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Article: Lost souls: a meditation.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- December 31, 1987
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LOST SOULS A MEDITATION
IN OUR VILLAGE of Mecosta, this summer, the church was converted into an antique shop. During my lifetime Mecosta has had but one church, a Methodist meeting-house; now the village has none. (In my great-grandfather's day there stood also the Spiritualist Church, across the road from our family's house, and attended by my ancestors; but that building was mysteriously burnt down before my birth.) It seems fitting enough that the Methodist church should be crammed with antiques, for most folk nowadays regard Christian dogmas as of antiquarian interest merely.
Over the decades, as I watched, Mecosta's Methodist congregation shrank ...