“Do not mourn the past, my brother; it has given place to better times. Do not dread the coming of the future; it shall dawn in brighter and safer glory. Come, and upon the altars of the faith be anointed as the Daniels of to-day, at once the prophet and the worker — the brow bright with the shining prophecy, the hands full of earnest and of holy deeds.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 130.

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English Nonconformist minister 1824–1881

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