Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1827-04-07

WoN2ERFUL! PRoDIGIoUs!-A paper pub
lished in the city of Ncw-York, and devoted to
the promotion of theological affairs, gives dole
ful account Of the death of a young lady, who
having mingled in the pleasures Of the ballroom,
repaired 10 well to drink, into which she fell,
and in consequence of laying some twenty-five
minutes beneath the waters, was drowned. Now
in this, there was nothing remarkable, and
undertake tn say, that, IF tho young lady had new
er been born, If the well had never been dug, if
she had not fallen into it, and if it had not
contained water, she would not have been
drowned! And we also so irreligious as to be-
eve, that if any other person, than the unfortu-
nate one spoken of, had fallen into the well, after
visiting a church, she or he, would, if not timely
withdrawn, have been sufocated!-Thesc facts,
we are silly enough to believe, and we are wicked
enough, to venture the assertion, that saint will
drown as quick as a sinner if cast into the sea ,
or into well!
The Theological publication, in which VIC saw
the account Of the melancholy accident, attributes
its occurrence to the sinfulncss of the victm and
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the wickedness of an unlucky ball room, in which
the young lady had been dancing, and closes the
account of the sad affair, by saying that "she
danced herself out of this world, and danced into
hell!' OF the young lady, we of course know
nothing further, than what is furnished by the
writer in the theological publication in question
but from that learn, that in company with her
juvenile companions, she had partaken Of the
pleasures Of the ball room and after having be-
come somewhat fatigued and thirsty, she repaired
to well to drink, when she slipped, plunged
down the reservoir, and was drowned.
We do not pretend to any knowledge, relative
to the affairs Of that world Of spirits to which we
| are all fastening, nor are we capable of Judging
of the designs of that mcrcfu and just God, the
evidences of whose wisdom, are to be seen in al
the wonders of nature; but our education, has
taught us not to believe, that the eternal King o
Kings, will doom an unfortunate mortal, to the
vengeance of his ire, because she may have beer
guilty of indulging in the innocent amusement Of
dancing; and to suppose the Almighty to be such
an unjust Being as the theological paper would
make him, would, to our mind, be gross and un.
pardonable profanity.
That such publications, as the one to which We
alude, should go before the world is disgra cefu
to the country, and they ought not to be counte
nanced by the generous, just and humane; and tn,
unprncipled wretches who give them circulation
deserve to be branded with the contempt of the
world
In this instance, the feelings Of the friends of
luckless female, have been narrowed up, an,
they have been told that she upon whom the,
they probably fondly hung, went to unknown
worlds, and was consigned to the fury of Dew
lis and damned spirits" and doomed to endur,
the eternal tortures of that Hell, which is be
you'd us, because she was so very sinful, and ha,
been guilty Of Dancing! Such an outrage upor
deccncy, and all the better principles of justic,
and morality should not be tolerated, and tn,
pcrpetrator of it, merits punishment unknown
10 otu lsws.