“Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be, we can listen and live. Christ Himself, my brother, sows the seed now. Do you take care that it falls not on, but in, your souls.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 85.

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British minister 1826–1910

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