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Ben Harrison: “This subject is one that has long attracted the attention, and I think I may say has, perhaps, greatly attracted the…”

On the recordOctober 6, 1891
This subject is one that has long attracted the attention, and I think I may say has, perhaps, greatly attracted the interest and adherence of the United States as that of any other Christian power in the world.
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Ben Harrison
Republican · Indiana

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Address to the Methodist Ecumenical Conference at the Metropolitan M.E. Church in Washington

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