Word: oestengaard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After I had read ''Gamel Oestengaard" in your issue of Dec. 19, I mailed it to an aunt of mine who lives in Valby, asking her to verily the facts in the article...
Pastor Keiding had a fine new church. But the people of Valby continued to ignore it, to patronize the Gammel Oestengaard, an alehouse across the way. Pastor Keiding bought the Gammel Oestengaard, improved its atmosphere, preached his gospel therein. Pleased, Pastor Keiding uttered a heady aphorism: "It is better to sit in a saloon and think about the church than to sit in a church and think about the saloon...
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