"Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended."
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Matthew Simpson, (1885) Sermons. p. 202
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Matthew Simpson
Matthew Simpson (June 20, 1811 – June 18, 1884) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1852.
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