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''Mow tlien will you spend Oood Friday? If jour father, 

 mother, wife, or husband, son or daughter, died — if they died to 

 save your life, would you choose the anniversary of their death to 

 make merry and take a holiday? No, you would not." 



We omit the three concluding paragraphs. 



Another street hand-bill read as follows: 



" Ash Wednesday. 



"The first day of Lent; 



" The church's special call to repentance. 



" Blow the trumpet in Zion; sanctify a fast; call a solemn as- 

 sembly; — 



" Gather the j^eople; sanctify the congregation; assemble the 

 elders; gather the children and those that suck the breasts; let 

 the bridegroom go forth out of his chamber, and the bride out of 

 her closet. 



" Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the 

 porch and the altar, and let them say, spare thy people, Lord, 

 and give not thy heritage to reproach, that the heathen should 

 rule over them; wherefore should they say among the people, 

 where is their God?" — Joel ii, Chap. 15 — 17 verses. 



That these solemn occasions are to many quite attractive is 

 doubtless true. They diversify the every day life of the people, 

 although they are not, in the strict sense of the term, amuse- 

 ments. But they are a real recreation no doubt, for some, and 

 not a cross. The old lady exhibited something akin to this feel- 

 ing when she complained of the solitary situation of her dwelling 

 house; she did not like it, she said there was "nothing going on 

 there — no funerals, nor nothing." 



Could Black Beard and the other pirates who rendezvoused 

 and dominated in Nassau in the early historic times, walk its 

 streets to-day, they could not but be greatly impressed with the 



