ATDTDA (1): "this ain't the Epworth League"

[Tim Strzechowski]

[...] "It's after bedtime, sonny."
"The door was open ---"
"Yeah, and maybe this ain't the Epworth League" (p. 24).

The Epworth League was an organization of the young people of the Methodist Episcopal church, formed in 1889 at Cleveland, Ohio, by the combination of five young people's organizations then existing. The purpose of the league was the promotion of intelligent and vital piety among the young people of the church. [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epworth_League


See also:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~iaclarke/epworth.html

http://www.southernmethodistchurch.org/id48.htm

http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/masonicmuseum/fraternalism/epworth_league.htm
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