Shocking Low Church!
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Religion, Class, Railways, Travel, Steam-power, Religious Authority |
Responding to a proposal to establish churches for the ragged, suggests the possibility of churches for first, second, and third-class members of society (in line with railway travel). Accordingly, envisions the adoption of 'steam-organs' and 'the substitution of locomotives for clergymen'. |
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