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“  ​ In the primitive church were not prayers simple, unpremeditated, united; prayers of the well-taught apostle; prayers of the accomplished scholar; prayers of the rough but fervent peasant; prayers of the new and zealous convert; prayers which importuned and wrestled with an instant and irrepressible urgency;—were they not an essential part of that religion, which holy fire had kindled, and which daily supplications alone could fan?”
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