A SCHOOL OF

RELIGION, MANNERS AND MORALS!

TWO DISCOURSES

DELIVERED

ON THE OPENING OF THE NEW THEATRE

IN CHARLESTON.

BY THE

REV. THOHAS SMYTH,

Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church.

PUBLISHED WITHOUT REQUEST.

SECOND EDITION.

CHARLESTON, S. C.:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY JENKINS & HUSSEY,

No. 36 Broad-street,

AND TO BE HAD AT THE VARIOUS BOOK-STORES.

1838.

Entered, According to Act of Congress, in the year 1838, by JENKINS &

HUSSEY, in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the District of South Carolina.

THE THEATRE!

Whatever of Religion, Manners, or of Morals is here exhibited, I dedicate to you. "Yes, in good sooth, they are of a great kindred: they are well allied." SHAKESPEARE.

"Assume these virtues, though you have them not.
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat;

Of habits, devil, is angel yet in this;

That to the use of actions fair and good,

He likewise gives a frock, or livery,

That aptly covers blackest vice."

SHAKESPEARE.

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