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Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to me now as though his footsteps were echoing beyond the stars, though only heard faintly in the atmosphere of this world.

— William Mountford Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.

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The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

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God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.

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Yes, death, — the hourly possibility of it, — death is the sublimity of life.

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It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth.

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