“The creeds are not changing as rapidly as the beliefs of the people, nor as rapidly as most men of progressive mind desire”

—  Benjamin Fish Austin

Defence at his Heresy Trial

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Nineteenth-century Canadian educator/Methodist Minister/Spi… 1850–1933

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