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# Page Description This is a page of running prose (page 200) from a work titled "A Month's Tour." The text describes the narrator and companions leaving a mass-house (Catholic chapel) where they were criticized by a congregation member for not kneeling during worship. The narrator dismisses this rebuke, attributing it to the place's dirtiness, and expresses relief at returning to the established Anglican church, which they characterize as "decent, rational and edifying" compared to the "mansion of ignorance and superstition" they've left behind. The passage appears anti-Catholic in sentiment.
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200 “A MONTH’s TOUR. In quitting the mafs-houfe, we were fol- lowed by a perfon of fome confequence in the congregation, who was very much chagrined at cur notkneeling with the ret of the people. He accofted us in the fol- lowing language. “ Gentlemen, the next time you vifit this place, I hope you will conform, in the exterior part at leaft, to _our form of worfhip”. We, thinking the dirtinefs of the place a fufficient apology, took very little notice of his reproof,. and wifhed hima good morning. How happy did we find ourfelves in exchanging this manfion of ignorance and fuperftition: for the eftablithed church, which, though it _ pretends not to perfection, is undoubtedly a moft decent, rational and edifying form of. divine worhhip. : | We comicbooks.com