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The Men of the Bible Class Pose for a Photograph
on the Steps of the Methodist Church in 1968
My grandfather once threatened
some other old man
With his pocketknife just before
the ten o’clock
Maybe it was over a point
of theology
That’s surely as exciting
as Bible class ever got
The Baptist men were the
city council
And most of the school’s
board of trustees too
But the Methodists somehow
had more self-assurance
You can see it in their
bearing and their suits
They seem to be their
fathers in 1898
With railroads and
sawmills – great times ahead
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