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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher
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We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.
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