 They were convinced that God could not have operated so spectacularly in the Church they had just left, and condemned the Cambuslang Work as ""the delusions of Satan, attending the present awful work upon the bodies of men, going on at Cambuslang"".A fierce and intemperate pamphlet war ensued – though the writers always professed a Christian concern for the truth and the well-being of men's souls.The controversy still rages today, and remarkably similar general positions are still taken, depending on religious convictions, or indeed the lack of them.