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“You seem to have a good deal of suicides. And 60,000 men and
faith,” said Charlie.
women went down to drunkard-’
“I do have; and I don’t give peo- graves,
pie up until my five senses arecon-j Our population numbers about
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vinced. I don’t assume everybody 73,000,000, so you see that not one-
to be a liar, much less a woman like third of our vast legions are church
Blanche, from whose eyes nothing members, yet
notwithstanding
but virtue shines. Remember Mad- this fact we'pat ourselves on the
eline. Was she not most faithful, back, and tell our heathen neigh-
most loving, even unto deat h, though hors that “weuns” are out of the
y o u were convinced, perhaps on bet slough of despond, and on board
ter evidence than this, that she was the ark of safety because we are a
false? Come, do have some faith, Christian nation, and “don’t you
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-and don’t take things exactly as you forget it.”
see them. Probe to the bottom.’
Little ones maybe you are not
“Would I could believe in her!” particularly interested in this part
said Charlie. “ 1 fl could but keep of my discourse so I will change the
my trust, I would follow her over subject and tell you something about
land and sea.”
the book of Mormon, which, by the
“Take my word for it that you wa v, is the only one of the 27 dif-
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f e r o n t h ih le u t h a t .««« » .
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f r a n k , th e in d ep en d en t preacl •her of New York C ity . T he
can trust her,” said Will.
rent bibles th a t men have made
m ost learned, accurate, scientific and phil
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‘•But these letters,— how do you oath as to divine production.
taim m ajesty ever liefore p u b lish e d : 66 Datres
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explain them? They are in her
And as God in his great wisdom
Its uselessness am i unscientific assu m p tio n . Some one h u n d red au-
handwriting.”
and sagacity selected Americans to
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“There’s where you jump. The edit the book, I feel somewhat
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