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their brotherhood to all Christ's brethren. Greatly as he valued 

 the privilege of preaching, he would never purchase it by 

 subscribing to other men's confessions of faith. He was free- 

 born : as a free man he entered on his ministry : and as the 

 freed servant of Christ he is born into " the glorious liberty of 

 the sons of God." 



Funeral sermons were preached by his successors at Stand 

 and at Warrington.* The Unitarian papers paid a tribute 

 to his memory. In " The Unitarian Herald/' his friend Mr. 

 R. D. Darbishire wrote In Memoriam : " The news of [his] 

 death has brought more than common sorrow to the already 

 too few, now living, who were privileged to share his closer 

 intimacy during his years of activity in this district, and happy 

 enough to feel the full influence of his most Christian character. 

 It is with no passing sadness that we lay aside the clinging 

 hope that we might yet again enjoy among us the light of his 

 quick conscience, his tender piety, the example of his unhesi- 

 tating zeal, his ceaseless labour, the blessed fellowship of his 

 pure and loving spirit. . . . His highly trained and ready 

 intellect, his delicate and varied accomplishment, his sweet 

 dignity, his graceful familiarity with many men of large, culture, 

 with many noble women, his self-denial without asceticism, his 

 virtue without austerity, seemed to complete a character of the 

 purest manliness. . . . 



* Ah, in these ears, till hearing dies, 

 One set slow bell will seem to toll 

 The passing of the sweetest soul 

 That ever looked with human eyes. ' " 



Notices in many other papers showed that he was not for- 

 gotten in his native land ; but the fullest testimonies to him 

 appeared in "The Warrington Guardian," from the pens of 



* "On June 3 the Rev. W. C. Squier preached a sermon in his 

 memory at the Stand Chapel, from Daniel xii. 3 — ' And they that be wise 

 shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to 

 righteousness as the stars for ever and ever ; ' and at Cairo Street, Warring- 

 ton, the Rev. H. W. Perris took as his text the words — 'What went ye out 

 to see ? A reed shaken by the wind ? A man clothed in soft raiment ? A 

 prophet ? yea ! ' Many of Dr. P. P. Carpenter's friends and co-workers 

 in the days long gone by joined the ordinary congregation." 



