Wherever God erects a house of prayer / the Devil always builds a chapel there; / And ’t will be found, upon examination, / the latter has the largest congregation.
– Daniel Defoe, “The True-Born Englishman,” 1701
Wherever God erects a house of prayer / the Devil always builds a chapel there; / And ’t will be found, upon examination, / the latter has the largest congregation.
– Daniel Defoe, “The True-Born Englishman,” 1701