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bers who formerly absented themselves are now obliged to conform ; otherwise they would be informed against as belonging to the clubs of Freemasons . The clergy are straining every nerve to throw odium on the Con . stitutionalists and Freemasons , whom they class together ; and no crime is committed that is not laid to their charge . Two men were lately ordered for execution who had lain in prison for years on a charge of murder . There they might still have remained , or even have escaped justice altogether , though they had committed many murders , had it not been discovered that they had been guilty of some sacrilegious robberies . This , in the present state of church excitement , could not be pardoned , and they were doomed to expiate their crimes on the gallows . The place of execution is situated full
a mile and a half from the prison , and the criminals are conducted by a heavy guard of horse and foot police ; a number of friars , the company of Mercy ; the senate , and the judges who passed sentence . The criminals are clothed in a white vest , the halter round their necks , and a small crucifix in their hands with the image of our Saviour . As they pass many churches on their way , it is customary to say prayers at each , though the criminals are supported on each side by a friar who gives them spiritual advice as they proceed * On the passage of the two criminals mentioned before by the Magdalen church , a Royalist preacher got upon the steps and held forth for about twenty minutes , casting every reproach upon the Constitution and Freemasonry , saying , that the criminals present were specimens of their sect , nothing but robbery and murder being their aim . Thus were the poor wretches detained trailing through the streets more than three hours- Aa excommunication was recently fulminated from the Patriarchal chuTch against all Freemasons and those connected with them . The patriarch had had it in his possession some time , but was unwilling to publish it . Some partisan of Miguel , however , got to know of this , and soon found means to force its publication . ' *
We have , in a preceding number , intimated that the ** Revivals" that now engage the chief atteution of the Evangelicals in this country , were first set a going in America . We also expressed a hope that the shameful scenes which had been connected with them there , would not be reproduced here .
To detail these would occupy more space than we can spare for one subject . But as we find the orthodox periodicals lauding the manner in which " the work" has been effected in the United States , it may be well to exhibit a small specimen . The account we are about to give is expressed in the very words of the orthodox , and is indirectly conveyed in a convention , lately held in America , to consult on certain differences of opinion in respect to revivals of religion . In this convention , convoked by two leading
Revivalists , a number of votes was passed to serve as rules in the further prosecution of " those exhibitions of hypocrisy , profaneness , and folly , which lately occurred in the western part of New York . " * From these votes , the grave determinations of an ecclesiastical convention , we learn the following facts . In America , and in connexion with Revivals , it has been thought that God
works independently of human instrumentality , and without any reference to the adaptation of means to ends ; much human infirmity , indiscretion , and wickedness , have been mingled with the exertions made ; females have engaged in prayer in mixed assemblies ; measures have been introduced into congregations to promote and to conduct Revivals without the approbation of the ministers ; meetings for social worship have been held , in which all spoke according to their own inclination , without a moderator or
* Christian Examiner for July .
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334 The Watchman .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 334, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/38/
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