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I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher.
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Letter to his son, Webb Hayes (26 February 1875).

 

Rutherford B. Hayes

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