“Staying where you now are, you must perish; coming to Christ, you can but perish; coming to Christ, no one ever did perish; while you sit still and starve, there is bread enough and to spare in your Father's house. Will you return?”

—  Samuel I. Prime

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 341.

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American clergyman, traveler, and writer 1812–1885

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