“Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 22.

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American minister 1834–1912

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