A word to church leaders from Mark Twain.
We’ve been reading ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ with our son over the past little while. Here’s an excerpt that made me smile …
[context: a description of a church service in Tom's town]
After the hymn had been sung, the Rev. Mr. Sprague turned himself into a bulletin board and read off “notices” of meetings and societies and things till it seemed that the list would stretch out to the crack of doom–a queer custom which is still kept up in America, even in cities, away here in this age of abundant newspapers. Often the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. (Mark Twain, 1876)
Often the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
aaaand scene.
