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H. W. Beecher Quote

“Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you."”

— H. W. Beecher

Source: Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers — Wikisource

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