Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, pp. 256:9–11, 361:11–13 (1867).
“I have read somewhere of a sermon preached by one of these in the Cathedral of Notre Dame. This old priest, among other things, said that the soul of a beggar was as dear to God as the soul of the richest of his people, and that Jesus Christ died as much for a beggar as for a prince. One French peasant, rough with labor, cried out: “I propose three cheers for Jesus Christ.””
I like such things. I like to hear of them. I like to repeat them.
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