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    . \ ¦ . "V * successful . In tibe earlier part of his life especially , it is understood that he was greatly admired and approved as a preacher ; and to the last , he never failed , not merely to instruct , but to interest and impress his hearers . His pulpit compositions were usually plain in their style , though not without

    occasional touches of a sober and pathetic elQ ^ ejH 5 je . _ JHL ^^^ on the moral duties and persuasives of the gospel . He was in sentiment an Arian , but seldom entered upon his peculiarities of opinion in this respect ; when he . did so , however , he was open and manly in the statement , and earnest in the defence of his views . —On these

    points he differed from all his colleagues , since the time of Mr . Kenrick , and from a great majority of his congregation , who are Unitarians in the restricted sense of the term . But this circumstance produced no unpleasantness ; he seldom introduced the subject in the pulpit ; he was too enlightened and charitable to think lightly of others for any difference of opinion ; and he was himself too highly respected for his many excellent

    qualities , and his general services as a Cha-istian pastor were too highly appreciated for others to think lightly of him for lus . peculiar- sentiments . - His devo-^ ioaal exercises in the public sanctuary were singularly fervent and affecting . It was the fault of his hearers , if he did not always carry their hearts with him to the throne of divine grace . Religion was deeply seated in his own soul , and its inspirations flowed richly from his lips .

    It has been already observed that his health and physical strength of constitution were veiy remarkable . At the age of seventy-five , he had never been confined to his bed , or kept from his pulpit , by illness- But about this time he began to suffer periodical attacks of diarrhcea , a common indication of approaching decay in old persons , which , though not alarming at first , gradually increased in severity , and , finally , terminated his existence on the 10 th of

    September , 1831 . He preached , however , and administered the Lord ' s supper on the first Sunday of the preceding month ; though his evident feebleness on that . occasion too clearly revealed to his friends the truth which it gave them so much pain to discover . He never

    preached again , but attended the chapel for the two following Sundays ; after which he became rapidly worse , and expired when he had been scarcely three weeks entirely confined to his house . Ilia end was peaceful and edifying in the extreme . A 1 A his children except Mr . John Manning , who ft in New South , Wales ? were tuoujid him , and together

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    ¦ ' with all his household , received his pious and affectionate blessing , but a few minutes before his voice was hushed in the silence of death . His memory is dear to all . May his example be followed by all I

    A short time before his decease , the congregation to which he had so long and so faithfully ministered , the word of divine-truth ,. gratified ^ Mr .. Manniiig-with a testimony of their unanimous esteem , by presenting him with a handsome silver vase of the value of more than

    100 guineas . He received it , and it cheered his spirit , on his bed of sickness , which was soon to be his bed : of death . The vase had this simple inscription ;—" To the Rev . James Manning , this vase is presented , by the united congregations of Protestant Dissenters , assembling in , George ' s Meeting-House , Exeter , as a testimonial of their gratitude and respect for the zeal and fidelity with which he has discharged the duties of the

    pastoral office in that place for more than fifty-three years . " List , of Mr . Manning ' s Publications . A Letter to a Congregation of Dissenters , 1788 . A Fast Sermon , 1793 * A Sermon on opening a Chapel at Bridport , 1794 . A Sketch of the Life and Writings of the Rev . M . Towgood , 1794 ^ 8 vo . A Sermon on the Works of Creation ,

    1798 . A Sermon on Christian Perfection

    1802 . Exercises of Piety , translated from Zollikoffer , 2 nd edit ., 1805 , 8 vo . A Funeral Sermon on the Death of the Rev . Dr . Harris . A Funeral Sermon on the Death of Christopher Johnson , with a Brief

    Memoir by Dr . Carpenter , 1811 . Reason and Roligion , a Sermon , 1814 . A Sermon before an Assembly of Ministers , 1818 . An Apology for Christmas Day , a Sermon , 1822 . A Vindication of Dissent from the

    Church of England , extracted from the writings of many eminent Divines of the Established Church , 1831 .

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    Mr . Benjamin Glover . On Sunday , Nov . 6 , at Zouoh Mills , aged 63 , Mr . Benjamin Gi . ovek . He is one of whom his friends can feel assured that " through faith and patience he has inherited the promises of God . " In his careful and diligent study of those Scriptures which are able to make us wise unto salvation , in his open avowal of the conclusions to which his examination of the Scriptures , led him ; in his

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    tfNITARIAlf CHRONICLE ; . 15

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1832, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1805/page/15/