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Bibl i bawb o bobl y Byd " Tho. Phillips

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THE

EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE,

AND

MISSIONARY CHRONICLE.

FOR AUGUST, 1843.

MEMOIR

OP

THE LATE REV. JOSEPH FLEPCHER, D.D.,
PASTOR OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, STEPNEY, LONDON.

THOUGH Our materials for a memoir of
this distinguished servant of Christ are
exceedingly scanty, we cannot with-
hold from our readers a tribute of
warm affection to the memory of one
"whose praise is in all the churches,"
and with whom we have been wont to
associate, on terms of strictest friend-
ship, for more than a quarter of a cen-
tury. As we have reason to believe
that, at no very distant period, the
public will be favoured with a more
ample account of the life and labours
of our lamented friend, we are the less
reluctant to anticipate it by the fol-
lowing imperfect sketch. Few public
men of the present age have earned
for themselves a more fragrant name,
than the late honoured pastor of the
ancient Meeting-house, at Stepney.

The subject of this brief record was born in the city of Chester, on the 3rd of December, 1784. Descended from parents who greatly feared God, he enjoyed advantages of religious training eminently fitted to enlist both his convictions and his heart on the side of truth. Few who have met his late

VOL. XXI.

venerable father could fail to recognize in him the best features of patriarchal Nonconformity, of which, through a long and spotless life, he had been an ornament and a defence. Of his mother, too, we have heard it recorded, though we never had the pleasure of meeting her, that she possessed a large share of that urbanity and sprightliness of nature which imparted so peculiar a charm to the mental character of her son. Beneath the parental roof, he had every thing to make home happy, and to foster those habits of thoughtfulness which, in subsequent years, developed themselves in the form of early piety and intellectual pre-emi

nence.

Accordingly we learn, that the morning of his being was hallowed by the inward and powerful struggle of religious principle; repressing the wayward propensities of a fallen nature, and asserting the supremacy of conscience at a period when passion too frequently usurps the place of reason. It appears that he was indebted for some of the first risings of spiritual

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THE

EVANGELICAL MAGAZINE,

AND

MISSIONARY CHRONICLE.

FOR AUGUST, 1843.

MEMOIR

OF

THE LATE REV. JOSEPH FLEPCHEr, d.d.,

PASTOR OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, STEPNEY, LONDON.

THOUGH Our materials for a memoir of this distinguished servant of Christ are exceedingly scanty, we cannot withhold from our readers a tribute of warm affection to the memory of one "whose praise is in all the churches," and with whom we have been wont to associate, on terms of strictest friendship, for more than a quarter of a century. As we have reason to believe that, at no very distant period, the public will be favoured with a more ample account of the life and labours of our lamented friend, we are the less reluctant to anticipate it by the following imperfect sketch. Few public men of the present age have earned for themselves a more fragrant name, than the late honoured pastor of the ancient Meeting-house, at Stepney.

The subject of this brief record was born in the city of Chester, on the 3rd of December, 1784. Descended from parents who greatly feared God, he enjoyed advantages of religious training eminently fitted to enlist both his convictions and his heart on the side of truth. Few who have met his late VOL. XXI,

venerable father could fail to recognize in him the best features of patriarchal Nonconformity, of which, through a long and spotless life, he had been an ornament and a defence. Of his mother, too, we have heard it recorded, though we never had the pleasure of meeting her, that she possessed a large share of that urbanity and sprightliness of nature which imparted so peculiar a charm to the mental character of her son. Beneath the parental roof, he had every thing to make home happy, and to foster those habits of thoughtfulness which, in subsequent years, developed themselves in the form of early piety and intellectual pre-emi

nence.

Accordingly we learn, that the morning of his being was hallowed by the inward and powerful struggle of religious principle; repressing the wayward propensities of a fallen nature, and asserting the supremacy of conscience at a period when passion too frequently usurps the place of reason. It appears that he was indebted for some of the first risings of spiritual

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