It’s hard to imagine a day in the life of the working class American people of the 19th and early 20th centuries – the ones who toiled in the fields before there were tractors; who shaped iron horse shoes with hammer, anvil, and fire; who milked cows and broke the necks of chickens by hand; who hunted game with a rifle or bow, camping through vast woodlands for a fortnight or more; who shoveled coal into the hell-fire furnaces of massive locomotives; who poured molten ore into molds to make the infrastructures of the burgeoning cities; and who balanced on iron beams hundreds of feet in the air to erect the first skyscrapers and magnificent bridges.
So true Peter. Similarly, as has been quoted oft before, the church is not identified by the steeple, but by the steadfast heart of the faithful