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When Preaching Trumps Praying – Jeremiah 7:16 – 7:20

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The editor of a small weekly newspaper in a town in the West was hard put one week for copy to fill his columns. So he had his compositor set up the Ten Commandments, and ran them without making any editorial comment. Three days after the paper was published he received a letter saying: “Please cancel my subscription. You’re getting too personal.” (Encyclopedia of Illustrations #10343).