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for that purpose, where the main, the only object of worship, is the pulpit, an exaggerated egg-cup.
At Lucerne I saw a poor Cretin boy being bullied by other urchins, who kicked his cap about, and called him names. He ran from them into a church, as a place of refuge, and falling on his knees before the altar, poured out his sorrow to his heavenly Father. To what Evangelical lad would such a resort, such an act, have occurred?
The Protestantism I became acquainted with, and from which I recoiled, was Calvinism and Zwinglianism. If this be a poor reason for the turn in my mind, and the antipathy I acquired, all I can say is with Sir Andrew Aguecheek: "I have no exquisite reason for it, but I have reason good enough."
