Horace Greeley Quotes

Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

Horace Greeley

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• Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

  

  Horace Greeley
  • Trying
  • Church
  • Religion