“Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends,— do we not hear them saying to us, "Come up hither?"”

—  William Mountford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 310.

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English Unitarian preacher and author 1816–1885

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