Reverend Chisholm

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    The Reverend Samuel Peters ... exaggerated the Blue Laws, but they did include “Capital Lawes” providing a death penalty for any child over sixteen who was found guilty of cursing or striking his natural parents; a death penalty for an incorrigible son; a law forbidding smoking except in a room in a private house; another law declaring smoking illegal except on a journey five miles away from home,...
    —Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Great is your faithfulness, O God, Creator,
    with you no shadow of turning we see.
    You do not change, your compassions they fail not;
    all of your goodness forever will be.
    —Thomas O. Chisholm (1866–1960)