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POETRY.

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From hearts that in glory are sleeping!

His injuries stamp'd on the souls of the brave,

Their free-born emotions to cherish,— O mark not the awe-striking site of his grave

With symbols that ever can perish! But there let him lie in his greatness alone, With the adamant rock for his pillow, And mourn'd through all time by the tremulous moan,

That comes from the shore-stricken billow.

There winds that know none but Almighty controul,

Shall rage in delighted commotion, And waters shall join in high dirge for a soul,

As free as the masterless ocean.

His name shall they carry to regions accurst,

The stillness of slavery breaking; Till, in liberty's shouts of delight it shall

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The leader of the Hebrew poets' quire,
The harbinger of David's sweet-ton'd lyre;
Like thy own tow'ring eagle, that on high
Upon her lofty pinions seeks the sky.
And, turning to the sun her ardent gaze,
Rejoices in th' effulgence of his rays;
Hath darted on thy verse her purest gleam ;
Thus poetry, with brightest dazzling beam,
Or as thy lion in the shades of night
Precipitates the trembling shepherd's flight,
Or rushing furious through the desert ways
In trackless solitude alone he strays,
Thus o'er all nature dost thou take thy
way,

And mark its varions kingdoms for thy prey;

Where hid within the bowels of the earth,
Each precious stone or metal takes its birth,
Where thy Leviathan* within the tide
Of Nilus, humbles haughty Egypt's pride,
To where Jehovah guides each brilliant

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blooms;

Address to the Author of the Book of A lovely mantle clothes again her form; Though bare, exposed to each wintry storm,

Job.

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Her fruitful bosom swell'd by genial

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A brighter dawn shall bless our raptur'd

eyes,

When from that sleep to life again we rise. For 'tis but sleep: the sleep will soon be o'er,

And place us on a sleepless, deathless shore, Where endless pleasures to no guilt aliur'd, Eternal bliss by sorrow ne'er obscur'd, Unchanging spring of purest lustre bright, Unfading day with no alternate night, Friendship most true, and mix'd with no alloy,

And pure devotion, shall complete our joy. T. C. HOLLAND.

Think not your meretricious wiles,
Hold an immortal in your spares;

Behold the tomb-nor longer dare

My steps with flatt'ring lures to spread, Can ye my mind for that prepareOr rank me with "th" illustrious dead?"

Beyond that tomb my sabbath lies,

In vain your tempting toils are drest, Vain as the meteors of the skies;

I'll rest me in Immanuel's rest.

Then Mock'ry cease thy wanton smiles, And earth with all thy gilded cares,

The Trumpet shall Sound, and the Think not your meretricious wiles,

Dead shall be raised.

1 Cor. xv. 52.

Vain Mock'ry! cease thy wanton smiles, And earth with all thy gilded cares,

Hold an immortal in your snares!

OBITUARY.

Mr. Edward Taylor's Account of the late Mr. Winder, of Wisbeach. SIR, Norwich, Aug. 12, 1817.

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was with feelings of deep regret that I heard of the death of my excellent friend Mr. WINDER; and although my acquaintance with him was but of few years' standing, I feel it a duty which I owe to the memory of so valuable a man, to communicate to my Unitarian brethren, through the medium of the Repository, some account of such parts of his life and character as fell under my observation. It is perhaps known to many of your readers, that the General Baptist Church here had been for many years in a very low state. To this, the conduct of two successive preachers had very much contributed. Some months after Mr. Madge had been settled as the minister of the Octagon congregation in this city, he was conversing with me one Sunday evening on the state of the General Baptist Church,and as I did not know then even who was the minister, I proposed to accompany him to the meeting. We heard a very judicious sermon from the preacher, whose name I then learned to be Winder. The impression made on the minds of Mr. Madge and myself, from the service, was, that the preacher was no Trinitariau, although the sermon did not contain a discussion of any controverted point. Mr. Madge's curiosity was however excited, and in company with Mr. Perry, he called

