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    alas ! human attempts failed . hi the course of the time which elapsed between the latter end of August and the beginning of February she suffered much pain in the throat , ears and head . The deglutition varied . With the organic stricture was combined much spasm . The day before she died , she was affected by a cough , as she had previously been at different times ; but , after the

    cough ceased , her weakness was greater . About an hour or two before her death , there were , in the opinion of her deeply mourning husband , evident symtoms of paralytic affection . He and a beloved daughter watched her in her las > t moments , and , at length , found that she had ceased to breathe without a struggle

    or a groan . The person who was best acquainted with her , and who for four and twenty years enjoyed her aid and friendly counsel wishes to pay , his tribute of respect to her memory . Through life she was actively useful . Few could exc « ed her as a wife , or as a mother ; perhaps not many equalled her . Religion ,

    doubtless , governed her thoughts and words and actions . To do justly , to love mercy , and to walk humbly with < 5 od , was her aim—her practice . When in health , she cheerfully availed herself of the benefits of public worship . No slight complaint , nor any passing cloud , deterred her from visiting the temple of

    the Most High , She did not always consult her own ease , but , as a much-esteemed friend speaking < if her said , " she lived for others . " During her illness , under painful surgical operations , she discovered great fortitude . Patience was

    manifested by her in no small degree ; holy resignation reigned in her soul . If it had pleased God to raise her from the bed of affliction , to which she was almost wholly confined for three weeks , she would have valued life on account of

    those with whom she was connected by the nearest and dearest ties : the prayer of her heart , however , was ** Father , not my will , but thine be done . " The interment took place on Wednesday , the 16 th of February , in the cemetery belonging to the High-Street Chapel , Stockport , on which occasion the Rev . J . G .

    Kobberds , of Manchester , officiated . Mr . K « , after reading the usual funeral service , delivered in the chapel a very appropriate and impressive address of a monitory and a consolatory nature , which was concluded with a suitable prayer . The

    corpse was then removed , and with much solemnity consigned to the silent grave . On the following Lord ' s-day , February 20 th , the gentleman before-mentioned , delivered in the morning , in the presence of aw attentive and sympathizing audience , « l wry pathetic discourse , from Rev . xxi .

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    latter part of the 4 th verse , " For the former things are passed away . " The congregation was larger than usual , and most of the regular attendants at the chapel were in mourning . In the

    afternoon the preacher delivered an admirable sermon from Job xiv . part of the 14 th verse , " All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come . " It is to be hoped , that the impression made by these two excellent discourses will not be transient . S . P .

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    Feb . 25 , aged 34 , at IfShitchwch , Shropshire , Mr . John Edwards , Jun ., leaving a wife and six children to lame at his loss . His death was regarded by his numerous acquaintances as a heavy affliction , because his excellencies rendered him dear to all who knew him . Over the temporal and eternal interests of his

    family , he was watchful . In the diffusion of Unitarian Christianity , he took a lively interest . In the promotion of knowledge and virtue , he was zealous . In doing good to his fellow-creatures , he was indefatigable . It may be gratifying to some

    of his friends to know , that when the Sermon was preached on occasion of his death , the chapel was crowded to excess , there being on that evening an increase of numbers from about eighty to nearly six hundred persons , who all seemed deeply to feel the loss sustained . J . P . —^

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    Obituary . —Hfr . John Edwards . —Mr . R > C . Cudlipp . 181

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    — - 27 , at Tavistock , Mr . R . C . Cudlipp , in the 65 th year of his age ; whose memorial deserves a place in the records of the worthies that lived and died disciples of Jesus , in the belief of the Diviue Unity . ' Fair reputation is the pearl

    that constitutes the sole property of the dead . " He was a just and good man ; whose manifold excellencies were crowned by sincerity , the diadem of perfection . His faith and fortitude were subjected to the severest trial , during the space of more than nine years , under the pressure of mental affliction . When after that

    melancholy prevalence of despondency and sadness , bordering on despair , the soul in anguish , the troubled spirit was mercifully reinstated in health and equanimity , he resumed the exercise of the devout and social affections and graces as well as of the domestic and relative virtues , with rare felicity in the enjoyment of renovated nature . But this revival «> f

    social life endured , alas ! only for a short season . In his last illness , he evinced , with the perfect possession of his rational faculties and a lively conviction of the doctrine of One God even the Father , the all-su / ficient efficacy of this wisdom

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 181, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/53/