Tokens of the Divine Displeasure: In the Late Conflagrations in New-York,& Other Judgements (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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It soon appeared that this judgment of the irreligion of the house was not uncharitable; for the law of the revised statutes, providing for the pay of chaplains was speedily rescinded, only nine members voting in the negative. Since that time, the voice of prayer has not been heard, in the new-york halls of legislation, and by a solemn legislative act, all reliance on the God of Israel, for his spirit, aid and blessing in conducting its civil affairs, has been cast off, and infidelity has obtained a for mal triumph. Thus is exhibited the painful spectacle, of a people greatly prospered in the bounty of Heaven - a people who have the oracles of the living God in nearly every family -a people among whom there are thousands of christian churches such a people proclaiming by their representatives, in the face of the nations, that they do not and will not look to the God of Heaven for his favour or protection as a com monwealth. What christian, nay, what pagan nation has ever done a deed like this Pass overto the isles ofchittim and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently and see if there be such a thing Hath a nation changed their gods, which yet are no gods? But my people have changed their glory, for that which doth not profit. Be astonished O ye heavens at this, and be ye horribly afraid, be ye very desolate saith the Lord. For my people have committed two great evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and have hew ed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. Jer. Rt, 10, 13.

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In the late conflagrations, which have desolated so large a portion of the city of New-York, a severe judgment of Heaven has been inflicted on that metropolis. That calamitous event is the latest in a series of tokens of the divine displeasure against this commonwealth. "Is there evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it?" Such afflictive dispensations are not "some chance that hath happened unto us." Affliction springeth not of the dust. "God grieveth not willingly, nor afflicteth the children of men." If amidst many and abundant demonstrations of Jehovah's goodness to this nation, there have been painful and heavy visitations, it is because the sins of the people have provoked the divine displeasure. It cannot be unprofitable to investigate the doings of transgressors, that the Christian observer may discover why the God of heaven "pleads a controversy" with the land. An humble attempt is made to do this in the following pages.

Soon after the assembling of the Legislature of the State of New-York, in January, 1832, a motion was made in the house of Asssemblv. to abolish the practice of opening the sessions with prayer to Almighty God. It had been the practice of both houses, soon after they were organized, to elect as Chaplains, all the regular Clergy of the city of Albany, who were pastors of congregations, to officiate in rotation, in commencing the daily business by morning prayer. For this service, all the chaplains together, received as a compensation what was equal to the pay of one member of each house, to be distributed equally among them. The whole sum annually appropriated for this purpose, amounted to about seven hundred and fifty dollars.

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