"A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for."
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Attributed without citation in Gary Ninneman, C.I.A.: Church in Atrophy (Xulon Press, 2006), p. 167. This is wrong; a confusion with John Augustus Shedd.
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William Greenough Thayer Shedd
William Greenough Thayer Shedd (June 21, 1820 β November 17, 1894), son of the Reverend Marshall Shedd and Eliza Thayer, was an American Presbyterian theologian.
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