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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 26.

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FLATTERY MET.

Dr. Emmons was no friend to the custom of flattering pulpit efforts. An admirer once sent to him the following letter:—
"My Dear Brother:—I have read your sermon on the Atonement, and have wept over it. "Yours, affectionately, A. B. C."
To which the following reply was promptly sent:—
"Dear Sir:—I have read your letter, and laughed at it. "Yours, NATHANIEL EMMONS."