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BUTLER, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 7. 188+
The Inspiration of the liililc.
A lecture by H. 1.. Hastings, before the Mitssa
chusetts Annual Convention of the Y. M. C. Asso
ciations, at Spencer, October 13,1881.
[CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK ]
What makes this book so different
from all other books? Whose book is
it? Who made it? Infidels have the
! strangest ideas on that subject. I rec
| ollect in Marlboro, Mass., I read in a
l newspaper an article written by an in-
I fidel, which stated that the Council of
! Nice, in the year 325, compiled the
! New Testament. They had a lot of
I Gospels and Epistles, genuine and
| spurious, and no one could distinguish
between the two; so they put them all
on the floor and prayed that the good
ones might get up on the communion
table and the bad ones stay ou the
floor; and that was the way the pres
ent New Testament was compiled.
And that is the kind of food that infi
dels are made to swallow and digest;
for that very statement can be found
in various infidel books now issued by
infidel publishers This writer said
that this account rested on the authori
ty of Papias, an early Christian Bishop.
I replied, in a lecture, that there was
one difficulty about that story—that
Papias was dead and buried a hundred
and fifty years before the Council of
Nice was held; but as they might
have got the news from "the spirits,"
that might be no great objection to
them. The man rose to explain, and
said that this was not the right Papias,
but that it was another Papias. "an ob
scure Christian bishop of the fourth
century." I told hint I thought he
was obscure; so obscure that no one
ever heard of him before or since. On
investigation it was learned that a
German dominie, named John Pappus,
preacher in Strasburg, and a professor
at Munster, who died in 1610, discov
ered this story in an old Greek manu
script entitled "Synodikon," which
was written by some old romancer
back in the dark ages, about the year
900, for it relates things whick occur
red as late as 879, over five hundred
yearsafterthe Council of Nice was dead
and buried. And this story, written
nobody knows when, where, or by
whom, has been swallowed, believed,
and published by infidels far and near,
as an account of the origin of the New
Testament; and the men who believe
and peddle such fables call Christians
fools for beliereing the Bible
I have on one of my library shelves,
between twenty and thirty volumes,
containing about twelve thousand
pages of writings of different Christian
authors who wrote before A. D. 325,
when the Council of Nice was held.
Many of those books are full of Scrip
ture. Those writers had the same j
books which we have; they quoted the
same passages we quote; they quoted
from the same Gospel and Epistles
from which we quote.
Origen, wrote a hundred years be
fore the Council of Nice; quotes 5,745
passages from all the books in the
New Testament; Tertullian, A. D. 200,
makes more than 3,000 quotations |
from the New Testament books; Clem- !
ent, A. o. 194, quotes 380 passages; :
Irenajus, A. D. 178, quotes 767 pass- j
ages; Polyearp, who was martyred A. j
D. 165, after having served Christ
eighty-six years, in a single epistle
quoted 36 passages; Justin Martyr, A.
D. 140, also quotes from the New Tes
tament; to say nothing of heathen and j
infidel writers like Celsus, A. D. 150, J
and Porphyry, A. D. 304, who referred i
to or quoted scores of the very pass-'
ages now found in the Scriptures
which we have. Indeed, Lord Ilailes,
of Scotland, having searched the writ
ings of the Christian Fathers to the
end of the third century, actually found
the whole of the New Testament, with
the exception of less than a dozen j
verses, scattered through their writings ,
which are still extant; so that, if at the
time of the Council of Nice every copy
of the New Testament had been anni- I
hilated, the book could have been re
produced from the writings of early j
Christian ,Fathers, who quoted the
book as we quote it, and who believed
it as we believe it. And now infidels j
talk about the Council of Nice getting j
up the New Testament. You might |
as well talk about a town council get- j
ting up the Revised Statues of the
state or nation, because they happened
to say they accepted or received them. 1
The Council of Nice did nothing of the ;
kind. The books of the New Testa- ]
ment were received from the apostles
who wrote them, and were carefully
preserved, and publicly read in the |
churches of Christ long before the j
Council of Nice was held.
Says Tertullian, A. I). 200, "If you
are willing to exercise your curiosity
profitably in the business of your sal
vation, visit the apostolic churches; in
which the very chairs of the apostles
still preside in their places; in which
their very authentic letters are recited,
sounding forth the voice and represent
ee countenance of every one of them.
