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John Lancaster Spalding

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Wouldst thou bestow some precious gift upon thy fellows, make thyself a noble man.
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O my boy! thou hast been to me like a man who took a stone, and threw it up to heaven to stone his Lord with it. And the stone did not hit, and did not reach high enough, but it became the cause of guilt and sin.
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