Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1823-11-05

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BILE, and make all certain.
IS. Ifyou wish for advice, don't ask il
till you have made up your mind: thus
you will not be plagued with varying o.
pinions.
The following is from an eloquent article on
+ the affairs of Greece, in the last North A.
merican Review.
.Aaerico has done something for Greece
Our missionary societies have their en-
voys to the Grecian church, with sup
plies Of bibles and religious tracts for
their benighted focks. But in the pres
ent state of this unhappy people, this
is not the only succor they require
They are laying the foundations of civil
| freedom, without which, even the bles-
sings of the Gospel will be extended TO
them in vain; and while they are &C.
menting with their blood this costly ed
i6ce, they are in the condition of the re-
turning Jews, of whom "every one
with one of his hands wrought at work,
and with the other held "a weapon
We would respectfully suggest to the
enlarged and pious minds Of those, who
direct the great work of missionary
charity, that at this moment, the cause
Of the Grecian church, can in no way
be so effectually served, as by contribu-
tons directed to the field of the great
struggle. The war is emphatically a
war of the crescent against the cross
The venerable patriarch of the Greek
faith, torn from his altar and hanged at
the portals of his church, gave the sig
nal ofthe unholy outrages which we're
to waste his flock. And now wherever
the armies of the Sultan prevail, the vii
lage churches are levelled with the dust
or polluted with the ahomination OF
mahometism, and the religious houses
ofthe Greeks, the oldest abodes of chris
tianity in the world, are wasted with
fire, and the sacred volume thrown Out
to be trampled under foot by harbarians
At this crisis the messenger Of the Cos
| pei fraternity should come in other guise
than the distributor of the word and
could the broad and deep current of re.
ligious bounty be turned into channel
10 reach the seat of the principal dis.
tress, it is not going too far to say, that il
might be the means of giving another
independent country to the church Of
Christ; and do more to effect the
Punishment Of the crescent to the des
erts of Tartary, than all that has been
achieved by the counsels of christendom
The same considerations call upon
our wealthy citizens to extend their aiC
to the citizens of a country possessed Of
more than one bond of community with
ours, The Common Council of Londor
have voted 1000 pounds for the relief
of the sufferers in Greece. Let Boston
appropriate ten thousand dollars for the
same object; New York, and Phila
del phia, and Baltimore, and the cities Of
the South in proportion to their means.
will heartily unite in the cause; and a
sum of money may be transmitted to
Greece, either directly or through the
English committee, which will teach
those who are now toiling and bleeding
for freedom, that we prize the blessing
too highly,notto aid them in attaining it.
We have seen on the wharves of Bos-
ton, the household utensils of brass and
copper, gathered up from the desolate
hearths of the butchered Sciotes, bought
as old copper in Smyrna, and as such
sent to this country.* Does not this
bring home to our minds picture OF
distress to awaken our deepest sym
pathy? To see reduced to old copper
in our stalls, the furniture of the fire.
sides of men and christians, who have
themselves wearied the Turkish scme-
tar in their slaughter and whose wives
and daughters have been sold into an
accursed slavery, TO the number of thir-
ty thousand ?? We know not whether
the sight of these humble wrecks of
household existence be romantic enough
for the sentimentalist but we ask our
readers by an effort of imagination, to
make the case their own; to fancy an
overwhelming force of barbarians, speak
ing another language, following a
strange faith, let loose upon one of our
largest cities, (for Scio, now desert,
had population of 100000 to put its
men TO the sword, and sell its matrons
and virgins in the open market, into the
most revolving and hopeless slavery
We would ask our readers but 10 con-
ceive of fate like this, as in reserve
for one of the cities of our own country,
and then say what claim the Greeks
have on our sympathy.
In the few remarks, which we have
taken the liberty to make on this occa-