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to have us meet but you
"Freia has so often said that she wished to have us meet, but you would not come to our home and I could not go to you at your American Red Cross hospital.
— from The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory by Margaret Vandercook

to heaven Uncle Mose Bress yo
"Do your good works give you this comfortable assurance that you are going to heaven, Uncle Mose?" "Bress yo' heart, honey, I ain't neber done none; but de bressed Lord Jesus covers me all ober wid his goodness, and God de Fader 'cepts me for his sake."
— from Elsie's Motherhood by Martha Finley

their hold upon men because your
"Your churches are losing their hold upon men because your religion is one of separation, here and hereafter—while the one great tendency of the age is toward brotherhood—oneness.
— from The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson

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