"Remember!--It is Christianity to do good always--even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity to love our neighbours as ourself, and to do to a...

The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.
~ Charles Dickens ~












The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought t...
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