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BPB.772.028
28 Sep 1772:22 (788)
Yarmouth, July 22. Sunday last a most fatal accident had
night happened in our church.---While Dr. Smyth was
delivering a lecture on the catechism to a crowded audience,
the front of the east gallery suddenly gave way, which
occasioned a most terrible noise, accompanied with a cloud
of dust, insomuch that the distant part of the congregation
thought a thunder bolt had struck the gallery, and the dust
appeared like smoke. The confusion created on this occasion
is easier imagined than described. The doctor in vain
intreated them to keep their places. He ordered the organ
to play out, which had the desired effect. The congregation
by degrees were brought back into the church. An anthem was
sung by the Christian children, and doctor dismissed his
audience with great composure and with a blessing.
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