Sermons

county of Wexford, with whom he lived in uninterrupted harmony and happiness: his domestic vir tues exemplified his public precepts; and his whole conduct was the more conspicuous for integrity, kindness, and generosity, as those qualities have been supposed incompatible with a monastic education.

But the period rapidly approached when the afflicted were to deplore their ablest advocate; and his unsparing exertions, in behalf of helpless innocence and want, were to receive their ultimate reward. Exhausted by the fatigues of his mission, this excellent man died, with signal piety and resignation, at his house at Mount-Pleasant, near Dublin, on 27th of October, 1805. His funeral was attended to his own church of St. Nicholas-Without, by the children of all the parish schools in Dublin, and his pall was borne by six gentlemen of the first distinction.

His widow was left with two sons and two daughters, with so slender a provision that they must have pined in obscurity and indigence, had not His Majesty been graciously pleased to grant her a pension of 3001. a year for her life, with the reversion to her daughters. But for the sons of him who fell a victim to his zeal in the cause of universal benevolence, no provision whatever has hitherto been made.

May these sermons, which are printed for their benefit, enable their surviving parent to give them such an education, as becomes the memory of their revered father; to whom the fatherless and the widow for so many years owed their comforts, and, almost, their existence!