Show RELIGION IN SEVENTY SIX AND tilen TJIEN ABOUT some BOMB of the papers have havo not felt satisfied that the orators at the lexington and concord centennial omitted to make much mufeh of or eyen even to eulogizing ly notice the religious element in the american amerlean Ro revolution ima that element being in tho the opInIon of the more religious of those papers the real backbone of the great contest that there w was a s considerable backbone and backbone of a gritty rugged and very spiny kind inthe luthe religion 0 of that period will be readily concluded from the foll following ow published in the new now york mcelry weekly mer Her mercery mercury cury cuty in 1768 at the time of the excitement I 1 upon the passage of tho the stamp act ack 7 halifax S N 8 march 27 we hear bear that a person in a neighboring bring government lately refusing to pay a debt for which he was attached bec because atme the tho writ was not stamped the populace im immediately upon hearing thereof assembled and having the fellow before them passed the three following votes and resolve viz vate 1 that this mands man is not a christian fote vote 2 that he ought tp be of some religion therefore thirdly vod voted that Ahat he be a je jew w iv whereupon liere ilene upon 1 that he be circumcised y says bays an exchange this reso resola lu i tion so terrified the poor creat creature urb teat that inathe be begged for forgiveness tol for his imprudence and promised to behave better tor jor for orthe the future he was then permitted to make a confession of his faith falth cupon ahl which eh the sentence gentene was remitted and he dismissed |