The Last Supper - The Last Day of the Lord

The opening lines of sinclair lewis's 19 27 novel, elmer gantre, are a classic portrayal of ministerial hypocrisy. The main character is a fiery preacher who condemns immorality and ambition while practising both. i asked my friend paul twiss, who's from the midwest of england, to read it for us. Elma gantre was drunk. He could make good morning seem profound as cant welcoming as a brass band and uplifting as cathedral organ. It was a cello his voice. And in the enchantment of it, you did not hear his slang, his boasting, his smut and the dreadful violence,. which at this period he