Surely this is a most abominable profanation of all that is serious, &c. And where pray is the absurdity of this?

"In Horeb, the deity revealed himself to Moses, as the eternal I am, the self-existent one; and, after the first discouraging interview of his messengers with Pharaoh, he renewed his promise to them, by the awful name, jehovaha name till then unknown, and one which the Jews always held it a fearful profanation to pronounce.

In 1370, the people of Brussels were startled in consequence of the statements of a Jewess, who accused her co-religionists of having made her carry a pyx full of stolen hosts to the Jews of Cologne, for the purpose of submitting them to the most horrible profanations.

"Oh, execrable profanation!"

concerning the "misery of the Negroes, great waste of them," &c. which informs us not only of a most scandalous profanation of the Lord's day, but also of another abomination, which must be infinitely more heinous in the sight of God, viz.

vile profanation of oaths!

And what is still more to be lamented, as a consequence growing out of the present regulation, is that aside from the tumult necessarily attendant on the sailing of these vessels on the Lord's day, it furnishes an occasion for the needless profanation of the day by thousands who assemble as spectators on our wharves to witness their departure.

The voice, human speech, that sacred organ, whose whole worth lies in sincerity, has in all ages been the victim of odious profanations.

For this grace which we despise is the price of the blood of Jesus Christ, and the sin that we commit is an actual profanation of this very blood.

Christianity does not need them, and they are spared a daily profanation in the name of religion.