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American travel diary of an unknown Englishman, 1864

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July 24 Sunday went to a Unitarian church in the morning, this form of the congregationalist church is perhaps the most popular in Boston, there were very few people in church, there is a form of prayer but no regular order of reading the scriptures by which means all passages that are at variance with their theories may be left out at the option of the minister: the congregation hardly joined at all in the responses. I enquired of a gentleman I saw in the evening whether there was service to be held in the church opposite I afterwards had an interesting conversation with him, He expressed his surprise at being
 
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