“Communication”
Date
2-10-1812
Newspaper
Charleston Courier
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 2
Newspaper Location
Charleston, South Carolina
Serial Number
329
Abstract
Notice from the editor of the Charleston Courier that calls for a day of prayer due to the earthquakes.
Transcript
COMMUNICATION. AT this period of awful visitation when the trembling Earth seems ready to sink beneath our feet, I trust it will not be deemed premature in one of your fellow citizens to express a hope that the Reverend Clergy of our City will, on the ensuing Sabbath, in an especial manner, call upon their respective Congregations to join with them in humble supplications to ALMIGHTY GOD, "who looketh on the Earth and it trembleth," that "he will remember mercy" and "give us help from trouble." Let us apply to him, "and trust in him and in the shadow of his wings make our refuge until these calamities be overpast." Perhaps we should do no more than our duty; if a day was set apart, by municipal authority, as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer, to implore the ALMIGHTY to avert the evils with which we are so evidently threatened.
Recommended Citation
"“Communication”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 322.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/322
