Absorbing Quote by Edward McKendree Bounds

“Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.”

Edward McKendree Bounds

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