Simpsons Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
4380
AUTHOR:
John Wesley Lord, Bishop, United Methodist Church, Washington DC
QUOTATION:
The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.
ATTRIBUTION:
On postwar religious revival that swelled church memberships with people drawn by fear of war, hope of social prestige or other nonreligious reasons, Time 1 Feb 63