CHURCH OF LAUGHTER
Strange Religious Body
A MERRY PROSECUTION (Rec. November 21, 11 p.m.). Budapest, November 20. The merriest prosecution in the history of crime was enacted when eighteen members of a sect called the “Church of Laughter” were charged with belonging to a religious body not authorised by the State. The sect holds services for Bible readings, in which the members burst into fits of laughter at every verse, justifying their conduct by quoting Bible teaching. , , The defendants were sentenced to a few days’ imprisonment, when they fell down on their knees and prayed that the gift of laughter might be bestowed upon their judges. They were then led to the cells still convulsed with merriment.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 50, 22 November 1930, Page 11
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117CHURCH OF LAUGHTER Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 50, 22 November 1930, Page 11
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