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To be effective the preacher's message must be alive it must alarm, arouse, challenge it must be God's present voice to a particular people.

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Aiden Wilson Tozer
Age: 66 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 21
Died: 1963
Died: May 12
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Pennsylvania
United States
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