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upon Mr. Winder. They were both strangers to him even by name: at the first interview he was rather reserved. I met him soon after at my friend Mr. Newson's house, and we fell into conversation on religious subjects. I was struck with the vigour of his mind, his acuteness, and his intimate acquaintance with the Scriptures. I happened to mention Mr. Lindsey's interpretation of a passage; he replied he had never heard of any writer who had taken that view of it; and in the course of our conversation, I found that he was quite ignorant, not only of the writings, but even the names of the most celebrated Unitarian writers. He heard of Priestley, of Lindsey, of Belsham, of Lardner for the first time. Up to this period, as he afterwards said, "he had read no Unitarian book but the Bible." He now read with great advantage and delight some of the writings of the above-mentioned authors, with which he was chiefly supplied by Mr. Madge, from whose conversation, and that of Mr. Perry, he derived great instruction. Among some of his congregation he soon became suspected of heresy, and he was requested to deliver his sentiments publicly on particular subjects, and those texts which are most commonly supposed to favour the Trinitarian scheme were chosen for him. usually delivered these sermons on the Sunday evening, having given notice on the previous week from what text

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he should preach on the following Sunday. Being thus called forth, he delivered himself with the frankness and freedom becoming his character. He laid before his congregation his views of Christian truth without disguise or reserve, and openly avowed his belief in Unitarianism. This open avowal displeased some of his hearers, and when the term of his probationary preaching was ended, a strong effort was made to prevent his election. Such however was the excellence of his character, his unaffected piety and the plain and scriptural style of his preaching, that all the most respectable part of his hearers concurred in inviting him to be their settled pastor. He was ordained in July 1813, by Mr. Philpot, Mr. Wright and Mr. Gilchrist, on which occasion the charge delivered by the latter gentleman was characterized by a clergyman of the Establishment here, as one of the most masterly productions he had ever heard. About this time the Eastern Unitarian Society was formed, and at the request of the Committee, Mr. Winder undertook several missionary journeys, and entered warmly into any plau, by which the interest of true religion might be served. His thirst for knowledge continued unabated; his application was intense; he was willing to encounter any mental labour to acquire, and any bodily labour to propagate Christian truth. When at home, he could scarcely be persuaded to take sufficient exercise to keep up his bodily health, and the decline which previous to his leaving Norwich took place in his constitution, is much to be attributed to his close application. In the course of his journeys he had visited Wisbeach; and the Baptist congregation there, in consequence of Mr. Wright's constant missionary engagements, were without any settled pastor. Mr. Winder was applied to, to succeed Mr. Wright, but he hesitated some time before he accepted an invitation so flattering and (in a pecuniary point of view) so advantageous to him. He urged to me his great unwillingness to leave his people at Norwich, his fear lest his removal should be the meaus of injuring the cause of truth among them, and his doubts whether his abilities were equal to the situation which he was invited to fill. With some difficulty I persuaded him that it was better for him, and better

for the cause of truth, that he should remove to a sphere of greater usefulness, than continue among a people here who really (with a few exceptions) were not worthy of him, and from whom he derived an income of barely 50l. a year. When he took leave of Norwich, in August 1816, I saw him no more, but his letters have uniformly expressed gratitude, thankfulness and regard to his friends at Wisbeach.

Such, Sir, are some of the circumstauces in the life of my deceased friend which fell under my observation. When it is considered that in the early part of his life he was a common soldier, that until he was thirty years of age he was unable even to read, and that he was shut out from all the means of improvement, which are common even to most persons in the lower walks of life, and placed in a situation the most unfavourable to the cultivation of knowledge, or the growth of piety-aud that the goodness of his heart and the native strength of his understanding enabled him to surmount all the difficulties which surrounded him, and to rise to a high degree of usefulness as a preacher, we must regard him as an extraordinary He occaand truly excellent man. sionally preached while he was in the army; during which time, and indeed after he left it, he was in some degree connected with the Wesleyan Methodists, and raised a society in that interest at Bordsey, near Woodbridge; but he always refused to become a regular preacher in the connexion, as a subscription to John Wesley's creed was necessary: for although he had not then departed much from Wesley's opinions, he always refused (to use an expression of his own) “to make him a Pope."

