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American travel diary of an unknown Englishman, 1864
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I never dined under more peculiar circumstances. After dinner every one was seated & addresses were given by several people beginning on I stand at the door & knock, the preachers got rather excited but their stile of delivery I thought good & the address were simple but bearing in them few if any practical comments on holy living although there plenty of exhortations about "giving themselves up to the Lord". The tall trees are round giving a shade that the midday sun could not pierce through made it a capital preaching ground & scene looked most picturesque, Many more seemed to come to look on than to take
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I never dined under more peculiar circumstances. After dinner every one was seated & addresses were given by several people beginning on I stand at the door & knock, the preachers got rather excited but their stile of delivery I thought good & the address were simple but bearing in them few if any practical comments on holy living although there plenty of exhortations about "giving themselves up to the Lord". The tall trees are round giving a shade that the midday sun could not pierce through made it a capital preaching ground & scene looked most picturesque, Many more seemed to come to look on than to take
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