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Oak lawn 12th (Mon) June 1837
The weather is very cool for the season yesterday
sunday the morning was so cool as to be [called?]
cold thick clothes were me if any to keep the lady work.
sunday 10th we [some?] of us rode out to a baptist
church not far from pitch landing called Behtlehem.
I merely mentioned this sunday because I took exception
to some part of the sermon delivered to a courted enable
and very respectable congregation gather by a son of god.
The preacher is [exalting] the bible which all men
shouts [so] made a fling at the temperance society
by adhereing to the letter of this [discourse?] a person
might insist that the sentinment objected to was no
fling at all at the temperance society [] insist it
was a [garnet?] temperance in effect if not in design
here however are the preacher's words alluded to
the bible is worth all the [?????] in the world
is worth all the [?????] and pamphlets a gentleman
source [] deciced insisted a tempreance pamphlet
let to a lady, [aslhisag?] her, if she did not want to read
the best book that was ever written in the world
which is this [] the lady [accused] the bible was
the best look that was ever [????]". These are his
words as well as [recollided] and the preacher in [law]
ling the [blissed] bible [devolved] in [??????] terms
all after books and particulary treats [?????] and
pamphlets of movers [????] evidently meaning the
many [printed] papers on behalf of the several
[benevolent] [institutions] of this day [?????] by
the christian churches but [once] however [church]
mentions as the object his [obloquiry] [sermon] [preaches] theo-
logicle [manifestly] all thought sneered at others
which christians and his [over] church in partic-
ular think it their deity to support those accquai-
nted is the human nature must heal [????]
and the ignorant [laity] will interpret the
above [quelled] words from sacred all [thereby] as against
temperanced societies I [think] the interference was
plain to most [who] heard his words the preacher
however being are can learned man might not [here]
[intended] this [????] yet while extolling the service