Current:

Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1824, Edition 1 of 1, Page 424

Page 424
Page 40
40 of 64

On this page

  • Departments (1)
    • OBITUARY.
  • Text (5)
  • Transcript

    • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

      Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

      Untitled Article

      ( 424 , )

      Untitled Article

      In the last Number of the Repository , ( p . 3 ( 55 , ) was briefly noticed the death of Thomas Martineau , M . D .,, late of Norwich , It was then justly stated , that * he had left behind him the memory of talents and virtues not soon to be

      effaced . " But beside those who can promise themselves that in their own minds it shall not be effaced , there may be others who will be gratified , and perhaps improved , by a more particular direction of their attention to some points in his character . It is left to those who were bound to him by the sacred ties of friendship and kindred ; to think of him as he appeared to them , to cherish the remembrance of his pure and rational tastes , of his gentle and affectionate dispositions . It is left to those who knew him , and knew him intimately , to call back with

      mingled pleasure and regret the powers and beauties of a mind , which its retiring delicacy prevented from being thoroughly known to more than a few . It is intended only to notice that part of his character which may properly be claimed as belonging to the public *

      Untitled Article

      From his childhood he had looked forward to the profession of a surgeon , as that which was honourably to occupy his future life ; and , perhaps , no one ever entered upon the exercise of that

      profession with higher ideas of its importance , or a more generous ardour to rind in it a sphere of active and extensive usefulness . If he might be called ambitious , yet his was not an ambition that terminated in himself . It was an

      ambition for the advancement of valuable science—an ambition which looked less to his own distinction than to the honour of his profession and the good of his fellow-creatures * He seemed peculiarly alive to all that is inviting to a benevolent

      spirit in the power of giving health to the sick and ease to the suffering . He seemed , by the gentle hand and compassionate heart which he brought to his professional duties , to be promptly and gladly obeying a call to a ministry of

      mercy . With this reverence and love for his profession , it could not be without keen regret that he was compelled to relinquish the prospects of success in it , with which he had been established in his native city . But he had studied in

      another school beside that of science , and knew that , in the ordering of human affairs , there is a wiser will than that of man . He quitted with Christian fortitude a situation of great and increasing promise to the hopes with which he had looked forward into life from his earliest

      childhood . He bore with the same fortitude the long suspense of the experiment ^ which , alas ! was destined to be unavailing , for the recovery of his health . And the still severer trial which he had to undergo soon after his arrival at Madeira , in the loss of an only child that had seemed bona for the comfort of its parents in their banishment , only shewed how much more of the same fortitude he could exert for

      the support not only of himself , but of another whose grief was added to his own . With an activity of mind unsubdued by sorrow and unimpaired by the wasting of bodily strength , with a constant desire to preserve his power of usefulness , should the opportunity of exercising it

      be again afforded to him , he continued ,, while himself the prey of disease , to pursue the studies which might enable him to administer health , to others . He prepared for death by adding * continually to his preparation for making his life valuable , should he be permitted to live . In 3 hort , he looked upon both life and

      Obituary.

      OBITUARY .

      Untitled Article

      182 4 . June 8 , at Trull 9 near Taunton , in th' £ 73 rd year of bis age , Mr . Joseph Billbtt , forty yearsmasterof the Freemen * jol of the former place . His surviving partner in life , to whom he had been

      united for nearly half a century , and Sfjven of their offspring , have to mourn Ijis loss . During the above period he was an exemplary member of the Unitarian ^ Baptist Church , formerly under the pastoral care of the venerable Dr . Toulmin .

      The deceased was taken ill at Bristol while on a visit to two of his daughters ; but finding his end approaching he hastened home to the bosom of his family , desirous of finishing his earthly course amidst the scenes and near the objects which had long engaged his attention

      and affections . Having , with the calm resignation and hope of the Christian , bidden them a Anal farewell , he was heard to declare himself ready for the summons of death , expressing his gratitude to his heavenly Father for the innumerable blessings which , during the long course of his life , he had enjoyed *

      Untitled Article

      June 27 , at his brother ' s house , Aldenham , Herts , aged 75 , Thomas Baker , M . D ,, after a week's illness . He was a member of the Unitarian Church at St . Albans , and died as he lived , the good man and amiable Christian .

  • Citation
    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1824, page 424, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2526/page/40/