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are aided and assisted by a priest. I do not suppose that the 

 Quakers will admit me into their Society ; but, in this free country 

 I can form a new society, if I choose, and, if I do, it certainly shall 

 be a Society having a Chairman in place of a Parson, and the 

 assemblage shall discuss the subject of their meeting themselves- 

 Why should there not be as much knowledge and wisdom and 

 common sense, in the heads of a whole congregation, as in the 

 head of a Parson ? Ah, but then there are the profits arising 

 from the trade ! Some of this holy Order in England receive 

 upwards of 40,000 dollars per annum for preaching probably not 

 more than five or six sermons during the whole year. Well may 

 the Cossack Priests represent Old England as the bulwark of 

 religion ! This is the sort of religion they so much dreaded the 

 loss of during the French Revolution ; and this is the sort of 

 religion they so zealously expected to establish in America, when 

 they^received the glad tidings of the restoration of the Bourbons 

 and _the Pope. 



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