& I enjoyed it immensely.It raised questions.The story is set in 1950s New York with a Mission going round the streets full of sinners - mostly gamblers- singing hymns and banging drums.The Mission was very earnest, condemnatory, unattractive & dull. The drinkers and the gamblers they were set among had much more fun!
By the end of the story the "sinners" - the gamblers- had changed. But so had the Mission - and a good thing too.
How is it that Mission & Church have managed to become so unappealing ?
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Dear Free Ranger,
Might I suggest that we are no longer prepared to pledge our souls, preferring to hold onto what we believe we have, rather than benefit through an act of faith.
Mavis "Snake Eyes" Waterbutts
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