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    its genuine features ; where it shines with a constant influence on the general tenor of life ; where it sanctifies and regulates the domestic affections ; where it leads to erect an altar to the Lord , and to guide a household in the ways of religion ; where

    it produces the steady flame of internal piety—leads to uprightness and sincerity and faithfulness and truth and benevolence ^ in the various intercourses of life—to prii ^ dent yet earnest zeal to promote the hest of causes , the cause of Christian truth and duty , to direct the ignorant , to aid the

    distressed to comfort the afflicted ^ — -where , in short , it leads to live a Sober , righteous and godly life , to walk humbly with God as in his sight , with , grateful love to hint who gav « himself for us , with unconnned good-will to mankind , with manly courtesy

    to all , with cheerful tenderness m the nearer relations , and an habitual desire , even in the most dangerous period of life , to avoid the pollutions of the world : in sueh a case , what is there to throw a cloud over the bright rays of tire Christian a s hopes ?

    ** I persuade myself the hearts of those who knew him best whom for the present me have last , need no application . Memory too faithfully tells them that , though only an outline sketch , it is a distinct

    likenes " . But while you mourn , my Christian friends , and many with you , carry your views onward to that glorious morningwhen that which is now sown in tears shall be reaped in joy everlasting ; when all that made you love him as a son , a brother , a filial , fraternal , or conjugal friend , all that

    endeared him to a wider circle , all that made him respected and esteemed as a man * ind a Christian , will arise without alloy or imperfection ; when those ties which religion formed or sanctioned , will again unite you in the bonds of never-ending affection , and when the family of Christian love on earth , shall join as a family of love in heaven ! " C .

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    July 2 , at Dawlish , aged 33 , Mr . William Brown , eldest son of Mr . Richard Brown , of Honiton * This truly valuable young- man , removed in the prime of life from scenes of usefulness and solid enjoyment , though the delight and comfort of

    his affectionate parents , had long resided iu Cullompton with his uncle , Mr . Brown , by whom he was regarded as a son , and who naturally looked to him as the prop of his declining years , and as his successor in the engagements of Christian benevolence .

    About three years ago he married the eldest daughter of Mr . Thomas Fisher , of Dorchester ; and the respectability of their mutual connexions * the congeniality of their views and dispositions , the excellence of Mr . W . Brown ' s own character , and the sphere of influence in which he was placed ,

    and which would have been constantly on the increase , gave a rational prospect of long-continued happiness : but a wise and doubtless a gracious Providence ordered otherwise , and the rapid progress of disease , for a time subdued , removed him from life , whilst his more distant friends were fondly expecting his progress to

    recovery . His widow and her family had just been called upon , for the exercise of their Christian resignation , by the death of a young * but very promising member of it . * The pilrest ties of affection had not long before this been severed b } ' the loss of another in

    beloved sister ;^ present Number J we have to record the very recent death of the father , whose character displayed in an eminent degree , love to God and love to man , and who adorned his Christian principles by shewing their real influence in his life .

    Mr . Davis , the Unitarian minister of Cullompton , performed the funeral service there , and Dr . Carpenter , of Bristol , who had been requested to preach on the occasion , endeavoured to prepare the minds of hif highly-valued friends for the full influence of those consolations which he

    knew they possessed and prized above all earthly blessings . The character of this estimable young man cannot we think be more truly described than by the following extracts from the sermon :

    —r-u I usually feel a solemn hesitation in speaking of the future condition of those whose day of probation is over , lest through partial ignorance I should weaken the sanctions of the £ o # pel ; but here , abiding by scriptural tests , we may indulge a security and satisfaction of no common foirce ; Where Christian principle displays itself in ? See Mon . Repos , XIII . 278 . t Ibid . XI . 530 . IP . & 28 .

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    5 £ 6 Obituary . —Mr . William Brottm . ~~ Alderman James Ramsey .

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    ALDERMAN JAMES RAMSEY . ( From the Waterford Chronicle of Tuesday , July 28 , 1818 . ) " In recording * the death of this esteemed citizen of Waterford , and most valuable member of society , a large and highly respectable portion of the community will deeply share in the feeling's of sorroAV

    which his departure from life has produced in the breasts of his relatives , friends and acquaintances . This sorrow , indeed , will find its alleviation in the reflection , that the object of it has passed to a scene of happier existence at a good old agfe , full of honour , and high in reputation for the uniform exercise of those qualities by which human nature is most eminently dignified .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 526, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/54/