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What do you think of a religion which holds a bottle of gin in one hand and a Common Prayer in another?

— Mojola Agbebi

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The joys are one, Redemption is one, Christ is one, God is one, but our tongues are various and our styles innumerable.

Hymn-books are non-essentials to the preaching of Jesus Christ.

European Christianity is a dangerous thing.

According to the Apostle’s estimate, the preaching of Christ, the triumph of the Gospel, the success of practical righteousness is the essential thing; all others are non-essentials.

In the carrying out of the function of singing, therefore, let us always remember that we are Africans, and that we ought to sing African songs, and that in African style and fashion.

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

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