The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1820-10-24

/ Of wood, sud the space betwsenit ard the onhd
| ins IS filed with gravel
The ceremony and services at tie opening Oh
this Chapel are thus described:
orFNr. G THE Extraordinarily was the
dav appointed for opening The Royal Mission
Chapel About y o'clock We net the KING al
the art end oil the house. He was dressed III
white shirt, with a neat variegated mat around
his Ions, and iputa over all, coloured AND or,
namented with red ard yellow. he queen and
principle women were dressed il native clothing,
With an English irill around the neck The as
semblsd thousands were clean, and dressed III
their best We took our station according 10 ap-
poin,ment Brother platt n the west pulpit,
brother Darling ia The middle, AM brother Crook,
in the east The king sat in the east end Of the
house Bother Bsurne, from the middle pulpit,
commereed The service, by giving cut hymn the
third IN our IahItlan Col ection with very shfl,
penetrating voice, which was heard from one
end of the house 10 the other. The whole con-
gfegation stood up and sung Each pre- achsr then
rad Luke xiv. and prayed. The sermons CON
menced bout the same time Brother Darling
text was lsa wi. T. - will make them joyful
in my house Of prayer. &c. Brother Platrs text.
Luke xiv. 2s " And yet there - room; - aud
Brother Cooks, Exod. Xxx. "a. - Ia all places
where record my name, | will come unto the e
and will bless thee The sermons being end
ed much about the same time all the congrega alton
sung again, and the whole was concluded with
prayer In. scene was striking be You'd descrip-
ton 40 confusion eBsned from three speaker.
preaching all at once IN the same houee, they
being at such great dis zee hom each other.
We Suppose the number Of hearers to have been
between and 5000. livery thing exceeded
our most sanguiuc expectations. Many appre-
tensions were enter, aiued .ron bringing so many
parties together who formerly lad ever been a.
variance Poman had been informed that some
people would come With guns, and FIRE in upon
them from the windows, and he had taken the
pre- caution 10 place two principal persons on
whom he could depend, at each door and win
dow: but every thing vas very f--sooable and
orderly. and not the least disturbance occurred
Surely said some, there vii be TO wars toi
all the people have left their aims - home, auc
have brought the old and decfsp id, The l.ne an
the bhnd,' a thing that was never dose ia any
ol Their great meetings before. y c met tosethol
in tire afternoon 10 aztec Il The internal concerns
Of Tire Society; and departed II cur lodging
muoh eraiifed, aud prasirg God for what We hae
seen snd heard.
y tie o,,i.,snee Of tie d.,>ianaries, c'de %
law. La. been drawn up for he government o!
tie nation. These laws were pahllcly read and
.explsined, az general meeting. TO the chief
and people. and we're severally adopted by then
for Ihe future govcroment Of themselves and theii
oo.teri.y They were 3 il nnn's r. aud they r.
lal. t. he punishment 81 murder, theft, oH rreq
cltv. sabbath brcskng 8. AID also TO the resn
lation of marriages. courts, judge, &. Th.'
interesting scene," says the report, - may be BET
Ter COT. ciyed ,bno described; II see king gyins
laws 10 hi. people with resarlta the antto lay q
the word OF God aud he people reeeising'he ''n'
with such universal satisfaction, "as subject vesy
affecting 80 as Ii."
Among other Institutions, Missionary Society
has been c.ta5li,h,d . ahei,r, Of =, h,eh Pomarc
IS the President. a very iniefe.tints account j.
given of an nnnivtr r. meeting OF iliis Society,
aud their ptoeeoding.; ut the close Of which, the
king addressed the governors, oile'r- and mSnhrr.
ef The Society, rxhor:ing them 10 p.reyere in III.
delightful work y.ne, that due i';ice 'ril
be gwen them A, t. what s8eala be collected to'
the sex, yesr, whether oil, cotton, or ans othe.
ariiol,"
On the Sabbath, May 10th, Poaiare was taP'i,
zsl--the ,s;vices Oh that occasion were conducted
in a very solemn and Impressive manaer.
Later accounts dated Seplemh,r. 1919, state,
iba, Auxiliary Missionary saeieies were estab
listed in Oiaae,,c, Emeo, lluabeine, md ltaauea
IN accorni Of The formation Of oue auxiliary Is
given in detail, with the speeches # number 81
lie principal nen on tic occasion. II cannot be
.ead without exciting slfoas emotions in every
mind tina, feels due regard lor The highest ines-
e.is spiritus aud temporal, Of his fellow men auo
especially for these ISLANDERS, 50 lately Involved a.
debasement ard idolatry.-R. !. .fdveTiiser.
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