"Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge."

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Source : Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1862). “The Recreations of a Country Parson”, p.325

Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

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