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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

E. Stanley Jones

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E. Stanley Jones
Age: 89 †
Born: 1884
Born: January 3
Died: 1973
Died: January 25
Missionary
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Baltimore
Maryland
Eli Stanley Jones
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Respectability
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