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    ties lately performed in honour of a Cfiristian wife and mother , whose loss is most acutely felt by her family , her friends , and by this society with which

    she united in the duties of puisne worship , a society proud of the honour she reflected on it , both by the accomplishments of her mind and the unspotted brightness of her virtue 1 Alas ! what a task is mine , to lament so

    much excellence , and though deprived of it for the future , to exhort you to sustain the intensity of your sorrow t In her , greatness of soul was hereditary . Descended from ti father of a most high-wrought character , * she was early disciplined to an

    acquaintance with moral grandeur : she saw the loftiness of genius , and the inflexibility of disinterested patriotism enlisted in the cause or religion and liberty : nor did she see it unmoved . The sufferings he underwent in his ardour for the amelioration of the

    world were deeply engraven on her memory , and caused her heart to glow with a noble enthusiasm for all that advances human nature in its progress towards its perfection , or sustains it on the towering heights to which it sometimes ascends . The instructions

    she received from the transcendant erudition and classic elegance which rendered the author of her days so pre-eminently capable of appreciating whatever ancient genius offers of beautiful or sublime , inspired her with the

    purest and most tasteful admiration of the excellent : and though by a modesty most rare this was never ostentatiously displayed , no judgments did she pronounce but struck her auditors with a sense of her superiority in the delicate estimates she made both of

    sentiment and character . Though the reflection of having lost her for ever from our earthly tabernacles wrings the heart with anguish , it was our liappy lot to witness her assiduous attendance on the sacred duties of the teinple ; where the soul is sustained in

    all mat adorns and dignifies our nature by the communion we here hold with heaven , and by the august character of the morality diffused from that fountain of light emanating from the Diviae mind , which revivifies the seeds of virtue sown in our early days , and * The late Rev . -Gilbert Wakefield .

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    renders them imperishable . How en * dearing ! how refreshing to the heart when sickened , by the indifference of the world to its best interests , to behold the Christian mother surrounded by her offspring in those solemn

    moments , when the cares and anxieties of life are suspended , and the whole soul is absorbed in the contemplation of God and of duty 1 Thus by her example and her aid did she foster in her children the nobler qualities of the heart , while their mftids were imbued with

    the most valuable truths . O ! loss irreparable to that darling offspring , the objects of so many pious and anxious cares . In her private connexions , her attachment to the kindred minds she cherished with her affection , was most

    endearing ; and disclosed the value of the principles she had imbibed , and the warmth which glowed in her breast . These unions were founded on a love of the good , and must ever be remembered with exultation . * But her fa .

    mily alone , her amiable husband , and the circle she honoured and made happy with her friendship , can alone speak all her worth ; can alone paint in all their brightness that truth , simplicity and sympathising heart which she inherited from one of the most

    nobleminded of human being's . - ^ Our sym - pathies are with that family of which she was so exemplary an ornament ; we weep with the husband , the relative and the friend , over so much departed worth ; we sorrow for ourselves , and our regrets augment as we pass in review the merit we have lost . But

    in the anguish of dur souls a voice speaks within us , and assures us such virtue cannot have been in vain- To the honour of our religious and moral habits , the triumphs which illustrate our Christian societies are rendered

    pre-eminently radiant from the lustre reflected from the discharge of private duties .: they are therefore more pure ? Besides her own family I allude to her intimacy with Miss Lawrence of Gateacre , near Liverpool , one of the brightest examples of human virtue . All who are acquainted with Tier worth will know I do not exaggerate .

    t To the honour of her father be it remembered , that at Liverpool , a mart wMere the traffic in African blood was supported / he raised his voice against tne nefarious commerce .

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    650 Funeral Service for Mrs C . Aikin .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1821, page 650, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2506/page/18/