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      services of the pulpit * regularly officiated ja the morning , and Mr . Crowe conducted the devotions of the afternoon , reading , generally , some well-selected discourse . And here , it should not . be forgotten , how animating and beneficial

      have been the effects of that association , however imperfect , which has resulted from the establishment of the Unitarian Fund . It is not too much to say , that in circumstances like those above referred to , something of despondency must have paralyzed the insulated efforts of the

      most zealous and enlightened friends of truth ; but by means of the occasional visits of missionaries , and the opportunities of contact and extended sympathy which the anniversary meetings supply , the smallest country societies are upheld and bound together , however

      discouraging their local circumstances may be . The deceased had ultimately the gratification to see his fellow-worshipers restored to their accustomed meetinghouse , and under more promising auspices than before their expulsion . To promote the success of their little

      institutions was the leading gratification of his latter years ; to hear of their proceedings was the most pleasing solace of a tedious illness ; and almost his last thoughts , indistinctly articulated , appeared to have reference to the proper arrangement of a Sunday-school recently

      established amongst them . A few days before his death the Lord ' s supper was , at his request , administered to him and several members of the family , by the Rev . Mr . Meeke , in attending to whom the expiring energies of his nature were for the last time exerted . His funeral

      was numerously attended by his townsmen , whose respect was as marked as it was merited . The Rev . Mr . Wellbeloved , of York , most kindly accepted an invitation to conduct the services of the chapel on the ensuing Sunday morning , and

      delivered a very acceptable and consolatory discourse from 2 Cor . i . 3 , 4 , to a numerous auditory , and has since added to the obligation of the deceased's friends by allowing them to print a few copies for distribution , as the most grateful memorial of this solemn occasion . R .

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      May 8 , Mrs . Horsey , wife of the Rev . John Horsey , of Northampton .

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      ~ II , in the twentieth year of his age , after an illness of between three and

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      four months , John Hardy \ second *©» of Thomas Hardy , Esq ^ Walworth . 'IMs excellent young man had made attainments , both intellectual and moral , which seemed to promise a career highly ho * nourable to himself and extensively useful to others . He had strengthened his mind by application to the sererer

      sciences , but his delight was to exercise it , and it was exercised successfully , on the great truths of divine revelation . He was a practical illustration of the connexion of those simple and rational views of scripture doctrine which were the object of his firmest faith , with deep and fervent piety , with moral purity , and with all the best affections and noblest

      charities . He also experienced , to the fullest extent , their consolatory power under the pressure of disease , and in the agonies of death . Although the Iiope that such principles and acquirements would have adorned life is thus prematurely blighted , there is yet the soothing conviction that

      they destroyed the sting of death . He has fallen asleep in Jesus . May his example influence the young , leading them " to know the God of their fathers , and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind , " and strengthen his deeply-afflicted parents and relatives to say , Father , not our will , but thine be done 1 F .

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      Lately , the Rev . Peter Elmsley , the celebrated Greek scholar . He was born in 1773 , and educated first at a school at Hampstead and afterwards at Westminster . His extraordinary proficiency in classical learning caused him to be placed in the sixth or highest form at this seminary ; but he was precluded by his age from becoming a member of the foundation . He went , therefore , on his own

      resources , to Oxford , where , without any of its rewards or emoluments , he obtained a reputation for deep and extensive learning which no under graduate had for many years obtained . He took

      orders soon after leaving the University , and proceeding M . A . in 1797 , was pre - sented , in 1798 , by W . J . H . Blair , Esq ., to little Hoikesley , a small chapelry in Essex , which he retained to his death ; but the whole emoluments of which ¦ ¦

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      the well-known bookseller , he shortly after inherited an independent fortune , which left him at liberty to devote his mind to those literary researches which w ^ re its resource and delight ; especially to Greek philology , which he soon chose

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      Obituary . —Mrs . Horsey . — -John ffardy . ~ -Hev . Peter Elmsley . SO *

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      || A pril 20 , at Poole , of hydrocephalus , aged 12 yeans , William Olive Naisii , only child of Mr . Thomas Naish . He was interred in the ground belonging to the Unitarian chapel in this town .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1825, page 309, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2536/page/53/