“While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer time, the sister evangelism, with release and joy for the body, crept in.silently and greyly, with its head bowed and its face covered.”

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck - “While the churches, bringing the sweet...” 1

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