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Stripping Leaves from the Rod

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 8, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 46.

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Stripping Leaves from the Rod

Dr. Hawes used to say that his style of preaching was moulded by the criticism of Dr. Emmons on a single sermon. The doctor read a paper to his tutor exuberant with rhetoric. "Joel," said the sage, "I kept school once. When I whipped the boys, I always stripped the leaves off the rod."