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In the evening the Wesleyan chapel was crowded to overflowing.
The aisles and communion place were full.
On all festivals and holidays, which occur on the Sabbath, the churches and chapels are more thronged than on any other Lord's day. It is hardly necessary to state that there was no instance of a dance or drunken riot, nor wild shouts of mirth during the day.
The Christmas, instead of breaking in upon the repose of the Sabbath, seemed only to enhance the usual solemnity of the day. The holidays continued until the next Wednesday morning, and the same order prevailed to the close of them.
On Monday there were religious services in most of the churches and chapels, where sabbath-school addresses, discourses on the relative duties of husband and wife, and on kindred subjects, were delivered. An intelligent gentleman informed us that the negroes, while slaves, used to spend during the Christmas holidays, the extra money which they got during the year.
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