While the mission would become the spiritual home for hundreds, it was also a tempting, if not a satisfying watering hole for thousands more. Some people came to drink deeply from its artesian abundance out of their thirst of desperation. They went away refreshed and renewed. Others came merely to be titillated, to be splashed with its overflow. More often than not, their reward was simply the entertainment they received as they watched those who were serious about meeting God enter into states of religious ecstasy. Still others came to cast stones at the “misguided,” even the “dangerous”
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