What the gentlemen of Philadelphia do with themselves on a Sunday, I will not pretend to guess, but the prodigious majority of females in the churches is very remarkable.

Although a large proportion of the population of this city are Quakers, the same extraordinary variety of faith exists here, as every where else in the Union, and the priests have, in some circles, the same unbounded influence which has been mentioned elsewhere.
One history reached me, which gave a terrible picture of the effect this power may produce; it was related to me by my mantua-maker; a young woman highly estimable as a wife and mother, and on whose veracity I perfectly rely.

She told me that her father was a widower, and lived with his family of three daughters, at Philadelphia.

A short time before she married, an itinerant preacher came to the city, who contrived to obtain an intimate footing in many respectable families.

Her father's was one of these, and his influence and authority were great with all the sisters, but particularly with the youngest.