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The pulpit is false to its trust” if it does not follow and rebuke them, under whatever robes of official dignity they may hold their revels.
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Mann asserts that religious leaders fail in their duty if they do not challenge societal vices, regardless of authority.
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The kidnapper, Alberti, now lies in a Pennsylvania prison for carrying away a mother and her child; but the mother and the child are now groaning under the lash of a southern taskmaster.
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I answer, that this difference which they so be-little and disparage will often be all the difference between freedom and bondage, between life and death, between honor and infamy, between happiness and perdition.
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