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Title: The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statistics. With a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Belcher, Joseph, 1794-1859
Subjects: Sects Sects Religions
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. E. Potter
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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dividual by the feu sacre which predominated in his disposition. Nor
was this impression weakened by his conversation. Wisdom and piety
were, as might be expected in such a man, its general tone; but there
was a vivacity pervading it which indicated strong, buoyant, though
well, it may be said very severely, disciplined animal spirits. Wit, too,
was there, playful, pure, free from malice, and a certain quiet Cervantic
humor, full of benignity, would often enliven and illustrate what he had
to say on purely temporal affairs. His conversation was thus both very
able and remarkably pleasing.
Of his personal habits, Mrs. Emily C. Judson gives the followin
account: His predilection for neatness, uniformity, and order,
amounted indeed to a passion. Then he had an innate sort of refine-
ment about him, which would subject him to annoyance when a less
sensitive person would only be amused—a most inconvenient qualifica-
tion for a missionary. This passion for order—which I should rather
consider an unconquerable love for the beautiful and elegant, studiously
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MRS. EMILY C. JUDSON.

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Associated Baptists. 199

perverted—displayed itself rather oddly after the means for its natural
gratification and development were cut off. Nobody ever luxuriated
more in perfectly spotless linen, though partly from necessity, and partly
because there was a suspicion among his friends that he would wear no
other, it was always coarse. The tie of the narrow black ribbon, which
he wore instead of a neckcloth, was perfect, and the ribbon itself would
not have soiled the purest snow, though it was often limp and rusty
from frequent washing. His general dress was always clean, and ad-
justed with scrupulous exactness, though it often looked as if it might
have belonged to some rustic of the last century; being of the plainest
material, and in fashion the American idea of what was proper for a
missionary, perpetuated in broad caricature by a bungling Bengalee
tailor. Most people thought that he dressed oddly from a love of ec-
centricity ; but the truth is, he was not in the

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