My Mother has used the term, "Sunday School Crowd," for as long as I can remember to refer to hypocrites. She says she remembers her grandmother; Martha Elvira Mitchell Reece; from Garrison; wife of Paley Reece, of Dickens, Taney Co., using the term. This is from a girl from Gate, Beaver Co., OK. All these folks were Quakers too............ Jerry Johnston

We have used the term "SUNDAY SCHOOL CROWD" as a term for people who do right and are found in Church on Sundays and have our own social gatherings made up of those who attend church regularly. We've also used it to describe the size of those attending Sunday School. "Our Sunday School crowd was down today". I've never heard it used as a term to describe hypocrites. Being a preacher's daughter, I've lived all over the Ozarks of MO as well as in north MO. I now live in Kansas, and the feeling is the same. When talking about hypocrites, we've always used the word "hypocrites". Lanita