Sinclair Lewis

    "I know, Dr. Binch, I know, but I mean in its sacred sense, as of David dancing before the Lord."

    "But I feel there was a different meaning to that. If you only knew the original Hebrew - the word should not be translated 'danced' but 'was moved by the spirit.' "

    "Really? I didn't know that. I'll use that."

    They all looked learned.

    "What methods, Dr. Binch," asked Elmer, "do you find the most successful in forcing people to come to the altar when they resist the Holy Ghost?" 

From Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

First Signet Classics Printing, February 1967

First Signet Classics Printing, December 2007

First Published 1927