A sermon, preached at the Church in Brattle Square, Boston, on the Lord's day after the decease of John Warren, M.D. Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the University at Cambridge, president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, corr. member of the Lond. Medical Society &c. &c. &c. who died IV. April, MDCCCXV. aged LXII.

  • McKean, Joseph, 1776-1818.
Date:
1815
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Credit: A sermon, preached at the Church in Brattle Square, Boston, on the Lord's day after the decease of John Warren, M.D. Hersey Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the University at Cambridge, president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, corr. member of the Lond. Medical Society &c. &c. &c. who died IV. April, MDCCCXV. aged LXII. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    less ardently devoted to what he deemed the cause of truth, and order, and freedom ; he never shrunk from responsibility. He often yielded to the wishes of those, whom he considered to be entitled to his confidence, and consented to moderate in the delib- erations of their assemblies. As a friend, he was peculiarly formed for all which is substantial and ardent in that happy rela- tion. If no other testimonial of this were possess- ed, but the cordial attachment cherished for him, by one,* who was intimately connected with him, for many pleasant years, and who not long preced- ed him, as we trust, to the abodes of purer and more permanent friendships; one, whose estimate of character, though always candid, was most dis- criminative, and whose judgment, in these as in most respects, was with me, commonly decisive ; his warm commendation and affection, would be satisfactory. But numbers of the most worthy, unitedly give evidence that the praise is justly his, a friend greatly beloved. There are other and still more precious ties, in which every good man is bound, to a greater or less extent. His included the most sacred and tender, which this life can know ; and in no view, could he be placed more favourably, than in the inter- course of family and kindred, for one, whose wish was to exhibit a fair, I was almost about to say, a faultless image. But the sorrows of the most im- • Rev. John Eliot, D. D.