The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and read, beer and a bed.
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