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NHG-P.770.051
26 Oct 1770:23 (732)
New-York, October 8. On Tuesday last the Corporation for
the Relief of the Widows and Children of Clergymen in the
Communion of the Church of England in America, met in this
city: and on Wednesday a well adapted discourse, warmly
recommending the charity, was preached in Trinity Church, to
a very large and respectable audience, by the Rev. Doctor
Auchmuty, one of the Members of the Corporation, from 2 King
IV, 2. Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the
sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, thy servant my
husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant did fear
the Lord, and the creditor is come to take unto him my two
sons to be bondmen. And Elisha said unto her, What shall I
do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she
said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a
pot of oil.--Upon this occasion, several pieces of cathedral
music, with extracts from Handel's celebrated oratorio the
Messiah, were performed, and a very liberal contribution was
collected for the benefit of this benevolent institution,
which together with several benefactions since received from
persons who were prevented, by the badness of the weather,
from attending the church amounted, we hear, to upwards of
L. 200. . . [6 lines]
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