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My goodness! I should think the moderns would excise this from every hymnal. Imagine putting Jesus first!

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That's right. You know, the more I learn about such things as the YMCA movement, and the Chautauqua movement, and The Knights of Father Mathew (a Catholic temperance movement), the more powerfully I am struck by the intelligence and the forceful moral preaching that the promoters manifested. To speak to five thousand men at once, at that time, when people did not have automobiles or a lot of free time, was quite a feat, and I daresay if we could read their sermons, we'd be abashed. I know that I'm abashed when I read works of literary criticism from before 1950...

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Wow what a story.

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Thank you for this beautiful story.

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Great rendition from Tewksbury and the words are appropriate for voting day.

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