“The Christian's life on this side and beyond the grave is essentially the same, differing only as a song which, at a certain point, changes from the minor to the major key, and thenceforth wells along with still more glorious harmonies.”

—  John McClellan Holmes

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 118.

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US Christian minister and author 1834–1911

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