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Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
Clergyman
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Literary Historian
Plainfield
New Jersey
Gotten
Sin
Trouble
Science
Men

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