effectual blow of sin, and the friends of sin, are all the great
and valuable interests of mankind overthrown."

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Although our remarks are confined to America, we may mention that it has
been stated by some of our own countrymen who have visited London that
Sunday is generally as well observed there as in New England; yet we find
in the "Salem Gazette" of Nov. 23, 1785, that the attendance on public
worship in London was then rather small as compared with what might have
been seen in Boston at the same date. But that was before the days of the
"sensation" preachers, as they are called,--Spurgeon, Beecher, Talmage, and
men of that stamp, who now draw crowds of people, many of whom are not
always the most religious in the community, but who love excitement rather
than quiet contemplation.

LONDON,

_Sept._ 13. Sunday being a day of rest, 739 horses were yesterday
engaged on _parties of pleasure_.

In fifty churches, eastward of Temple-bar, the congregations
amounted, on an average, to _seven_ for each church in the
morning, and _five_ in the afternoon. This shews the state of the
Christian religion in the metropolis to be far better than could
be expected!

1785.

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