| | The Mental World of Ralph Merry: A Case Study of Popular Religion in the Lower Canadian-New England Borderland, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) |
 | | Relatively little has been written by English Canadian historians about popular religion, which does not have the same meaning in the North American context that it does in Catholic Europe where there was once a fundamental distinction between the Christianity that the clerics taught and that of the people. |
 | | Upon listening to a twenty-year-old preacher named John Orrock on 25 August 1850, Merry noted that 'he is an adventist but not a harsh and biggoted one,' which suggests some scepticism towards the sect that had emerged from the ashes of Millerism. |
 | | In the very first entry of Merry's journal, he noted that his brother John had set out with '20 Complaints for different folks, 17 of which were writen by me, one for Myself,' to present to Samuel Austin of Coulchester near Lake Champlain. |
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