“The Lord's Supper! the marriage supper of the Lamb! There are vacant seats around the table here. Will there be dear ones missed at the table there?”

— Abbott Eliot Kittredge

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 374.

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American minister 1834–1912

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