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speak in London, recalling years later, "I have not heard since anything which moved me more deeply than that remarkable address . . . delivered in the purest
English, with faultless diction, in a voice like the pealing of a silver bell across a still lake."
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It may be that the historian of the future, who will see the present as we can not see it, because we are too near to its events, will chronicle the origin of the Boy Scout movement as far more important for the development of humanity than the
484:"There can be no great people without a great religion and all your talk about character is so much playing down the wind, unless the regenerating and creative forces make a man obedient and the highest law reigns in his heart."
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in the 1920s and 1930s. He was appointed chairman of the
National Committee for Chinese Famine Relief in 1928 to provide assistance for nine million Chinese facing starvation.
262:, New York, where he would minister for 35 years until his death in 1936. The church grew to become one of the largest U.S. Congregationalist assemblies during his pastorate.
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