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J. Milton Miles

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Whenever the Presbyterian bell         Was rung by itself, I knew it as the Presbyterian bell.         But when its sound was mingled         With the sound of the Methodist, the Christian,         The Baptist and the Congregational,         I could no longer distinguish it,         Nor any one from the others, or either of them.         And as many voices called to me in life         Marvel not that I could not tell         The true from the false,         Nor even, at last, the voice that         I should have known.

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