A Sermon, Delivered January 19, 1812, at the Request of a Number of Young Gentlemen of the City of New-York, Who Had Assembled to Express Their Condolence with the Inhabitants of Richmond, On the Late Mournful Dispensation of Providence in That City
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Samuel Miller’s 1812 sermon (Lamentations 2) affirms God’s providence in the Richmond calamity, urges sympathy for the afflicted, and applies the judgment as a rebuke of theatrical amusements.