"The latest assaults upon the old-fashioned denominationalism are made, every now and then, by some new church,the statistics and leading features of which are somewhat as follows:
ministers, one;
members, intermittent from the sexton up to a moderate crowd, according as the subject of the sermon advertised on Saturday takes or does not take the fancy of those who spend the Lord's day in hunting lions;
churches, one (over, if not in, a beer saloon;)
creed, every man believes what he chooses;
terms of membership, every one who feels like it shall belong till he chooses to leave."
(pagination mine)
From...."The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology"p. 123, Charles P. Krauth, 1871
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