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    Liverpool and Bristol shall be read y for your insertion in your next Number . * AN OATH-OPPOSER ,

    Sir , YOUR Obituary , by announcing [ p . 445 } the decease of Mr . William Saint of Norwich , reminds me of the great obligation under which the kind and friendly attention of that worthy gentleman formerly laid me and my family . In the depth of my distress , arising from a cause which for peace' sake I shall hot specify , he made me frequent visits * accompanied

    me in numerous walks , lent me several of his books , made my daughter some very welcome presents , and appeared anxious in the greatest degree to soften our sorrows and to lighten the load under which we most unjustly laboured * Since we left the place we have been favoured with some of the

    most tender and consolatory letters that a feeling heart and an enlightened mind could dictate . Having his time very much occupied with his pupils , he was not able to write so often as he wished , but when he did possess a little interval of leisure , he employed it in writing us letters so long , so

    replete with all kinds of information that he thought likely to be interesting to us , and interspersed with such a number of judicious , sensible and pleasing observations , that they might be called pamphlets more properly than letters . One of these which is

    now before me , dated April 16 , 1813 , consists of not less than forty-four pages octavo . Blessed , for ever blessed be the memory of this generous , kindhearted , excellent person ! I feel not

    merely the highest esteem and veneration , but the warmest gratitude and affection towards him , and the bumble hope of being one day permitted to renew my intercourse with liim , under all the favourable circumstances

    of an improved and ameliorated condition , inspires me wit / h the most exquisite pleasure . For some time past our correspondence has been intermitted , and 1 rather wished it should be so , knowing bow grezit a sufferer he was by ill health , and fearful of his exerting himself too much in answer-* We shall be obliged to our Correspondent by his transmitting these valuable documents , Ed .

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    ing my letters . All the consolation that it was in my power to give him I had already given him , both in converastion and by letter * Counsel and exhortations to patience , submission and fortitude , I was not sparing of .

    The hopes which Christj £ iuty * . inspires , and the prospects it opens to our view , I repeatedly proposed to him , and in short omitted no argument that my reading and reflection . suggested to fortify his mind , and enable him to endure his afflictions like

    a true follower of a meek and suffering Saviour . Having done thus much I felt my inability to do more for him , and , therefore , though I frequently thought and spoke of him with feelings ' of deep concern and anxious interest , yet 1 judged it best , all things considered , to content mvself with

    hearing of him rather than from him , or exposing him to the effort of answering my letters , when I was well convinced he could not do it without injury to . himself .

    Never , whilst memory holds its seat in my breast , shall I forget the many interesting , agreeable and ina * proving conversations that . I have had with him . His mind was well fur *

    nished with knowledge of various kinds , and no man could shew greater readiness to com / nunicate it . His mode of reasoning was clear , distinct , and well calculated to convince , without any thing positive or dogmatical , and free from any affectation of

    extraordinary sagacity ^ or superior attainments . He appeared , alway disposed to argue for the truth , and not for victdry , wishing rather to have his own opinions rectified , if they were wrong , than to bring over others to think with himself . Upon religious

    topics there was certainly some degree of reserve , and as I believed I knew the cause of it , I was averse to press him , lest he might think I took undue liberties with him . and feel himself

    hurt and mortified . Upon political , philological , philosophical and metaphysical subjects , we generally had but one opinion , and from what occasionally fell from his lips , I did not hesitate to draw the conclusion that

    there was but a trifling degree of discrepancy between us in regard to religion . My opinion of the indispensable duty which all men are under to render their conduct in every in-

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    Tribute to tie Memory of Mr . William Saint . 493

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1819, page 493, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1775/page/33/