”A church,” said Clarence Wilson, commander of Methodist forces in the long-ago war against demon rum,”is not simply here to get people to heaven, but to make this a better world here and now.”
How many folks the Methodists may have levered through the pearly gates over the past century is, of course, a matter subject to speculation and debate. For that matter, Methodism’s record for improving the accommodations down here is beguilingly unclear. But, oh, my brothers and sisters, you can’t say the Methodists haven’t tried, because they have - over and over and over again.
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