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Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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