“The minister, who would be most like the Master, must go and, like Him, lay the warm, kindly hand on the leper, the diseased, the wretched. He must touch the blind eyes with something from himself. The tears must be in his own eyes over the dead who are to be raised to spiritual life. Jesus is our great exemplar.”

— John Hall

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 413.

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Presbyterian pastor from Northern Ireland in New York, died… 1829–1898

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