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There is no use of Evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of Evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core, namely the Scriptures.

Francis Schaeffer

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Francis Schaeffer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 30
Died: 1984
Died: May 15
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Germantown
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Francis August Schaeffer
Francis A. Schaeffer
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