Is Achaia near you? You have Cor
inth. If you are not far from Mace
donia you have Philippi and Thessa
lonica; if you can go to Asia you have
Ephesus, but if you are near to Italy
you have Rome."
These apostolic churches received
the Gospels at the hands of the men
who wrote them; and the Epistles were
written and signed by men w r hom they
well knew. Paul wrote, "The saluta
tion of me, Paul, by mine own hand,
which is the token in every epistle, so
I write."
Now, what did these writers testify?
They testified things which thev knew.
The apostle John does not say, "That
which we have dreamed, imagined, or
guessed at, that thing we declare
unto you;" but, "That which was from
the beginning, which we have heard,
which we have seen with our eyes,
which we have looked upon, and our
hands have handled, of the Word of
Life." 1 John i. 1. This was their
testimony. They testified they saw
Christ in his life and in his death; that
they saw him after his resurrection, and
felt his hands and feet, and saw the
nail-prints and the spear-wounds; and
they knew these things and testified of
them, and they preached Christ who
had died and risen again.
When Lepaux, a member of the
French Directory, complained to Tal
leyrand that his new religion, "Theo
philanthrophy," made little headway
among the people, the shrewd old states
man replied :
"I am not surprised at the difficulty
you find in your effort- It is no easy
matter to introduce a new religion. But
there is one thing I would advise you
to do, and then, perhaps, you might
succeed."—"What is it ? what is it ?"
eagerly asked Lepaux.—"lt is this,"
said Talleyrand; "go and be crucified,
and then be buried, and then rise ayain
on the third day, and then go on work
ing miracles, raising the dead, and
healing all manner of diseases, and
casting out devils; aod then it is possi
ble that you may accomplish your
end!" The philosopher went away
silent; and no infidel succeeded in ful
filling tbese conditions. But Christ
has died, and risen again, and these
apostles suffered the loss of all things,
und even of life itself, in proclaiming
these facts; and they left their testi
mony on record in this Book. Then
the apostles qaote from the prophets,
and the prophets" quote from the
Psalms, and refer to the Law which
was given on Mount Sinai; and so we
go back from book to book, until we
reach the book of Genesis, and that
does not quote from anybody or any
thing. You have then reached tho
fountain-head.
"But," says one, "I think that the
Bible may be a true history, but that
is no proof of its inspiration. It does
not require divine inspiration to write
a true history." So you think it an
easy matter to tell the truth, do you ?
I wish you could make other people
think so. Suppose you go and read a
file of the newspapers published just be
fore the last election, and see if you do
not thiuk it requires divine inspiration
to tell the truth, or even to find it out
after it is told. Truth is mighty hard
to get at, as you can see by perusing
the daily papers on the eve of an elec
tion.
There are certain things in the Bible
which, to my mind, bear the impress of
Divinity. A skeptic will tell you what
a race of old sinners we read about in
the Bible 1 Noah got drunk; David
was guilty of adultery and
murder; Solomon was an idolator, and
wrought folly; Peter denied his Lord,
and Judas sold him for thirty pieces of
silver; all these people that the Bible
talks to us so much about are a pretty
set of men ! Very well; what kind of
men do you expect to read about in the
Bible ? Noah got drunk. Is that
strange ? Did no one else ever get
druuk? Peter cursed and swore. Are
there not other men who curse and
swear? Judas, au apostle, sold his
Lord, who said he had chosen twelve
and one of them was a devil. Do you
not sometimes find a Judas in the
church even now-a-days ? One in
twelve was a thief and a traitor then;
and we need not be surprised if we find
about the same average now. But you
seem to think,that when you read about
a man in the Bible he is sure to be free
from all kinds of errors, frailties, faults
and sins. You have formed this idea
of men from reading in Sunday school
books about good children, who usual
ly die young; or perusing excollent
biographies, which, as you read them,
cause you to exclaim, "I wish I could
be as good as that person was; but I
never shall." No, I presume you never
will and if you knew the whole story
about the person you might not feel so
deeply on the subject.
Do you suppose that if the Bible had
been written by some learned doctor,
revised by a committee of eminent
divines, and published by some great
religious society, we should ever have
heard of Noah's drunkenness, of Abra
ham's deception, of Lot's disgrace, of
Jacob's cheating, of Paul and Barna
bas quarreling, or of Peter's lying,
cursing and dissembling ? Not at all.
The good men when they came to such
an incident, would have said, "There
is no use in saying anything about that.
