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Let us consider it, let us approach it carefully, and give to it something of that attention which the grandeur of the interest involved requires.
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Sumner calls for careful consideration of important matters, highlighting their significance.
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Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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