| Show first prayer in congress in Thatch thatcher Ws s military journal under date of december 1777 is found a note containing the he identical first prayer in congress made by cherev the rev jacob duche a gentleman of great eloquence here it is an historical curiosity 0 lord our heavenly father high and mighty king of kings and lord of lords who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers on earth and reig nest with power supreme and uncontrolled over all the kingdoms empires ires and governments look down in mercy we beseech beseech thee on these american states who have fled to thee from the rod of the oppressor and thrown themselves on thy gracious protection desiring to be henceforth depend ent nt only on thee to thee they have appealed for or the righteousness of their cause to thee do they now look up for that countenance and support which thou alone canet ave take them hem therefore heavenly father under thy nurturing care give them wisdom in counsel and valor in the field defeat the malicious designs of our cruel adversaries convince them of the unrighteousness of their cause and if they hey still persist in their sanguinary purposes 0 let the voice of thine unerring unerring justice sounding in their hearts constrain them to drop the weapons of war from their unnerved hands lands in the day of bamel bawel be thou present 0 god of wisdom and direct the councils of his this honorable assembly enable them to settle things on the best and surest foundation hat that the scene of blood may be speed speedily closed that hat order harmony and peace may be e effect bally dually restored and truth and justice religion and piety prevail and flourish among thy people p le preserve the health of their bodies and th he vigor of their minds shower down on them and the millions they here represent such temporal em blessings as thou seest expedient for them in inthis this world and crown them with everlasting glory in the world to come all this we abi ast ask in the name and through the merits of jesus christ thy son our savior amen DICKENS description or OF THE GREAT FIRE IN ix to LONDON dondon don OF or 1666 dickens give the following b description of the great london fire which occurred upon sf ali windy night september 3 1666 logg it broke out at a bakers shop near london bridge on the spot on which the monument now stands as a remembrance of those ra raging ging fl flames ame s it spread and spread and burnt and burnt for three days the nights were vere lighter 0 than the days in the day time there was wa s an immense cloud of smoke and in the night time there was a great tower of fire mounting up into the sky which lighted the whole country t landscape for ten miles round howers showers of hot ashes rose into the air and fell on distant places flying sparks carried the conflagration to great distances and kindled it in twenty new spots at a time church steeples fell down with tremendous crashes houses crumbled into cinders by the hundred and the thousand the summer had bad been intensely hot and dry the streets were very narrow and the houses mostly built of woo wood dand and plaster nothing could stop the tremendous fire but the wa want t of houses to burn nor did it stop until the whole ivay way from the tower to temple ilar bar was a desert composed of the ashes of thirteen thousand houses and eighty nine churches this was a terrible visitation at the time and occasioned great loss lois and dufferin ferins suf derin ferin z to the two hu hundred adred thousand burnt ou out t people who were obliged to lie ile in the fields under the open n night ig lit sky or in hastily made huts of mud and straw tra I 1 while the lanes and roads were rendered impassible by carts which had been I 1 broken broken I 1 down as they tried to save their goods but the fire was a great blessing 0 to the city afterward for it arose from its rn ruins ins very much h improved built more rem reg regularly mul oui atly more cleanly arid and carefully and therefore much more healthily an english clergyman at halloway HaI hal Ioway loway england has been detected in preaching the sermons of rev dr bushnell of hart Hatt hartford ford from the published volumes in this country iest at the best remedy for rheumatism halls hails sarsaparilla yellow dock and iodide of 8 am ani |
