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Last Sabbath, in the great congregation, I publicly thanked God that you used the word ‘whitewashing.’ The same thing I did in Albany; the same thing I do now.
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Sumner shares his public acknowledgment of a colleague's use of the term 'whitewashing' in a sermon.
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