“Your great employment is to bring the individual souls of men to Christ.”

—  Edward Norris Kirk

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 411.

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American Christian missionary, pastor, teacher, evangelist … 1802–1874

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