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SCG-C.743.024
5 Sep 1743:41, 42 (493)
Extract of a letter from London, dated May 27, 1743. . . [1
column on Whitefield's activities in Scotland and England]
Mr. Whitefield has been preaching this Holy Day Week in
Moorfields, a very large spot of ground, allotted by the
city purely for the diversion of its youth. -- How innocent
soever the design of the city herein might be, it has been
horribly abused, and was become the receptacle of thieves,
whores, pick pockets, idle and abandon'd wretches of both
sexes: And what greatly contributed to the wickedness of
the place was a number of booths erected in the fields, for
shewing of interludes, farces, &c. These things greatly
inflamed the holy zeal of good Mr. Whitefield against those
nurseries for hell, and caused him last year to preach at
those times in the very place, where Satan's seat was, with
happy fruit and success on the souls of many: And this year
it has pleased God to put it into the hearts of the
magistrates to put a stop to those enormities, by
prohibiting any such shews; and tho' the booths were
erected, yet not one of them was acted in. . .
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