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      Mrs . Richard Yates . 1828 . July 21 , Mrs . Richard Yates , of Toocteth Park , near Liverpool , aged 35 , much esteemed and beloved . ' * It is painful , " said Mr . Porter , the Minister of Toxteth-Park Chapel , in an affecting funeral address , "it is painful , under any cirumstances , to witness the

      ravages of the great Destroyer . It is painful , under any circumstances , to behold a fellow-creature , from the full enjoyment of his noblest faculties , hurled to the earth as an useless trunk , and in one short hour deprived of life , sense , and motion . But it becomes doubly painful and distressing when we behold the ghastly king seizing for his prey the

      young , the beautiful , and the virtuous , persons whom many loved and none hated , separating them from husbands , parents , friends , all by whom they were beloved , and whom they loved also . In such a case as this , nothing can support the mind but a firm confidence in Heaven , and a calm resignation to its irresistible decrees .

      " The melancholy event which has this morning summoned us together , is of that kind which I have here described . The strong hand of death hath parted

      asunder hearts that were united together by the tenderest ties of conjugal affection . Jt hath deprived parents of the stay and solace of their old age ; of the ' light of their eyes '—a jewel that the wealth of worlds could not have purchased ; and it hath spread a mournful gloom over a wide circle of relatives and friends . " Over the lifeless tenant of that bier , death reigns in awful majesty . ' The silver chprd is loosed , the golden bowl is broken . ' Nought now remains of what once was beauty , and innocence , and truth , but these clay-cold ashes .

      " Oh ! what heart could endure this loss , what tongue could pronounce the long farewell to one so good , so gentle , and so kind , did not religion infuse some drops of sweetness into the cup of woe ? " To stand beside the grave of one we loved and see its portals closed , not knowing whether any sun would ever again illumine its darksome chambers , would be almost sufficient to drive man to distraction , to make him doubt the goodness of hv ? Maker , and curse the

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      hour in which he came into the world . But , blessed be God ! we are not thus left comfortless . We are not left to doubt or uncertainty on this momentous subject . We are forbidden to sorrow as

      those who have no hope . " Revelation assures us , that these corruptible bodies which we commit to the earth , shall be raised up again incorruptibley by the mighty power of God , when that period shall have arrived , which , in the course of his providence , he hath appointed . Scripture cries aloud to man not to be afraid . The heavens shall pass away , and the earth also ; but we have the assurance of one whose word shall not pass away , that after having slept the sleep appointed unto all , we shall b ^ raised again . * Blessed , therefore , yea , thrice blessed , are the dead who die in the Lord , for they rest from their labours , and their works do follow them .

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      SAMUEL HAUGHTON , ESQ . London , August 15 , 1828 . Sir , The following appropriate sketch of a truly valuable character , ( brother-in-law to the late Mr . John Hancock , of Lisburn , whose obituary was inserted in the First Series of the Mon . Repos . for

      November , 1823 , XVIII . 668 , ) is transcribed from the Carlow Morning Post , and I hope you will record it in your journal , though its insertion has been so long delayed . THOMAS FOSTER .

      Lately , in the 80 th year of his age , Samuel Haughton , Esq ., a man long known and respected in this town for sterling worth . Indeed , his was no common character . At a period of life when success rarely inspires moderation in the

      pursuit of fortune , Mr . Haughton remembered the great law of his Christian profession , that no man lioeth to himself . He looked around for occasions of disinterested exertion , and he found them . In his ideas of benevolence he seemed to feel that " To every want , and every woe , To guilt itself , when in distress , " the balm of sympathy should be imparted ; and to hundreds , yes , to thousands , of

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1828, page 635, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2564/page/51/