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Thank God that my eyes have not closed without seeing this great salvation!
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Sumner expresses gratitude for witnessing the progress towards emancipation before his death.
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Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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