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To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers and throw him, naked and helpless, into the hands of the Holy Spirit to lead him to Christ in faith should be the one great aim of the ministry.

Ichabod Spencer

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Ichabod Spencer
Age: 56 †
Born: 1798
Born: February 23
Died: 1854
Died: November 23
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Ichabod Smith Spencer
Ichabod S. Spencer
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