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RELIGION IN THE UNITED STATES. 195
renounced the doctrines of original sin, election, imputed
righteousness, and some minor articles of faith.
Both parties, however, agree in regarding the Unitarians
as common enemies, and oppose them. I
asked what was the cause of this revival ? and the
general result of all that I could gather was, that the
great mass of the American people cannot boast of a
high intellectual education, but have strong impulsive
emotions; that the Evangelical party address themselves
to their feelings, particularly to their sentiments
of fear and self-love, representing the faith
which they teach as the most momentous of all considerations
for the eternal welfare ot their souls;
that the rational party in religion have abandoned
this lever, and preach more to the understanding and
the disinterested sentiments of the people; and in
consequence fail to satisfy the mass. In New England,
there is a superabundance of churches. In one
village, containing 1800 souls, there are four congregations,
three of which maintain ministers. The
churches are unnecessarily multiplied through contention.
I was informed by a gentleman who had paid
some attention to the state of religion in France,
that in that country, a desire exists for a better form
of religion than the Catholic; but that the devotional
sentiment is so much stronger than reason, that a
ceremonial is regarded as indispensably necessary to
the success of a reformed faith, and that the great
obstacle to its introduction is the difficulty of inventing
a new ceremonial that should not draw down
ridicule from the people while it was new.
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Combe, George, 1788-1858. Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1, book, 1841; Edinburgh, Scotland. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1028/m1/235/?q=%221838%3F%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.