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Where the Scriptures speak, we speak where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent.

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Thomas Campbell
Age: 66 †
Born: 1777
Born: July 27
Died: 1844
Died: June 15
Journalist
Musicologist
Poet
Writer
Glasgow
Scotland
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