The Duty of a Christian People under Divine Visitations, by Newton Smart 49126 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/4/9/1/2/49126 ] [Files: 49126-0.txt; 49126-h.htm] For those wishing to know: the book was occasioned by the outbreak of Cholera at various seaports in England, around 1832. The Rev. Smart thought this was God's punishment against a sinful people and in the book lists the multiple failings of the English and demands repentance and reform. He's also very worried about the future of the Church of England which had started to come under attack from "free thinkers" and, he felt, scientists. It's an alternate response to the issues of the times to that provided by the Tractarian movement, which started at more or less the same time. All the best, David, Sunny England
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David Price