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      quest , he complied , when they were taken out of his hand . s ; and , to complete the whole , the subscriptions of those persons whose opinions were deemed erroneous , were returned to them .

      It may be asked , how I , a stranger , can be acquainted with all this . I reply , the facts I have stated were chiefly communicated to me by Mr . John Brown , of Wareham , the individual whose conduct is thus brought prominently forward , and who called on me with a view to

      explain and justify his conduct , as conscious that it must have made an unfavourable impression . I have endeavoured to state the circumstances as they really occurred . If I have " nought extenuated , " I ain not sensible that I have * ' set down aught in malice . " Mr . Brown asserts , that " no persons have been expelled , in any just sense of the

      term . " What his idea of the just sense of the term may be , I am not aware ; perhaps he thinks that there can be uo expulsion without actual violence ; that to justify the term , a person must be actually taken by the shoulders and thrust out of the chapel ; in this sense , certainly , neither Mr . Thomas nor our Unitarian friends were expelled . The Porcupine iu the fable did not thrust his

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      Mrs , Sarah Fisher . 1829 . Jan . 5 , at Dorchester , aged 40 , after a long and complicated illness , during which her sufferings were very great , Sarah , the wife of Mr Thomas Fisher . She bore her heavy trials with exemplary fortitude , geutleness , and resignation ;

      often , indeed , weeping over them , but never allowing the slightest murmur or repining against an all-wise and benevolent Providence a place in her heart , much less suffering any such to escape from her lips .

      bhe loved life , had enjoyed it herself , contributed largely to render it delightful to others , and still fondly clung to its eiideaiiug ties ; but when convinced that its termination was at hand , she could surrender it with composure , look into the tomb without dismay , and beyond it , with the Christian hope of entering upon that happy state in which " God shall wipe away all tears from the eyes ; and iu which there shall be no more death ,

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      companions out of the neat—they were only so goaded and annoyed that they found it impossible to remain . They were not , I suppose , expelled , in any just sense of the term . "

      I think , however , your readers will be of opinion that our friends at Wareham were fully justified in their withdrawment from the place in which they and their fathers had long been accustomed to meet , with the intention elsewhere of worshiping God more consistently with the dictates of their consciences . Whether others were justified in the measures they took for compelling them to this alternative , may admit of a , different

      reply . The sacrifice must have been a painful one , but it was what duty required , and was cheerfully made . It is pleasing to know that success attended their efforts ; a temporary chapel has been obtained , and an acceptable minister has settled among them , and probably at no distant period a building may be erected in which the true worshipers may worship the Father in spirit and in truth .

      Not wishing the above statement to rest on an anonymous signature , I subscribe myself , THOMAS COOKE , Jun .

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      208 Obituary . —Mrs . Sarah Fisher . —Maria Michell .

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      Jan . 16 , at Taunton , Maria Micfjell . Few persons , who have spent their days in the retirement of private life , have ever secured to themselves a greater share of esteem and veneration than the lamented subject of this memoir . Her most intimate companions can truly testify that they found in her all those qualities which constitute an amiable acquaintance

      and a worthy friend . In addition to much benevolence of heart and suavity of disposition , ahe also cherished those nobler and higher * feelings which become the candidate for immortality , and which dignify and adorn the Christian . Her active virtues had for many years proved the excellence of the principles by which she was actuated , and her patience in loug-protractcd suffering set the seal to

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      neither sorrow nor crying , neither shall there be anymore pain ; for former things are passed away . "

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      Maria Michell .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1829, page 208, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2570/page/56/