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    improvement of it . When , however , they were fondly hoping that the qualities which she displayed , those gentler virtues which often flourish under the softening influence of affliction , united as they happily were with a thoughtfulness and strength of character uncommon iu one so young , Mere to adorn various relations of life which she would

    afterwards be called upon to fill , her disorder began to assume a fatal character , and a rapid decline soon put an end to all their hopes . Under this and the like disappointments , how invaluable do we find the possession of the gospel ! How thankful ought we to be for the light and consolation which it affords ! For it

    assures the mourners , though the tomb is closed upon their friend , that she is not lost to them for ever—though she lias not reaped her reward in this life , a richer is reserved for her in heaven . R . S .

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    Mr . John Dendy . Jan . 24 , at Tower Bill , near Horsham , Mr . John Dendy , in the 36 th year of his age . He was the eldest son of the late Rev . John Dendy , who was for many years pastor of the Unitarian General JSaptist congregation in that town . The deceased was suddenly called away , when prospects of increasing usefulness were opening to him . About four months ago he accepted the office of deacon in the church over which his respected father . so long and usefully presided , and liis friends were fondly anticipating the ad - vantages to our common cause likely to result from that zeal and prudence of which his prior conduct gave an ample pledge . But true it is , that we know not what shall be on the morrow . The Sovereign Arbiter of life and death saw fit in his va ise and inscrutable counsels

    to disappoint our hopes ; and an illness of a few days deprived us of an upright and highly respected friend . Few individuals have enjoyed more general esteem than the subject of this brief memoir ; and at his interment , which took place in the burying-ground belonging to the chapel , after an appropriate discour .-e by the llev . Robert Ashdowne , from James iv . 14 , Churchmen and Dissenters were seen mingling together , equally eager in paying the last tribute of respect to the exemplary virtue of their lamented friend and neighbour . May his sorrowing widow in her affliction gather consolation from the hope , which Christianity inspires , of the reunion of virtuous friends in happier and brighter worlds above ;

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    and may the fatherless son be preserved to become the stay and comfort of her future years , by displaying to her admiring gaze those virtues which endear to her the memory of her departed partner in life !

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    276 Obituary . —Mr . Dendy . —Mr . Bowles .

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    Mr . Bowles . 7 , York Place , City Road , Sir , Jan . 12 , 1830 .

    I heard with sincere regret of the death of my highly esteemed friend , Mr Bowles , of Yarmouth ; and although I think it not wise to encumber the pages of the Repository with long ; biographical notices of individuals who are little known to fortune or to fame , yet where the character and conduct of a deceased friend may afford his survivors , and

    especially the younger part of them , < i useful lesson , such opportunities of doing : good ought not to be neglected . And this was preeminently the case with regard to Mr . Bowles ' s life . It affords the example of a man brought up from his childhood in a profession which is generally regarded as the most

    unfavourable to the cultivation of religious principle , yet regulating his conduct by an undeviating adherence to it , making religion a subject of constant attention and serious inquiry , and having , as the result of such inquiry , adopted the most unpopular creed of the present time , voluntarily , openly , and constantly associating himself with its professors ,

    subduing by the integrity of his character the prejudices which existed against both the professions to which he , at different periods of his life , belonged ; and , in fine , affording an example that to no situation in life is denied the power of commanding the * respect , the confidence , the friendship , uf those whose good opinion is worth possessing .

    Mr . Henry Howies was born in Devonshire in the year 17 73 . His father , who was the manager of a company of comedians in that county , and who des tined his son for his own profession , gave him the advantage of an excellent classical education , which he afterwards improved by diligent and close study .

    In the year 1800 , Mr . Bowles joined the Norwich company , in which for ten years he played what is called the fust business in tragedy and comedy , and h < : always continued to cherish that love for the drama , long alter he had quitted the stage , which every man of taste must feel . His acting was marked by sound judgment , a cure fill and critical study t > t his author , and , for the most part , by a

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1830, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2583/page/60/