"No matter where the skeptical thought originates, or how it gets access to our minds, we see at once that it flattens the level of life and every aspiration. It makes our character less vigorous. The gospel is not simply a philosophy of religion or law of life, but it is an apocalypse, showing the heavens to our thought, and so bringing its spiritual benedictions to every heart and life."
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Richard Salter Storrs
Richard Salter Storrs (21 August 1821 β 7 June 1900) was an American Congregational clergyman.
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