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American travel diary of an unknown Englishman, 1864
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part in the proceedings but they did not interrupt those who did although these to people who did not acknowledge religion would be most laughable - after this a ring was formed of the moved & then a man kept shouting out at the top of his voice in a shrill tone "Come to Jesus" & then supposing any one made a kind of motion (& he watched them most narrowly) he would say "come now, the Devil is trying to take your soul, help Lord! you'll never have the chance again" &c. & worked up the person till he or she got up & made a kind of declaration of feeling, & if it was supposed to come up to his standard
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part in the proceedings but they did not interrupt those who did although these to people who did not acknowledge religion would be most laughable - after this a ring was formed of the moved & then a man kept shouting out at the top of his voice in a shrill tone "Come to Jesus" & then supposing any one made a kind of motion (& he watched them most narrowly) he would say "come now, the Devil is trying to take your soul, help Lord! you'll never have the chance again" &c. & worked up the person till he or she got up & made a kind of declaration of feeling, & if it was supposed to come up to his standard
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