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BEP(F.761.041
21 Sep 1761:32 (1360)
We hear from Newport, Rhode Island, that on Monday the 7th
instant, the comedy of The Provok'd Husband, or a Journey to
London, was acted at the theatre, by the Company of
Comedians in that town, for the benefit of the poor; when
the sum of one thousand and thirty pounds, old tenor, (about
fifty pounds Massachusetts lawful money) was raised for that
charitable purpose, and the money paid by Mr. Douglass, in
behalf of the Company, into the hands of Mr. George Gibbs,
who has undertaken to lay it out in corn, which he is to
store till the winter, and then deal it out to such of the
poor as shall be judged worthy to receive it.----
(This money is surely well apply'd as the drowth of the
summer, it is feared, will render the article of corn scarce
and dear the ensuing winter: And what will be the distress
of the poor on that account, is matter worthy of attention.-
--Railing against vice, luxury, and debauchery, is a cheap
and empty sacrifice;--but to relieve the distresses of our
fellow creatures, and to visit the widow and fatherless, is
the only true and undefiled religion; for without
benevolence and charity, every pretention to reformation
will be as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal)
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