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RAWE, _Norwich_. Widow of Spicer Crawe. 77 3mo. 8 1850 TABITHA CROSLAND, _Bradford_. Wife of Robert Crosland. 45 10mo. 29 1849 RACHEL CURCHIN, _Ipswich_. Died at York. 50 1mo. 20 1850 WILLIAM CURTIS, _Alton_. 79 10mo. 13 1849 FRANCIS DARBY, _Sunniside_, _Coalbrookdale_. 67 3mo. 20 1850 SAMUEL DAVIS, _Aldershaw_, _Garsdale_, _Yorkshire_. 81 5mo. 30 1850 EDWIN DAWES, _Stoke Newington_. 38 10mo. 27 1849 ANNA MARIA DAY, _Saffron Walden_. 68 11mo. 8 1849 GULIELMA DEANE, _Reigate_. Daughter of James and Sarah Deane. 18 11mo. 4 1849 SARAH (_Sally_) DEAVES, _Eglantine_, _Cork_. Daughter of Reuben and Sarah Deaves. 22 10mo. 3 1849 The sudden death, by Cholera, of this dear young friend, caused at the time a very lively emotion among a wide circle of friends. She was the only and much beloved child of her bereaved parents;--naturally of a most amiable disposition, and of that lively temperament which gives a peculiar zest to life and all its passing enjoyments, she diffused around her somewhat of the buoyancy and sunshine which seemed ever to attend her own steps. Thus attractive and admired, and drinking largely of the cup of present pleasures, the thoughts of the future appear to have had but little place in her mind. In a state of excellent health, she had gone to Mountmelick to pass a few weeks with some near relatives, when she was seized with the disorder which, in a few hours, closed her life. Those hours were passed in much bodily suffering, but sorer still were the conflicts of her mind. The scales which had prevented her from seeing the real worth of life and the awful realities of the future, at once fell from her eyes, and she saw or rather felt with indescribable clearness, that the great truths which appertain to the welfare of the soul belong alike to the young and the healthy, to the sick and the dying. She saw that she had been living to herself and not to God, and this, whatever particulars she might lament, was the heavy burden of her awakened spirit. In the depths of contrition, and in the earnestness of faith, she was enabled to pray to her heavenly Father, and Saviour, to draw near and to have mercy upon her. Thus passed some hours never to be forgotten. The rapid progress of her disease hardly allowed time for much further mental exercise or expression. She sank into a state of quietude of body and of mind. And when all was over, the sorrowing parents were cond
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