By his death, the cause of divine truth has lost a valuable and intrepid advocate; for although the defects in his public delivery, arising from the want of early education, prevented him from becoming a strictly correct speaker, yet there was a clearness in his mode of treating a subject, a strength of language, an earnestness and seriousness of manner, which powerfully arrested the attention. He possessed great facility in the recollection, and judgment in the use of The modesty Scripture language. and humility of his deportment were

exemplary. Fully aware of his deficiencies, he was always grateful for advice and assistance. He was known to very few persons out of his own congregation, but all who did know him respected and esteemed him. He was of a truly patient and contented spirit. Though very much straitened in his circumstances while at Norwich, and for some time suffering under severe bodily indisposition, I never heard heard hir murmur or repine: he seemed truly to have imbibed the spirit of Paul, and to have "learned in whatever station he was placed therewith to be content." Supported by the consoling views of God's character which he had embraced, and animated by conscious integrity in the discharge of his duty, he received every blessing with the thankfulness, and met every affliction with the resignation of a Christian.

EDWARD TAYLOR.

On the 13th June, in her 49th year, at Hagley, in Worcestershire, (where she was interred a few days afterwards,) Mrs. ELEANOR CRAWFORD, widow of Dr. Adair Crawford, F. R.S. Lond. and Edinb.; formerly one of the physicians of St. Thomas's Hospital, Southwark. In every situation and relation of life, as a Christian, as a member of domestic and of general society, Mrs. Crawford was most exemplary. Few have been placed in such afflictive aud trying scenes, and still fewer have supported them with equal patience, resignation and fortitude. She well knew and conscientiously practised her duty in every situation. Her piety was sincere and rational, and entirely free from enthusaism, superstition and bigotry. Her religious opinions were the result of reading and reflection, and she had taken much pains to elicit truth. Her mind was strong and well cultivated, her judgment clear and correct, her temper was kind and benevolent. She considered well before she acted, and then acted with a singular promptitude and decision. When fully occupied in domestic affairs or other business, she was remarkably correct and regular, and was always free from hurry and confusion, as she always did every thing in its proper time and place, and never let the business of one day or hour encroach on that of another, for she was peculiarly attentive and exact

in the distribution and management of her time and employments. She was a bright example of kindness and charity to the poor, being actively and constantly employed in relieving their wants, consoling their sorrows, and promoting their religious and moral instruction.

Her children will ever remember her attention to them with affection and gratitude, and those who enjoyed her friendship, and especially her afflicted friends, can never forget their loss.

She bore a long and severe illness with truly Christian fortitude and resignation to the will of God, and in the exercise of some of the most sublime and difficult duties which human nature is called to perform. She contemplated death with great calmness and fortitude, and departed in the pious hope of a resurrection to that eternal life which the gospel of Christ has brought to light. With this hope her family and friends assuage their sorrows and are excited to imitate her example here, that they may partake of her happiness hereafter.

B. C.

July 1817, at Boston, Lincolnshire, Mrs. MARTHA GOE. She was one of the oldest and most respected members of the Unitarian church there. She was an honour to her profession, and had acted through life a worthy part. Uniform, steady aud exemplary in her conduct as a wife, a mother, a widow, a friend; to sum up her character in one word, she was an upright Christian. Her religious principles supported her mind under all the vicissitudes of life and in the prospect of death. She viewed the Deity as a merciful Being, a tender Parent, a kind and gracious Benefactor, a God of love: under these impressions she felt happy, anxious to please her heavenly Father, and glad to embrace every opportunity of obeying his gracious commands. She believed in and adored the One God aud Father of all. She revered his Son and messenger Jesus Christ, believing him to speak the words of God; his precepts were her guide in the conduct of life, his promises her consolation under all the afflictions of A sermon was this mortal state. preached on the occasion of her death to a crowded audience, from Heb. ix. J. P. 27.

