Ex Libris Kirkland

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Subtitle A Religious Life of John Brown
First Written 2005
Genre Biography
Origin US
Publisher NYU Press
ISBN-10 0814719228
ISBN-13 978-0814719220
My Copy library copy
First Read February 15, 2005

Fire From the Midst of You



We are fixing a little for the State Fair, but whether any of us are preparing for Heaven; is very doubtful.

Quoted on December 11, 2010

Again, JB didn't swear, "... the worst he could shriek was, "God bless the Duke of Argyle!"

Quoted on December 11, 2010

He always felt that truly successful men were those with their own libraries.

Quoted on December 11, 2010

Consider, it is a duty you owe your children in point of justice. From you they received the defilement and misery of their natures; and therefore you owe them all possible help for their recovery.

Quoted on December 11, 2010

JB's father Owen Brown wrote, "I have [done] many things to wound the cause of Religion and but very little to promote the cause of Christ[,] and if I am saved it will be by the mercy of God in Christ Jesus for I am yet vile.

Quoted on December 11, 2010


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