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    was clear and his mind calm ; and he often expressed great satisfaction in the prospects held out by the Christian revelation * In speaking of the miseries of a sick-bed without the

    comforts and alleviations he enjoyed , he exclaimed , " What must those suffer who are left to perish on a field of battle ! Thank God , I have ever reprobated $ war , and advocated the rights and happiness of mankind . "

    The toleration , so ably advocated by Mr . ' Meadley , was remarkably exemplified at his interment . As he had been one of the founders , and from first to last a most active and intelligent member of the committee , of the -Sunderland Subscription

    Library , it was agreed by his friends to meet at the Library , and join the funeral procession as it passed along . About fifty gentlemen accordingly assembled ; and it was pleasing to see the Catholic and Quaker uniting with the Churchman and Dissenter in

    voluntarily following his remains to the grave . Mr . M eadley ' s first accost was not prepossessing , and his manners and deportment were marked with certain ipeciuliarites ; but in his general habits he was cheerful and communicative , and his dispositions remarkably affectionate . In his domestic relations he

    was particularly amiable ; shewing himself a \ varrn friend , a kind brother , and an affectionate and dutiful son . He was inflexibly firm in his sense of rie-ht and wroner : his moralitv . his right and wrong ; his moralityhis

    , political opinions , and his religious sentiments , were founded on the broad basis of conviction ; and , having once satisfied his judgment , he fearlessly maintained what he was convinced

    was favourable to the advancement of virtue and happiness among mankind . He was always ready to allow the fullest liberty to others to think and act for themselves ; but intolerance he could not endure , and his stern integrity led him sometimes to speak of those whom he conceived to have

    apostatized from liberal principles , with a severity which his friends sometimes regretted . His capacious and retentive memory , and his unwearied ^ activity and perseverance , rendered him peculiarly fitted far the office of a biographer He wns ap free in communicating what

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    he had acquired , as indefatigable in the research : and they who kneiv him felt a confidence , that nothing would ever induce him to misrepresent or warp a fact . Had he lived , and become an annalist , there was

    none , perhaps , whose zeal for collecting , memory for retaining , and truth for communicating , would have made a more valuable recorder of public events , and collector of evidences oil public characters .

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    t Memoir of the Rev * Benjamin Goodier . ( Concluded from p . 74 . ) f llO the world how great a loss is the JL removal of such a young man , as the subject of the present memoir ; to himself how dejecting was the thought of exchanging the benevolent

    sympathies , the ardent hopes , and the wiselyformed plans which filled his animated existence , for the dreary blank of the grave ! He felt a strong , we may venture to say a meritorious love of life : he loved it , not because he possessed

    abundance of this world ' s goods ; not because he enjoyed the comforts of ease and health ; but because it afforded him the power of instructing the ignorant , comforting and improving the indigent , in whose welfare he ever took the most affectionate

    interest , and of expanding his heart in the emotions of friendship and the purer joys of devotion . " I shall depart , " he says in a letter to a young friend , when about to leave his native country , " with a considerable share of hope , —hope approaching to confidence , that my sojourn in France will be of essential service in the

    recovery of my health . Through the Divine blessing and the kindness of my dear friends in this place , I am much better thanl have been . After the long and paiflfcjl struggle I have had , to be so much recovered , is a

    subject for sincere rejoicing and devout thankfulness . I know you will join me in this thankfulness and in this rejoicing . In the exercise of your profession as a Christian

    minister , you can sympathize with me in the pleasure of anticipation I again begin to fee ! in the hope of one day resuming ttiq office of an instructor . Yo ^ wil l give me your prayers for

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    142 Memoir of the Rev . Benjamin Goodie * *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 142, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/6/