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Session-Clerk, Garnock

LONDON

DEAR SIR--You will recollect that, about twenty years ago, there was a

great sound throughout all the West that a playhouse in Glasgow had been

converted into a tabernacle of religion I res

to our ears in the parish of Garnock; and that Mr Craig, who had just

been ta'en on for an elder that fall, was for having a thanksgiving-day

on the account thereof, holding it to be a signal odly town of Glasgohich had beco, and the church therein lukewarm, like that of

Laodicea It was then said, as I well remember, that when the Tabernacle

was opened, there had not been seen, since the Kaiation as was there assereat proof that it's

the matter handled, and not the place, that maketh pure; so that when you

and the elders hear that I have been at the theatre of Drury Lane, in

London, you e play,

whether tragical or comical, or that I would so far demeanand wantonness of

ne'er-du-weel play-actors No, Mr Micklewha exercise of psalentlee Sreatest pains to instruct the exhibitioners,

they being, for the et into his hands, poor

uncultivated creatures, from Italy, France, and Germany, and other

atheistical and popish countries