“City Council...”
Date
2-14-1812
Newspaper
Charleston Courier
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 2
Newspaper Location
Charleston, South Carolina
Serial Number
344
Abstract
Plea by the clergymen of Charleston that a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer be held on Friday February 21, 1812 to plea for divine intervention to stop the “awful visitations” of earthquakes.
Transcript
CITY COUNCIL, 13th Dec. 1812. The Reverend Clergy of the different denominations, in this City, at a meeting held by them, on Tuesday last, having requested Council to appoint a day to be observed as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer: It is, therefore, Resolved, that FRIDAY, the 21st instant, be set apart for that purpose, and that the Citizens be requested to abstain from all secular employments on that day, and join in their respective places of public worship, in humbling themselves before the throne of the Most High, imploring that he will avert from this land the evils which threaten it, from the frequent awful visitations, which we have of late experienced. Ordered, That the above resolution be published in the different papers of this city. Extract from the Minutes, G. M. BOUNETHEAU, Clerk of Council.
Recommended Citation
"“City Council...”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium. 337.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/337
