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SCGCJ.772.126
29 Dec 1772:31 (370)
London, October 26. Friday about three in the afternoon a
prodigious concourse of genteel people were assembled on
Tower-Hill, where a temporary stage had been erected with
back seats, on which appeared eight divines, in the habit of
their profession, seven of whom had been educated for the
ministry, at the sole expence and charge of that amiable
lady the Countess of Huntington, who was present. After
psalm singing, the Rev. Mr. Percy, Chaplain to the Countess,
preached a most excellent sermon on the occasion, the
aforesaid gentlemen being to sail the next evening as
missionaries to America.--- How much better this application
of superfluous wealth in training up youth for the noble
purposes of virtue and religion, than the profusely
squandering it away at the Pantheon, Play-House, and Card-
Tables, the sole happiness and delight of our present
nobility!
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