Tuesday, March 23, 2021

The Men of the Bible Class Pose for a Photograph on the Steps of the Methodist Church in 1968 - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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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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