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they get a roaring preacher, or duck one 

 another in a tub, or else dance and shout 

 for themselves, or blow the candles out and 

 howl in the dark, and call themselves 

 Brionites, or Baptists, or Ranters, or any- 

 thing else that comes into their heads, and 

 so we lose them. The Papists, wiser in 

 their generation, provide an outlet for such 

 passions, and thus keep their people in the 

 Church, and generally, in the end, bring 

 them back to their senses. Wesley and 

 Loyola were much the same class of minds. 

 We cast out the one from us, and produced 

 a powerful enemy; they found a place and 

 office for the other, and made of him as 

 powerful an auxiliary." 



"But do you give these people credit for 

 sincerity?" said the Captain. "I suspect 

 there are plenty of hypocrites among them." 



" Of course there are, as, no doubt, there 

 are hypocrites among Protestant Dissenters ; 

 but the majority are not hypocrites in either 

 case. A man who, with us, apostatises from 

 the Church, and becomes a conscientious 

 Dissenter, is merely an enthusiast working 

 off his excitement ; and that is what these 

 people are doing too, only that their children 



