MEMOIB OF THE LATE MB. JOHN JUST, OF BURY. 



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return from an excursion in Devonshire, Mr. Just, whose 

 recovery was then known to be hopeless, took great interest 

 in the plants his friend had collected, and made various 

 inquiries about the geological formation of the county. Long 

 after he was forbidden to read, he rejoiced in being allowed to 

 use his pen, in extracts and transcription, and he employed 

 it as long as he could wield it, in registering philological facts 

 for the information of others. 



To prolong the narrative of his latest hours is at once 

 painful and unnecessary : suffice it to say, that after calmly 

 arranging his affairs, even to the naming of those friends 

 whom he wished to be invited to attend his remains to the 

 grave, he expired on the morning of Thursday, the 14th 

 October, 1852, in the 55th year of his age. 



From the preceding April he had been unable to discharge 

 any public duty, and during the greater part of this time he 

 was confined to his room. During his last illness he mani- 

 fested an exemplary patience and unrepining submission, 

 with earnest faith and trust in God. His conduct and con- 

 versation impressed his friends with the conviction of his 

 strong religious feeling, and serene and unaffected piety. He 

 ever recognised the union between science and religion, and 

 often expressed his surprise that any one who had pursued 

 truth in science, should fail to recognise its holy presence in 

 religion. He was warmly attached to the Established Church, 

 and a regular attendant on its ordinances, and he took much 

 interest in the welfare of the young men who formed his 

 class at St. John's Sunday School. His remains were interred 

 in St. Paul's Churchyard, Bury, on Wednesday the 20th 

 October ; — being borne to the grave by four of the teacherfi 

 of St. John's Sunday School. The funeral was attended 

 by many of his friends from Bury, Manchester, and other 

 places, and also by the Masters and Scholars of the Bury 

 Grammar School, who met the procession before it reached 

 the church, to show their respect for his memory. He has 

 left a widow and one daughter, now fifteen years of age. 



