'Why so you were, child,' the Puritan rejoined, 'because I had full

reliance on you, and did not conceive you could have been so easily
beguiled by Satan
'Why so you were, child,' the Puritan rejoined, 'because I had full
reliance on you, and did not conceive you could have been so easily
beguiled by Satan. I lament to find you cannot discern the superstition
and wickedness lurking within this false, though fair-seeming spectacle.
Do you not perceive that in setting up this wooden idol, and worshipping
it, these people are returning to the dark and sinful practices of
Paganism of which it is an undoubted remnant? If you cannot discern
this, I will make it manifest to you anon. But I tell you now briefly,'
he continued in a voice of thunder, calculated to reach those at a
distance, 'that the ceremony is impious; that those who take part in it
are idolaters; and that those who look on and approve are participators
in the sin; yea, are equal in sin to the actors themselves.'