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... Truth I Thought Needed to Be Told " 19 God . As if this castigation were not enough , he rubbed salt into the national wounds by justifying the ways of God to the nation by acknowledging in all this destruction of wealth and loss of ...
... Truth I Thought Needed to Be Told " 19 God . As if this castigation were not enough , he rubbed salt into the national wounds by justifying the ways of God to the nation by acknowledging in all this destruction of wealth and loss of ...
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... truths , that when in the distant future some man , some faction , some interest , should set up the doctrine that ... truth , and justice , and mercy , and all the humane and Christian vir- tues might not be extinguished from the land ...
... truths , that when in the distant future some man , some faction , some interest , should set up the doctrine that ... truth , and justice , and mercy , and all the humane and Christian vir- tues might not be extinguished from the land ...
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... truth has been carefully swept out of our churches , there yet remains the dust of truth on their walls , so that if you should carry a light into them they would still , like some powder - mills , blow up at once [ Torrey and Allen ...
... truth has been carefully swept out of our churches , there yet remains the dust of truth on their walls , so that if you should carry a light into them they would still , like some powder - mills , blow up at once [ Torrey and Allen ...
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CHAPTER 3 | 26 |
Lincoln and the Debate about Civil Religion | 41 |
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