First Baptist Church 70th Anniversary Sermon

              Sevuon 4#2iT#r©d &y fir* 01«ano# f * Kamper*
Faator* the I Bandar* Colo*
Hay % 1934t
To c t* tha 70th Msmi*fm?Bmtj of tha Chnroiu
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Xe tha tenth ahqptear of lehreaa* 13th ?eree» yw will find tbaae
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mi may itHl breathe* ^* *• «"• essentially dead*   Indian te
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paraofytl Hiring or of organisationa* of whataoawr k£ad*«» obw^oh or anything elaa*
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, lifi t tho ii   la are always li c!xa light atraaiiing down
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in i *to# ooelwmre - dual* who target* tha paat*   % tha
vary feet that ha mmm to aae tha light that ehtoea down npm Mm imm the jm%mt*«
days* ha baeoitea tba prig that ha i% forgetful of tho fac all that
ha it Is aat his aebieveauNit* tat too Ml 1 laga^y of foroea ni*
able* that hate o&at thair ahadowa an t thaix see aa to bin day*
A apaitker at fiarra ty one day sade & irary wlae abaartmiicin*
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to thia plaoe*   8a* though wa be gattored hara to a eemgra re
et ooDgrag f r®pmmmMj®g ^@ gaaaraMoma of tea paat aisoa flMt the
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ing ee wo^ld too blind* ^niaagiaatiTa* if wa did mot aaa e mat thveag of In»
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to^ ago* In thoaa daya of feaginfiinga* a yw^g eaa* fimSl of body*
pioneering in apirit* a reeant gra&iata of ^.oehaatar VbiTeraitgr* found hia way otar
the flaina* finally fey eeaah* to 1Mb tb« eauklX #^^mmity of tae ^oma^^I poula 3n
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daya after hia awdTalt ha addretaed Ma ftri«^la in tha aaat to a latter* asytogi