It is all past and gone; it will not help
anything, and it will only hurt the
cause." [Applause.] If a committee
of such emmiuent divines had prepared
the Bible, you would have had a biog
raphy of men whose characters were
patterns of piety and propriety, instead
of poor sinners, as they were. Some
times a man writes his own diary and
happens to leave it for some one to
print after he is dead; but he leaves
out all the mean tricks he ever did, and
puts in all the good acts be can think
of: aud you read the pages, filled with
astonishment, and thiuk, "What a
wonderful good man he was!" But
when the Almighty writes a man's life
He tells the truth about him; and there
are not many persons who would want
their lives printed if the Almighty
wrote them.
Suppose a young man goes, say from
the country, down to the city. Per
haps he is a rich man's son, who has
had more money than was good for
him at home, and who comes to the
city to see the sights. He sails around
in dangerous waters, and slips into
various ports that are not exactly safe,
and the next morning finds him hauled
up before his Honor in the police court.
You get a morning paper, and you ex
pect to find the full particulars of the
case. You do, do you? You find a
paragraph on this wise: ,; A. certain
young man from the rural districts
came to town yesterday, sailed around
in different parts of the city, aud fell
into rather bad company. This morn
ing he was brought up before his
Honor, who admonished him to be
more careful in the future, and he de
parted a sadder and a wiser young
mau." This is the the kind of para
graph you will find in the papers when
a rich man's sonjeomee to the city, goes
on a spree, and has his head smashed
and his eye banged in a fight; you
don't get many particulars. But if he
is a poor vagabond, without a second
shirt to his back, you can get his name,
and perhaps his genealogy for genera
tions, and all the particulars of his case.
This is the way men write history; but
when the Lord undertakes to tell Hi*
story of a sinful man, he does not select
a poor, miserable beggar, and show
him up; he does not give even the
name of the thief on the cross, nor cf
the wretched outcast who bathed the
Saviour's feet with her tears, nor of the
guilty woman to whom he said,
"Neither do I condemn thee; go in
peace, and sin no more;" but he takes
King David from the throne, and sets
him down in sackcloth and ashes, and
wrings from his haart the ery, "Have
mercy upon me, O God, according to
thy loving kindness; according to the
multitude of thy tender mercies blot
out all my transgressions." And then
when he is pardoned, forgiven, cleansed
and made whiter than snow, the pen of
inspiration writes down the whole dark,
damning record of his crimes, and the
king on his throne has not power, nor
wealth, nor influence enough to blot the
page; and ii goes into history for infi
dels to scoff at for three thousand
years. Who wrote that ? [Continued
applause.]
You find a man who will tell the
truth about kings, warriors, princes,
and rulers to-day, and you may be
quite sure that he has w r ithin him the
power of the Holy Ghost. And a
book which tells the faults of those
who wrote, and which tells you that
"there are none righteous, no, not
one," bears in it the marks of a true
book; for we all know that men have
faults, and failings, and sins; and
among all the men whose lives are re
corded in that book, each man has
some defect, some blot, except one, and
that is "the man Christ Jesus."
Men love objections; and so they
say there are difficulties, and absurdi
ties, and errors, and contradictions in
the Bible. You have all heard such
assertions. Alter speaking once in the
city of Boston, an ex-minister came to
me and told me that tho Bible was not
true, for there was that story which
Moses told about the quails. Israel
lusted after flesh, and the lord sent
them quails to eat, and they fell by
the camp a day's journey on each side,
or over a territory forty miles across,
and they were two cubits deep on the
ground, and the Israelites ate them
for a full month. I have in my pos
session an infidel paper which was
published in Boston, in which there is
a column of arguments and figures on
this "quail story;" giving an esti
mate of the number of bushels of
quails that were piled up over the coun
try, and showing that when they were
divided among the host of Israelites,
each one would have 2,888,643 bushels
of quails, which they were to eat dur
ing the month; giving each poor Is
raelite 69, 620 bushels of quail to eat
at each meal for thirty days, and there
fore the Bible was not true! [Great
laughter and applause.] This is the
sort of food our skeptical friends love
to eat. That is the meat on which
these Cassars grow so wondrous great.
(Continued Next Week.)
Woolen Under-Clothing.
