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The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
Mary Augusta Ward
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Mary Augusta Ward
Age: 68 †
Born: 1851
Born: June 11
Died: 1920
Died: March 24
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