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BNL.740.011
28 Mar-3 Apr 1740:11,12 (1840 [=1880])
South-Carolina, Charlestown, December 22. 1739.
Monstrum Horrendum!
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and
shew my people their transgressions. Isaiah.
When I first saw the publick advertisement of a ball, and
consider'd the present face and situation of things, it
touch'd all the springs of uneasiness, and made me discharge
my soul in a most solemn interjection: Good God, said I
what can the advertiser mean! To make stoicks and epicures
of us? Does he imagine us lost to all sense of misery, and
reverence of a diety!. . . [1 line] Or if we are call'd upon
to praise God for our distinguishing deliverance, can it
only be done in the dance! Must it be done in the theatre!
before the church? But I reliev'd myself a little with
this: Sure, said I, the clergy at least, will be alarm'd at
the impiety, and the artillery of heaven must play from
every pulpit in the town. . .
. . . [signed] Laicus.
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