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Seamen cannot create the wind, but they can hoist their sails to welcome it; neither can we create the breath of the Spirit, but are we to miss it when it comes through failure to keep our sails unfurled?

John Bunyan

At the end of a church service, in which the murder of the abolitionist publisher Elijah Lovejoy was recounted, John Brown stood up in the back of the church and declared: Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery. 2147

John Brown