Mr. Anderson

The way my Mom tell the story, one sunny Sunday morning in the late 1940's at a church in Freeman Minnesota, the pastor climbed into the pulpit and began his sermon.

"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God

Now, today I am going to be talking about the sin of demon liquor, like Elza Anderson (pointing to my grandfather) sitting there in the third pew willingly distributes."

Accounts vary on what happened next, Whether my grandfather stood up and escorted my mother and grandfather from the church that instant, or whether he waited patiently till the end of the service. Either way, the record is clear, we were done being Methodists from that day on.