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    which produced a cough and hoarseness . These cotrtintted , with occasional femis * sions , titrtil he determined to return to his native air * He arrived at Warrington on Sunday , March 13 , when his friends were tnost painfully confirmed in the

    alarming apprehension that he was approaching the last stage of a consumption , by the heart-rending opinion of the physicians who were consulted . The ravages of his disease proceeded with a rapidity scarcely paralleled , which baffled all medical aid and the tenderest

    assiduities of friends . Thus , in the flower of youth , was he cut off . " His sun has set while it was yet day . ' The life of this most amiable young man offers but little to catch the public eye : he was of a retired disposition , and loved not to obtrude himself upon general notice .

    But his death , to those who knew him , to an affectionate father , a numerous train of relatives , and an extensive circle of friends , is a subject of the most agoziizing grief and poignant sorrow . Integrity most inflexible , generosity most

    disinterested , philanthropy most universal , and piety most sincere and fervent , formed the most distinguished features in his character . His love of peace and the diffusion of happiness prompted him to soften asperities of temper and to perform unbounded acts of kindness .

    Although indisposition much impeded his studies , his mind was well stored with knowledge ; and at one period of his life he was inclined to devote himself to the Christian ministry . In the Unitarian congregation at Warrington he was an active , valuable and zealous member , and it always Afforded him a pious pleasure

    to hear of the successful spread of genuine , unadulterated Christianity . It has been justly observed , by persons but little acquainted with him , that his countenance was a perfect index of his heart ; it beamed , on all occasions , with a glow of benevolence . During his short confinement he received his friends with his

    accustomed smile of serenity and delight , and the grateful expressions of acknowledgment of the soothing attentions of friends ministering to his comfort , though uttered in the feebleness of extreme de * bility , arose from a heart overflowing with the sincerest gratitude , and glowing with the tenderest love and friendship . M was his life , so was his death—not a

    murmur escaped from his lips ; and he breathed his last sigh with as much composure and quiet as if he had been falling asleep . In the removal of such a character as this , in the midst of usefulness , the light of nature offers not a ray of consolation or of hope to cheer and enligjiten the darkness and gloom of the grave . Mysterious indeed it does appear .

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    But , as this excellent youth lately * einarkM , on an awfully stxddeti bereavement of a near relative , tcMl i& wise and right . " The Christian revelation di&pfclfe every doubt and dissipates every fear . In God's all-wise designs nothing premature ,

    nothing fortuitous can ever occur . Under this delightful , this animating aSsur&fcce * survivors have only to follow the example ; which their lamented young friend has exhibited for their imitation , and to wait

    with pious confidence for the blissful period when they and he will be re * united in brighter worlds , and in scenes and circumstances which will not again be beclouded or disturbed by death . H . G >

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    r < At Stockion-upon-Tees , on the 31 st ult ., ( March , ) Mr . James Crowe , mer « - chant , aged 69 years , a member of the Unitarian congregation of that place . ^ TTis piety was genuine and sincere , urw

    contaminated by moroseness or bigotry . His attachment to the Dissenting interest was candid and liberal , embracing universal charity . In private life he exhibited a most amiable character , as an affectionate relation , kind master , and sincere friend . In business he evinced

    the strictest honour and integrity , and his whole conduct was an eminent example of the practical effects of the religion he professed . ' —Durham Chronicle , April 9 ,

    This is a strong but not overcharged or undiscriminating portrait of a character , whose removal from the sphere of virtuous exertion in the present state , has occasioned a chasm in the circle of his relatives and friends not easily to be supplied . In the particular incidents of the life of this excellent individual there

    is little to call for a detailed notice ; its uniform and consistent tenor formed its crowning ornament His sphere of action was comparatively limited , but if , to have lived less for himself than for others , to have declined no exertion of body or mind which might subserve the interests

    of his friends , his neighbourhood , his country , or his religion ; to have fearlessly encountered obloquy and suspicion by the assertion of , unpopular principles in difficult times , can stamp the character of public spiritcdncss , few have more no bly merited the title of a " public man " than the deceased ; few have better

    deserved to be held up as an example of the benign influence of unsophisticated Christianity upon man as a social being , at once enlarging his views and awakening and directing his sympathies for the benefit of his fellow-men . Mr . Crowe was on . his mother ' s Side , descended from the family of Cooke , one of the oldest and most respectable in

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1825, page 307, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2536/page/51/