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Rev. Lemuel Wiley

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I preached four thousand sermons,         I conducted forty revivals,         And baptized many converts.         Yet no deed of mine         Shines brighter in the memory of the world,         And none is treasured more by me:         Look how I saved the Blisses from divorce,         And kept the children free from that disgrace,         To grow up into moral men and women,         Happy themselves, a credit to the village.

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