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    various topics which at the present day divide the church of Christ . The issue of this faudahle undertaking was a firm belief of the simple unity of the Divine Being , the humanity of our Saviour , and the necessity of Baptism . From this creed they have never deviated . At the time when they first professed it they were ignorant that any other body of believers maintained the same or similar

    opinions . Let this fact receive its proper force with those who ascribe Unjtarianism to the haughtiness of philosophy and the pride of human reason . But to return to the subject of this obituary . Having once become convinced that he was at length in possession of the truth as it is in Jesus , he used his utmost exertions to disseminate

    the glad-tidings wherever he was able . He visited several villages in the neighbourhood of York for the purpose of explaining the Bible in the sense in which he believed that it was once delivered . At Wei burn in particular we have reason to remember him with gratitude . He here acted the part of a Christian pioneer . When he first went thither he found a

    number of poor ignorant creatures spending their week-days in severe labour and their sabbath in idleness . But he was not disheartened by the appearance of the soil ; he broke up this rough , unpolished ground , and sowing the seed of Christian truth , commended his labours to the blessing of God . He taught them to read their Bibles before they formed their creed , and lived to see a harvest which exceeded his warmest

    hopes . Better educated expounders of our belief might have preached and talked to them' for years without success ; but here was a missionary who recommended it hi the way most intelligible to the lower classes . He spoke their own dialect , was of the same rank and habits of life , had an answer ready

    for every inquiry , and what appeared to him a refutation for every opponent . Thus armed , his success was almost beyond a doubt . * He not only did not avoid , * but eagerly sought controversy ; embrace ^ , all times and opportunities for spreading opinions which he considered intimately connected with the real

    hap-*< When he first " went among them h& ^ as In the habi t of walking from York , a distahce of thirteen miles ; and when increasing age compelled him' to relinquish this , he bought and kept a hoitee for the purpose from - the small savings' of lite industry ; - ' ¦ "

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    plness of mankind . But his zeal did not carry him beyond the bounds of charity . Having himself experienced the force of habit and prejudice in religious matters , he made proper allowance for their influence on others . To sum up his character in a word ; he made the Scriptures his rule both of faith and of practice ; he was in every sense a Bible Christian . This good man died as he

    had lived , in peace with his God , his neighbour , and his own conscience . His life had been a striking commentary on his principles , and his death was a confirmation of their strength and purity . He exceeded the usual term of man ' s existence , and was brought down to the grave by the infirmities which wait on life when it passes threescore years and ten . Shortly before he expired he conversed with calmness and confidence on

    his condition with respect to futurity , expressing his conviction that his endeavours to serve God would be mercifully accepted by the Judge of all . His peaceful end is a refutation ( if any be needed ) of the calumny that the creed of a Unitarian lends him no support in the last struggle of nature . He was buried by his own desire in the chapel at Welburn , which he had been so eminently instrumental in raising . His funeral

    sermon was preached by an old friend and fellow labourer in the same cause , and heard by a large and sorrowing assembly . He will be remembered by all who knew him as an intrepid assertor of truth , as a man ready to give an answer to every one of the hope that was in him , and as an example in private life of the virtues which most dignify humanity . O .

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    A . N . Davis . March 25 , A . N . Davis , aged 12 years and 5 months , eldest son of the Rev . Timothy Davis , Evesham , Worcestershire . This amiable and promising boy was endeared to his numerous friends by the uncommon sweetness of his

    disposition . The recollection of his mild countenance , pleasant voice , and engaging manners , will ever be retained by his relatives with fond affection , and with grateful delight will they think on the extraordinary fortitude , resignation , and composure , with which he looked forward to the termination of the

    distressing illness ( though he was spared much pain ) which thus cut him down " as a flower of the field , '' and blasted all the fond hopes of his parents from

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    420 Obituary , —A . N . Davis .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1828, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2561/page/60/