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    situation admitted . Nothing was left undone that it was conceived could possibly alleviate his affliction in the least degree , and cheer and fortify his spirits : nor did his friends cease to testify their esteem when death

    dissolved their connexion and rendered him unconscious of their regards . Their affection and respect were shewn in the last remaining act of human friendship , in consigning him to the tomb . It may perhaps seem

    to matter lit lie with what ceremonies , or by whom attended , a young man who had but just entered on his professional life , was conducted to his grave . But there are circumstances connected with this case which

    impart some interest to the statement ; for it is pleasing and instructive to learn , that at this day , when the hearts of professing Christians are too apt to be alienated by the differences of judgment and conviction which distinguish their breeds , persons of

    the most opposite religious sentiments could meet together to follow a fel- > low-creature to " the house appointed for all the living / ' with one feeling of friendship and one impression of

    solemnity , forgetting- all their differences in these two considerations , that they were all mortal , and looked with one common hope for a victory over death as the gift of God through Jesus Christ .

    The funeral took place on Friday the 25 th of June , and was arranged with great liberality on the part of the congregation . The officiating clergyman of the parish , and Mr . Edwards , of Exeter , preceded the corpse , to the Unitarian Chapel : the

    pall was supported by Dr . Southwood Smith , of Yeovil , Dr . Henry Davies , of Tauuton , Mr . Fawcett , of Yeovil , Mr . Blake , of Crew kerne , Mr . Partridge , a Calvi rustic minister , of IIminster , and a young Welsh Calviuistic student from Axminster *—The

    under jbearers were six young men of the congregation , selected from the singers . —The body was interred in the chapel yard close to the grave of Mr . Harries , a predecessor of ^ jjltW Williams s , who died about ten # |» rs ago , and was succeeded -by ^ SSi \ Evan * , now of Caermarthenv It had

    been the intention of . Mr . Edwards to preach a funeral sermon the Sunday following the / uqeral , but having

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    been engaged for some weeMa prevU ously to preach a charity sermon on that day at Taunton , ip aid of the County Hospital , Dr . Henry Davies delivered * an appropriate discourse on the occasion to a numerous audience

    A friend , by wjiom many of the preceding particulars have been communicated , writes in conclusion : . " The incessant flow of benevolence and beneficence exhibited towards Mr . Williams both by males and

    females , especially the Jailer , of his connexion in thi » neighbourhood , in furnishing him * with all the possible means of comfort , and to smooth for him the pillow of death , is not only honourable to I hem , but highly creditable to human nature ^ Finer

    examples of what human beings and Christians , ought to be , and to do , 1 , who am not young , never witnessed . * Their reward no one can take from them . '" Thus has closed the brief career of

    a young man of high promise in the profession to which he had devoted himself , distinguished by his natural talents , by his extensive acquirements , and by his early . proficiency in Chris *

    tian piety and virtue . The ways of Providence are to us inscrutable ; they are , however * infinitely wise , and just , and benevolent . He who planted the vineyard will provide in his own manner and season for its cultivation .

    Let those who are engaged in the work labour while it is yet day , " for the night cometh , " and may b . e near to the youngest , " in the which ncr mau ca » work /' T . R .

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    July 14 , the Rev . Josiah Townsend , on the day he completed his 67 th year . His father was the Rev-Meredith Townsend , who , for upwards of thirty-nine years , was the

    minister of th # Dissenting congregation at Stoke Ntfwingtoii , much respected as a divine , and endeared to his friends by the suavity and kindncsfl of his manners . He was himself a

    correct and accomplished scholar , aud under his instruction his son Jotfiah had made such proficiency in classical knowledge , that he was admitted * student at the academy at Daventry , then under the superintendence of P ^ Ash worth , at the early age of fourteen . Here , a * may be inferred from hi&fw-

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    512 ~ Obitmvy ** - * Re v * Josioli Totunsend .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1819, page 512, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1775/page/52/