Just as a college,
founded by a denomination, reaches for
respectability, severs its church ties and becomes a secular university, and just as a colony, settled by citizens of a motherland, rebels and becomes a nation, so a dynamic spiritual movement tends to become one more institution, one more system, one more bureaucracy.
Another, less flashy but equally impressive number
finds Charity missing Barnum while he's off touring Europe with his new star (and
respectability insurance policy) Jenny Lind.