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Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.

Edward McKendree Bounds

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Edward McKendree Bounds
Age: 78 †
Born: 1835
Born: August 15
Died: 1913
Died: August 24
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