text:  I can now better appreciate and understand the self-confident tone which pronounced upon my state in the eye of heaven--the canting expressions of brotherly love--the irreverent familiarity with which Scripture was quoted garbled and tortured to justify dissent and render disobedience holy--the daring assumption of inquisitorial privileges and the scorn the illiberality and self-righteousness with which my angry bigoted and vulgar questioners decided on the merits of every institution that eschewed their fanciful vagaries and most audacious claims