With regard to the sanitary import
ance of wearing woolen uuder-clothiug,
the London Lancet says :
The superior advantages of wearing
wool next to the skin are easily appar
ent ou reflection, They do not depend
merely on its greater warmth and close
ness of application. It is further cap
able, according to its texture and in
virtue of its composition, of better
adaptation in respect of temperature to
the needs of various climates and the
changes of the seasons than any other
dre6S material. Moreover, whether it
be fine or rough, dense or light, woolen
clothing, it is evident, exhibits a special
facility for absorbing and distributing
moisture. It is this property especial
ly which renders it the natural cover
ing of the constantly perspiring skin.
If one be engaged, for example, in ac
tive exercise of limb, a liueu fabric will
absorb what products, of transudation
it can till it is wet, but will leave much
moisture unabsorbed upon the clammy
surface, whereas a flannel, from its
more spongy nature will rest upon a
skin which it has nearly dried, aud be
but damp itself. It Ls obvious, then,
that iu the event of an after chill, and
this occurs in summer as in winter, the
body is, in the latter case, most favor
ably disposed to resist it. Flannel is
not less cleanly than linen, though it
may appear less white, and if the
wearer bathe daily it is surprising how
long it will retain its purity- The dis
advantage of skin irritation to which it
sometimes gives rise is usually asso
ciated with coarseness of quality or
freshness of manufacture, and is with
nearly all who have experienced it a
mere transient condition. Women, as
well as men, bnt above all children and
the aged, who are alike particularly
apt to take cold, should certainly adopt
a woolen material for their customary
under-garment. It is easily possible
to adjust the texture to the season, so
that it shall be warm enough in winter
and not too warm in summer.
in the Fashion. The
Diamond Dyes always do more than
they claim to do. Color over that old
dress. It will look like new. They
are waranted. 10c. at druggists.
Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington,
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—lt is easier for a woman to defend
her virtues against men than her repu
tation against women.
—Teeth-shaping or denticulation, as
the dentists call it, is the latest craze
in dentistry. By means of a liquid
application the teeth are softened and
pressed into desirable shape.
—A New London, Conn., whaler
has killed the largest whale ever
cuught. It yielded 168 barrels of oil,
and 2,300 pounds of whalebone. It
was killed in Cumberland inlet.
—A soft answer turneth away wrath,
but this is no reason why a man
should be continually exclaiming
'mush" while his wife is scolding.
-_An old proverb says that "care
will kill a cat." You may consign to
us immediately a few cars of "care"
'and dump it into our back garden.
What Rum Costs Those Who Co
not use it.
To count the cost ot rum to the coun
try from a dollar-and-cent standpoint
is to take the very lowest view of the
subject. The mother of a ruined son
would gladly give ten times what the
ruin cost, in money, to have her sou
restored to her, and esteem the dollar
aad-cent loss as nothing. The wife
cursed with a drunken husband would
be willing to continue in rags and
semi-starvation could she have her
husband restored as he was before he
was drawn into the fatal whirlpool and
morally wrecked. Hut rum has a
money side as well as a moral one, and
there are those who would consider
the money side, though they cared but
little for the other.
Rum is the heaviest burdeu the peo
ple have to bear, aud those who do not
use it are compelled to bear it with
those who do. It can be demonstrated
that rum costs the United States more
per day than did the support of the
armies in the rebellion. It costs the
country directly more than the entire
school and religious systems put to
gether. The sum total of its cost foots
up more than all other taxes combined.
It is the one great expense that out
weighs everything else.
The city of Toledo has a population
of TO.OOO. It supports 800 dealers in
alcoholic stimulants. We take Toledo
as an example, the proportion holding
good everywhere the traffic is free or
licensed.
To support these 800 places, there
must be paid out annually for liquor
not less than $2,500,000. Go over the
figures. Each saloon must average
$lO per day; they could not veil live
ou less. They do business every day
in the year, at least in this rum-ridden
city, which makes the grand total
$2,920,000 per annum. It is perfectly
safe to say that it will not fall below
$2,500,000.
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But the loss does not stop with the
mere loss of the money. Were the
money taken from the people and
dropped iuto the harbor it would be
better than to use it as it is being used.
A power for good, when properly used,
it becomes a positive curse when filter
ed through the gij-mills and beer
shop. It becomes then a positive, ag
gressive evil. It is not only wasted,
but it becomes the destroyer of those
who waste it. It not only absorbs the
proceeds of labor but it destroys the
power of labor. The workingman
whose Saturday night in a beer shop
has extended over the Sunday and
Sunday night, is in no condition to do
work of any kind on Monday. If he
works at all it is by fortifying himself
with more rum, under which he breaks
down before the weejc is half through.
