William Mackergo Taylor (1829–1895) American theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 473.
“Tell us not that the world is governed by universal law; the news is not comfortable, but simply horrible, unless you can tell us, or allow others to tell us, that there is a loving giver, and a just administrator of that law.”
Sermon, The Meteor Shower.
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