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 | | At the same time, I saw such a spirit of dogmatism and bigotry in clergy and laity, that, if I should be a priest, I must take my side, and pronounce as positively as any of them, or never get a parish, or getting it must soon leave it. |
 | | I perceived very clearly, as I thought, that the study of theology, and pursuit of it as a profession would involve me in endless altercations, make my life miserable, without any prospect of doing any good to my fellow-men. |
 | | Accordingly, I was employed in cutting wick for the candles, filling the dipping mold and the molds for cast candles, attending the shop, going of errands, etc... |
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