/56/