Political Quotes

On the recordMay 19, 1902
Every earnest and zealous believer, every man or woman who is a doer of the word and not a hearer only, is a lifelong missionary in his or her field of labor—a missionary by precept, and, by what counts a thousand fold more than precept, by practice.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Centennial Meeting of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church at Carnegie Hall in New York City

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