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A LAY COMMENTATOR.A number of Christian brethren, chiefly belonging to the dock-yard, Portsmouth, always ushered in the morning of the Lord** day, at 6 o'clock, by meeting in the vestry for social prayer, exhortation and conference. on some portion of scripture, alternately.*—At one of these conference meetings, the text led to charity: all spoke in their turn, if they chost, when it rested with Charles Benjamin who was a wat*rman, and lived between Portsmouth and Gosport, liis comment on the text was as follows ;1 shall say nothing more than this—we have been talking of charitv ; it would bey vgood to put it in exercise. Here is our brother Ephaim Forth, goes to dock every morning this cold weather, without a great coat, and litre is my shilling towards buying him one.” 'The good men took the hiut. and Ephraim was enabled to purchase this necessary next day, and went to dock u warmed, if not quite filled.”({itery—Can the laity expound scripture ?* Thi* iauiabk ctitom u itil coD.iaucd there inu! hu bten, without i*tenaa«ua, Ur oiiic tfcui qIi *cc 7.
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Augusta Herald
Augusta, Georgia, US
Thu, Oct 26, 1815
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