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For, notwithstanding the great love which the converts to these different faiths expressed at the time of their conversion, and the great
zeal manifested by the respective clergy, who were active in getting up
and promoting this extraordinary scene of religious feeling, in order
to have everybody converted, as they were pleased to call it, let them
join what sect they pleased; yet when the converts began to file off,
some to one party and some to another, it was seen that the seemingly
good feelings of both the priests and the converts were more pretended
than real; for a scene of great confusion and
bad feeling ensued—priest contending against priest, and convert against
convert; so that all their good feelings one for another, if they ever
had any, were entirely lost in a strife of words and a contest about
opinions.
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