Saturday, June 19, 2010

Don't profane the day

Sat 19 Jun 1736: Mr. Oglethorpe returned from the south, and gave orders on Sunday the 20th that none should profane the day (as was usual before) by fishing or fowling upon it. In the afternoon sermon I summed up what I had seen or heard at Frederica inconsistent with Christianity, and consequently with the prosperity of the place. The event was as it ought: some of the hearers were profited, and the rest deeply offended.
This day, at half an hour past ten, God heard the prayer of his servant, and Mr. Lascelles, according to his desire, was ‘dissolved that he might be with Christ’.