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When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

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Thomas Brooks
Age: 77 †
Born: 1880
Born: July 7
Died: 1958
Died: February 15
Politician
Thurgoland
South Yorkshire
Thomas Judson Brooks
Afflictions
Arrest
Affliction
Strikes
Grace
Struggle
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Grumble
Murmur

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