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Editorial
April 24, 1799
The Providence Journal, And Town And Country Advertiser
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
What is this article about?
Editorial supports President John Adams' proclamation for a national day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer on April 25 to address threats from foreign nations and subversive principles undermining religious and moral values, urging communal observance for divine intervention and societal reformation.
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The Journal.
Providence
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24.
COMMUNICATION.
FAST TO-MORROW.
Our worthy and discerning President, placed by his office in the best possible situation to know the real state of his country, has in his proclamation for a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer, to be observed to-morrow, declared it as his opinion, that "the most precious interests of the people of the United States are still held in jeopardy by the hostile designs and insidious arts of a foreign nation, as well as by the dissemination among us of those principles, subversive of all religious, moral and social obligations, that have produced incalculable mischief and misery in other countries." What can have a more direct moral tendency to avert the judgments we are threatened with, than for this great and extensive community to arise, as one, to implore the interposing providence of God for their relief and deliverance? What method so suitable to awaken the attention of the people, to give a check to the growth and progress of licentious principle and practice, and to promote reformation among them, as their generally assembling at their respective places of public worship and instruction, to observe a season of religious solemnities unto God?
Providence
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24.
COMMUNICATION.
FAST TO-MORROW.
Our worthy and discerning President, placed by his office in the best possible situation to know the real state of his country, has in his proclamation for a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer, to be observed to-morrow, declared it as his opinion, that "the most precious interests of the people of the United States are still held in jeopardy by the hostile designs and insidious arts of a foreign nation, as well as by the dissemination among us of those principles, subversive of all religious, moral and social obligations, that have produced incalculable mischief and misery in other countries." What can have a more direct moral tendency to avert the judgments we are threatened with, than for this great and extensive community to arise, as one, to implore the interposing providence of God for their relief and deliverance? What method so suitable to awaken the attention of the people, to give a check to the growth and progress of licentious principle and practice, and to promote reformation among them, as their generally assembling at their respective places of public worship and instruction, to observe a season of religious solemnities unto God?
What sub-type of article is it?
Moral Or Religious
What keywords are associated?
National Fast
Humiliation And Prayer
Moral Reformation
Foreign Threats
Subversive Principles
What entities or persons were involved?
President
God
People Of The United States
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Support For Presidential Proclamation Of National Fast Day
Stance / Tone
Strongly Supportive And Exhortatory
Key Figures
President
God
People Of The United States
Key Arguments
President's View Of National Jeopardy From Foreign Threats And Subversive Principles
Communal Fasting And Prayer To Avert Divine Judgments
Awakens Public Attention To Moral Issues
Checks Licentious Principles And Promotes Reformation