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    her so low , that exhausted nature had no longer power to maintain" the struggle , Duringf this last illness , she frequently observed , that u she was most mercifully held / 7 and to the latest moment retained her apprehension , and frequently welcomed her happy approaching change .

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    rished , that his valuable life would have been Jong- continued for their comfort arid support . Mr . Fisher was a native of Blau dford \ deprived of paternal instruction in infancy by the death of his father , the void was filled , and well filled , by the unremitting

    cares and admirable example of his mother , the youngest daughter of the Reverend and eminently pious Malac'hi Blake , who was for fifty years minister of tlie Dissenting * congregation in that town Under instructions , such as hers , he was led to " fear the Lord from his youth , " and the uniform tenor of his life may be considered as one amongst the numerous instances of the

    great importance of early religious impressions . His family connexions were all of the Calvinistic persuasion , and till after his settlement in life , such were his view * of Christianity ; but the truth worked its way in his mind , and he gradually , thougfo not without much deep thought and

    earnest investigation ,, renounced the tenets which he had before held most dear , and embraced and openly avowed , and actively supported the most cheering views of the divine dispensations . This change in hts religious opinions produced no change in the most affectionate family intercourse .

    His sentiments were strictly Unitarian , and never was their efficacy for the regulation of the life , for affording consolation under heavy and often-repeated afflictive dispensations , for promoting and encouraging the most cheering anticipations of a calm and peaceful death , and a happy and glorious

    eternity , through the free mercy of God , as revealed by Jesus Christ , more strongly exemplified than in his character . He felt the happiness resulting from such views of God and his government , and was anxiously desirous that others should partici *

    pate in them ; it prompted him to omit no fair opportunity of promoting the diffusion of them , by personal as well as pecuniary exertions , and many there are , young persons particularly , who will now more than ever value his gifts , and treasure up his advice . He was a firm friend to civil and

    religious liberty , which he inherited from his ancestors , some of whom suffered severely for their attachment to it . Mode ** ration in all the gratifications of this life marked his character , and having , by his active industry and strict integrity , realized a comfortable independence , he had just relinquished the cares of the world

    and his interest in a respectable business to his two sons . Thus the command , set thine house in order for thou shajt die , " was in him completely obeyed . The perfect benignity of the Divine Being-in all his appointments , was his constant theme of rejoicing , and enabled him , under the repeated and very recent breaches in h m '

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    528 Obituary *~ Mfs * Sarah Parsotts . —Mr . Thdnlas Fisher .

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    August 5 , at JBrigJiton , after a decline of many months , Mrs . Sarah Parsons , aged 52 , leaving a widower and a numerous family , who knew well her valu £ and deeply deplore their loss . Her understanding was naturally strong , her perceptions

    quick and lively , her affections warm and kind ; and she wanted only greater advantages of education to be distinguished as the superior woman , which she really was . During her long * illness she often congratulated herself , and blessed God that she was a Unitarian , and was no longer tossed

    upon the horrors of her former faith , when she attended at a chapel of the Countess of Huntingdon . Of this deliverance she spoke frequently and emphatically , lamenting that so great a part of the religious world was unblest with those cheering views of which she felt the efficacy .

    The event was improved by a funeral sermon , which was preached on the evening" of her interment , by Dr . Morell , in the Unitarian Chapel , Cumberland Street , and in which the fact , that the deceased had shewn her faith to be one in which she

    could die joyfully as she had lived piously , was opposed to the unfounded assertion , that the faith of the Unitarian is not sufficient to sustain the afflicted , and to console and cheer the dying .

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    If ** the memory of the just is blessed , " if the departure of the wise and good from this sublunary scene , have any tendency to awaken the minds of others to the

    fleeting nature of their own existence , if the example of those who , * through faith and patience inherit the promises , be at all instrumental in leading survivors to walk in their steps , it is hoped , that this short memento of a most valuable member of the

    Christian church , will not he without its use . This hope alone prompts us to record the lamented death of Mr . Thomas Fisher , of Dorchester , who was cut off fiom his widely-extended sphere of usefulness , by an attack of apoplex . y , on the evening- of the J 3 th August , in the 61 st year of his

    age . He had been long subject to distressing pains in the head , and other symptoms of the constitutional tendency , which has now terminated so fatally ; but his uniformly temperate habits of life , with the abstemious regimen , which he had for some time adopted , encouraged the hopes which his affectionate relatives too fondly che-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 528, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/56/