“Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fellow, should shake the life out. of it in his rough play among the flowers? or is it a hardy shrub, which rejoices when the wild winds course along the heather or howl above the crest of Lebanon ' We need, believe me, the bravery of godliness to bear true witness for our Master now.”

— William Morley Punshon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 452.

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English Nonconformist minister 1824–1881

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