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Religion Necessary in the Family

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 28, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 26, No. 26.

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Religion Necessary in the Family

ThE Christian Inquirer says, that as a certain gentleman was soliciting subscribers for the Inquirer he called on a certain farmer, who refused to subscribe on the ground that he took so many papers for his family that he needed no more. Mr. — asked what papers he took. The farmer replied that he took a political paper, an agricultural paper, and a Magazine of fashions. Mr. — then answered very wisely and very shrewdly, “It seems, then, that you must have agriculture, politics, and the fashions, all represented in your family, but religion you do not deem to be necessary.” The farmer immediately subscribed.