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      th ' $ advantages he had ee joyed from parental solicitude for his welfare ; bade then * a tender farewell ^ and hoped they shouM all be re-uuited in heaven . He referred to some little remembrances

      he had brought from London for some friends who were absent , and expressed his wishes respecting them : he desired also that his body might be examined , to discover the nature of his disorder .

      Before the morning dawned , he expired , retaining his faculties - and his firmness to the last . It was ascertained that the immediate cause of his death was inflammation of the bowels , coining on in an insidious manner , without manifesting the usual

      symptoms of that formidable malady . There was also some disease of the lungs . His early death has excited much emotion among- a large circle of acquaintance and attached friends . He was a young man of considerable talents and

      acquirements ; of great energy of clyiracter ; possessing a high sense of honour , a strong judgment , a kind and affectionate disposition , and the strictest integrity . Had Providence been pleased to spare his life , there is little doubt that he would have

      proved an ornament to his profession , and a valuable member of society . His death has disappointed the fondest hopes of his family , but they bow with humble resignation to that will which they are convinced appoints only what is for the best and wisest purposes .

      If a parent ' s heart is wrung by this sudden termination to all his anxious , his active and his successful endeavours to promote the worldly interests of an affectionate and dutiful son , a salutary lesson may hare been taught of the wisdom of moderating all our views and wishes respecting the objects and pursuits of this life . To have secured for

      his son a situation of immediate usefulness , influence and independence , must prove a source of gratifying recollection ; but it will be far surpassed by the satisfaction of having given him that

      education and those principles which have enabled him to meet death with peculiar fortitude , and which have left him to occupy so high and so lasting a place in the estimation and regret of his family and friends .

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      Jan . 15 th , in London , Mr . Wikliam Barwisk , of Warrington . The deceased was bora 1776 , and received his first religious impressions among" the Methodists , with whom he continued till 1810 , when his attention was dravm to the Unitarian controversy by the following

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      circumstance * The BfiivwMr . Kay * Who was then minister of a Calvmistic cowgreg&tion : at Keitdal , becoming a Unitarian , preached a sermon declaring his change of sentiment , and dissolving his connexion with the society to which hb was then united * With this sermdii ' Mi * -

      Barwise was much impressed . He sat down seriously and impartially to study the subject , and rose from his inquiries a decided Unitarian-. For the last eleven years of his life he was a member of the society at Warrington , where his unostentatious piety , his judicious zeal , the integrity with which he followed and the

      acuteness with which lie defended what he conceived to be truth s gained him a general esteem . The circumstances of his death were peculiarly painful ; owing to his engagements ' in the excise , he was obliged for the last eleven months of his life to reside iu London while his family remained at Warrinefton ; to this

      privation he cheerfully submitted * animated by the pleasing expectation of soon returning to the objects of his solicitude with increased means of securing their respectability and augmenting their comfort . He was thus employed when Mrs . Barwise received a hasty summons to London , where she arrived just time enough to witness his last demonstrations of affection , and behold him die . He had been seized ten days previous to her arrival with a paralytic stroke ; the attack was too violent to be controlled

      by medicinal aid , and he sunk under it in the 49 th year of his age . The body was conveyed to Warrington and interred in the presence of a crowd of weeping friends . Amidst this apparently severe dispensation , his afflicted relatives have but one stable consolation ; this

      exists in connexion with that all-animating hope , which > with a divine munificence , has thrown her fair and everblooming flowerets even across the path of death .

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      Jan . 22 , in the 45 th year of her age , Sarah , the wife of Mr . William Stevens , of Btshopsgate Street . Her maiden name was [ Hargrave . She was a member of the Church meeting in Parliament Court , under the instruction of the late Mr . Vidler , from the age of seventeen years until that church was dissolved . She

      then joined the Society called Free-Thinking Christians , of which her husband had been some years a member / and when dissensions drove her husband and about thirty others from that society , she addressed a letter which \* ras read by the Elder expressive of her view of , and re . *

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      Obituary . —& £$ « IVttlmm Barwise ' . —Mrs > Sarah SteveM . 313

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1824, page 113, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2521/page/49/