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NM.772.050
9 Nov 1772:43 (740)
London. Extract of a letter from Yarmouth, July 22. Sunday
last, while Dr. Smyth was delivering a lecture on the
catechism to a crowded audience, the front of the east
gallery suddenly gave way, which occasioned a most terrible
noise, accompanied with a cloud of dust, insomuch that the
distant part of the congregation thought a thunderbolt had
struck the gallery, and the dust appeared like smoke. The
confusion created on this account is easier imagined, than
described. Every person forsook the church and fled. The
doctor in vain entreated them to keep their places. He
ordered the organ to play out, which had the desired affect.
The congregation, by degrees were brought back into the
church. An anthem was sung by the charity children, and the
doctor dismissed his audience with great composure, and with
a blessing. . . .
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