Aug. 3, 1817.

A Dissenting Minister's Tribute of Respect for the late Rev. S. Partridge, Vicar of Boston.

[From the Boston Newspaper.] MR. EDITOR,

I AM an occasional attendant at the Unitarian Chapel in this town. This morning, the minister preached a funeral discourse, on account of the death of one of his friends. It appeared by his introductory observations, that he had been absent from his congregation some weeks, and he noticed the death of several persons which happened in his absence. I was affectingly pleased with his remarks on the death of our late good old vicar; I pencilled them down from his lips, and, by your leave, should be much gratified in seeing recorded in the Boston Gazette, this tribute of respect from a liberal Dissenting Minister, to a respectable Clergyman of the Establishment.

"The next instance of mortality which I noticed, was that of an eminent Clergyman of the Establishment, my near neighbour, and with whom I had some degree of intimacy. Our occasional meetings were very frequent, on which we generally had some interesting conversation. He presented me with copies of most of his publications, and gave me other proofs of his regard for me, though belonging to a sect which is every where spoken against. Our opinions were at variance on some important religious doctrines, as well as public matters, but he was truly candid and far removed from a bigoted and persecuting spirit. I had, indeed, a high esteem for this respectable person, who, I believe, was a Christian in deed and in truth, and whose spirit and conduct was worthy of a minister of the religion of the blessed and holy Jesus. He has finished his course, and I trust entered into his Master's joy. And in those brighter scenes above, those regions of higher perfection and enjoyment, where all earthly distinctious will cease, where the pious and the good, of every church and sect and name, shall meet as brethren, the children of one common Parent, the followers of one common Lord, in that free and liberal, that wide and expanded Heaven, I could almost indulge the presumption that our oc

casional meetings will be renewed,
though I may possibly belong to a far
inferior class."

Addition to the Notice of the late REV.
THOMAS BARRON, (p. 315).
MELBOURN was the place of his
residence, but he likewise preached
to a congregation at Fulbourn, in the
same county, (of Cambridge,) and
upon the death of the Rev. Joseph
Eedes, at Saffron Walden, in the
county of Essex, in the year 1769, he
was appointed minister of the General
Baptist Church at that place. He
continued to perform the pastoral
duties to the three congregations till
the year 1791, when, upon the settle-
ment of the Rev. S. Philpot at the
latter place, he retired from the same,
and continued to officiate at Melbourn
and Fulbourn, till within a few years
of his death; but of late, his growing
infirmities confined his services to his
Melbourn friends. While health and
strength permitted be was indefatiga-
ble in his Master's cause, and abun-
dantly useful to society, both to the
souls and bodies of his fellow-creatures.
Having a very considerable skill in
medicine, he was enabled to relieve
many who were afflicted with various
maladies, which he did nearly gra-
tuitously, receiving little in return,
except the gratitude of those who
were the recipients of his benevolence:
hence, many will miss those acts of
humanity he was in the constant prac-
tice of exercising. He was a man of
but few words, but what he said was
with great caution and prudence.
Modest and unassuming in his man-
ners, of a mild and even temper, even
so much so as scarcely or ever to
have been seen out of temper, chari-
table and candid in his religious senti-
ments, he was respected by all parties,
and beloved by all who had the hap-
piness of his acquaintance. He per-
severed through a long series of years
in this work and labour of love, and
he now rests from his labour, and his
works will follow him. He was in-
terred in the parish church-yard of
Melbourn, to which silent abode he
had but a few months before followed
the partner of his life, one who much
resembled himself in the numerous
good qualities which adorn the Chris-
tian life.

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