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ot-Lbavnsca-4r.I**ux-o»-Tieca,:ily*»Mr Raidul—Oberviof in anumber of your paper, Dean Swift's charity Sermon, with which I wan much plena ct!9 by inserting Che following on the name subject* you will oblige at leant one of your readers.A \ the time when Mr. Lacy wan pan-tor of the liaptist Church* at Portsea, some of the brethren, chiefly thou* of th« dockyard, conataiRly ushered in the the jr.*oHhe l.lt;ords day, at 6 o’clock, (l»y mooting in the vortry for social prayer, (exboitation, and conference, oy.somc por cnt ,tom of scripture, alternately. At one oi Jt those conference mornings, the text Jed to charity ; all spoke in theiriurn, if they ft* tl»lt;lt;mc„ when it rested with Charles Jlcu-L,ut jmuj.ii, who was u uainrmau. His com-“ '••.locifct on the text was an foil wg : I shall *c~ say nothing more tlmn this ; we liavn bw 11 t hiking of charity ; it would be good to | ut it in exercise; licre is our brother nu Ephraim Forth, goes to clock every morn-J*» ing this cold weather, uitjjc.ul a great uc coat — and lu*rn is my shilling towards ost buying liiui one. The. good men took tlio •h* hint, and Ephraim was enabled to pur-,w chiue-opc thn next day, and went to Dock iuf ..warmed if in t quite tilled.i Q 3*ry—*Cm the laity .cxpound Scrijd-ud mu }ir ,__ •Tliret Methodist chapels have beenCOdooflofiminlt;MEiuaatT1at 11 SUIeriOil]neiTfcthuDfOBCofJcarDCSirm
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Northern Star and Farmers and Mechanics Advocate
Warren, Rhode Island, US
Sat, Feb 12, 1831
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