Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-06-03


HIS form and pressure"
In all heather as well as civilized coun-
tries, there has been days set apart Tor the
purpose OF worshipping supreme power.
who, they believe. will be grati6ed and
pleased with their alteration. 10 ancient
Rome and Greece, the feasts of their gods
and goddesses were hailed with acclama.
lions by the multitude. and observed with
the most religious obedience. Even bow,
we behold in India. the deluded victims OF
superstition, sacrificing their lives on these
days, in hopes Of gaining reward in
eternity. No idle scoffer-no unconcerD-
ed spectator. visits the temples of their
idols; every knee is bended-every heart
is humbled What contrast between
these poor heather and Christians! 1t
should cause Us 10 look around and see If
we have not yet some virtues TO copy from
them-some vices TO divest ourselves Of
which even a savage would be asha med TO
have
Our holy Sabbath is actually, with some,
treated as day of recreation-a day Of
pleasure. II will astonish candid and
rejecting person 10 witness the perfect in
difference which is paid 10 that blessed
day. Market is open till o'clock, and
every species of traffic is transacted which
is done on ordinary days. What makes
he picture still more distressing, is, that
the very scum and dregs of society then
cone out, as il they had aroused from a
torpor Negroes are paradiDg the streets,
shocking the ears with their horrid oa'bs &
Impressions: the money that they get is
spent in procuring ardent spirits, and ma
ny are lettering about The market place in
a state of brutal in,oxication; the office OF
our worthy Mayor is crowded almost eve
~ Sunday with these Migrants. for some
msdem.anor Of which they have been
guilty. Shame that these things should be,
.And overcome us like cloud,
Without our special wonder"
Shame, that no one in,erposes 10 erase this
blot from our escutcheon.
But this Sunday market is not the only
thing of which complain, for
81 claim as large charter as the wind,
10 blow on whom please"
IT'S 10 the fashionable part of the com.
munity would now particularly address
myself. Instead OF spending your Sabbath
mornings in a way which becomes you,
you are preparing and fixing your dresses,
which to the eyes OF common sense are a.
bominable. Perhaps some may 60 to Sun
day school, for the purpose Of instruc'ing
the poor. (5ut here. too. di'eord may arise
but most generally you remain housed
till bells ring, when your grand entrance
is made, not as il you were going into the
house of God-into the house OF prayer
but il as you were entering place where
you expected nought else but to see and
be SEEM While you are there what IS
your behaviour? (ior will tell you can.
didly } Do you act as il you knew that
the eye Of an all searching God was upon
you? Do you &C, as il you shared in any OF
the supplicstious which were put up 10 the
throne of grace for you? No-your very
countenances express directly the contra
~: Some OF you are talking, others laugh.
! ing, others fixing some part OF their attire,
.. and, not uncommonly. some Of you are a.
I sleep. When you come on, Of church, we
see no marks of any good impressions made
on you by The solemn truths you have just
| heard: nothing but The loud laugh and the
stupid gaze A reht ction upon these facts,
will, perhaps, cause some change of con.
duet IN tai. fashisasbies,