“He commanded that something should be given her to eat.”

— Henry Clay Trumbull

Has any body's daughter or any body's son been raised from spiritual death in your congregation, or in your class recently? If so, give the revived soul something to eat.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 412.

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Union Army chaplain 1830–1903

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