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... Society of Christian Endeavor . Graduated from Dartmouth in 1873. The name of this earnest , devoted Christian man is known and honored throughout the Christian world , for he set in motion an organization which has reached a membership ...
... Society of Christian Endeavor . Graduated from Dartmouth in 1873. The name of this earnest , devoted Christian man is known and honored throughout the Christian world , for he set in motion an organization which has reached a membership ...
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... Society for Prevention of Vice , New York . Farmer boy , country store clerk , served in the 17th Conn . Vols . In 1867 accepted clerkship New York city . In 1872 began a vigorous campaign to suppress obscene literature , and has faith ...
... Society for Prevention of Vice , New York . Farmer boy , country store clerk , served in the 17th Conn . Vols . In 1867 accepted clerkship New York city . In 1872 began a vigorous campaign to suppress obscene literature , and has faith ...
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... society for nearly ten years . I am proud of the name of abolitionist . I glory in it . I am willing to bear my full share of the odium that may now or hereafter be heaped upon it . I had far rather be one of the humblest in that little ...
... society for nearly ten years . I am proud of the name of abolitionist . I glory in it . I am willing to bear my full share of the odium that may now or hereafter be heaped upon it . I had far rather be one of the humblest in that little ...
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... society . At eighteen he entered Oxford College , and , refusing to en- gage in the athletic sports of the school , he gave himself wholly to his studies , having , as he told a friend , a seat in the House of Commons in view ...
... society . At eighteen he entered Oxford College , and , refusing to en- gage in the athletic sports of the school , he gave himself wholly to his studies , having , as he told a friend , a seat in the House of Commons in view ...
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... society among civilized peoples are made to protect virtue , and to repress vice . And the more advanced the civilization becomes , the more indispensable , both to the individual and to society , is virtue found to be . Suppose , for a ...
... society among civilized peoples are made to protect virtue , and to repress vice . And the more advanced the civilization becomes , the more indispensable , both to the individual and to society , is virtue found to be . Suppose , for a ...
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