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One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.

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Billy Sunday
Age: 72 †
Born: 1862
Born: November 19
Died: 1935
Died: November 6
Baseball Player
Evangelist
Ames
Iowa
William Ashley Sunday
Treated
Sin
Instead
Reason
Rattlesnake
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Rattlesnakes
Flourishes
Puff
Cream

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