Religion: Lollypopularity

"Get on and go to Sunday School! Get on and go to Sunday School!"

Cruising the streets of New Bedford, Mass., in a truck on Sunday mornings, two men shouted this invitation to each & every child they saw. They were members of New Bedford's Church of the Nazarene (a small sect placing great emphasis on revival and "holiness"), which was running a Sunday School attendance contest with the Church of the Nazarene in Maiden. Their method of proselyting was to lure young moppets into the truck with lollypops, trundle them off to church.

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