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If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world?

— Hosea Ballou Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou (1854)

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Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.

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