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I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the bible. i wish to see the bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary. no educated man can afford to be ignorant of the bible, and no uneducated man can afford to be ignorant of the bible.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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I Enter A Most Earnest Plea That

Theodore Roosevelt
I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the bible. i wish to see the bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary. no educated man can afford to be ignorant of the bible, and no uneducated man can afford to be ignorant of the bible.
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