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of the leading members.
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They won't stand for it!
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column. By
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I mean four or five men--men of means, who absolutely ruled the church. The deacons had nothing to say, the church had as little.
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The Society was the thing. The
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Society in a Congregational church is a sort of secular adjunct charged with the duty of providing the material essentials. Their word is law, the only law. In their estimation business and religion could not be mixed, nor could things of the church be permitted to interfere in politics. The purchase of an alderman was to them as legitimate as the purchase of a cow. Some of them laughed as they told me of buying an election in the borough. It was a great joke to them. They were patriotic, very loudly patriotic, and their special hobby was