No drunkard ever does a full week's
work; indeed the time comes as cer
tain as the rising of the sun, when
work at all is impossible. The drunk
is not lazy; rum has made him incapa
ble; semi-starvation accompanies the
half-working stage, during which the
family suffers from insufficiency of the
necessities of life, and worse follows.
In the fiual stage they hifve nothing,
and their care is another burden upon
the already rum-robbed communities
that harbor them.
Add to thid already too long train of
evils the cost of the police system and
the criminal courts, ninety per cent, of
which is chargeable to rum, and put on
the top of that the cost of penitentia
ries and jails, and some idea may be
had of what rum costs the people who
do not use it.
* * * No drinking man feeds
or clothes his family properly, or even
accumulates enough to build a house,
he does not even pay rent promptly,
and is never properly housed. The
necessities of life being impossible for
the families of such, of course the luxu
ries are as far away as the stars. In
such families there are never books,
magazines or newspapers, and what is
worse, education of the children is gen
erally impossible for want of decent
clothing, bringing up thousands in the
ignorance that leads to crime. The
drunkard of this generation inflicts a
curse upon the next.
We leave out all mention of the
woes unnumbered the poor victims of
rum have to endure—we only call at
tention to the loss sustained through
it by those who are not drunkards.
It is the simplest possible financial
proposition. Rum absorbs the money
that should go to the providing of the
necessities of life, thus robbing the
trader in those necessities. It destroys
the ability to labor, thus robbing the
commuuity of whatever benefit that
labor would be to it. It compels sober
men, who pay taxes, to support police,
jails, alms houses, penitentiaries, courts
and the other adjuncts of our very bad
civilization, all made necessary by
rum.— Toledo Blade.
Substitutes for Matches.
Countless accidents, as every one
knows, arise from the use of matches.
To obtain light without employing
them, and so wjthout the danger of
setting things on fire, an ingenious con
trivance is now used by the watchmen
of Paris in all the magazines where ex
plosive or inflammable materials are
kept. Any one may easily make a trial
of it. Take an oblong vial of the whit
est and clearest glass and put into it a
piece of phosphorus about the size of a
pea. Pour some olive oil, heated to
the boiling point, upon the phosphorus;
fill the vial about one-third full and
then cork it tightly. To use this novel
light remove the cork, allow the air to
enter the vial and then recork it. The
empty space in the vial will become
luminous, and the light obtained will
be equal to that of a lamp. When the
light grows dim its power cao be in
creased by taking out the cork and al
lowing a fresh supply of air to enter
the vial. In winter it is sometimes
necessary to heat the vial between the
hands, in order to increase the fluidity
of the oil. The aparatus thus made
may be used for s : x months. —Ch i< aqo
New*.
An Egg Factory.
"Do you niran to say that you made
that etrg without the assistance of a
hen ? " a-iked a reporter of a Newark egg
manufacturer.
"\es," he replied, "and if you wish
I will show you something of our pro
cess. Come."
He led me through a room in which
there were stored boxes upon boxes of
and into another large, cool room
in the rear. Kverything was clean
and neat. Several strange-lookiug
machines totally unlike anything 1 had
ever seen, stood in different parts of the
room. Six or seven men were opera
ting the machinery, which moved noise
lessly and with great rapidity. 1 fol
lowed my conductor to one end of the
apartment, where there were large tanks
or vats. One was filled with a yellow
compound, the second with a starchy
mixture, and the other was covered.
Pointing to these tie proprietor said :
"These contain the jelk mixture and
the white of an eg_-. We empty the
vats every day, so YOU can JUDIRE of the
business already. Let me show you
one of the machines. You see thev arc
divided into different boxes or recepta
cles. The first and second are the velk
and the white. The next is what we
term the skin-machine, and the last one
is the sheller, with drying trays. This
process is the result of many years ex
periment and expense. I first conceived
the idea of making a chemical aualysis
of an egg. After a long time I succeed
ed in making a good imitation of an
egg. I then turned my attention to
making the machinery, and the result
jou see for yourself. Of course it
would not be policy for me to explain
all the mechanism, but I'll give vou an
idea of the process. Into the first ma
chine is put the yelk mixture »
"What is that ?" I asked.
"Well, it's a mixture of Indian meal
corn-starch and several other ingredi
ents- It is poured into the opening in
a thick mushy state, and is formed by
the machine iuto a ball and frozen. I n
this condition it passes into the other
box, where it is surrounded by the
white, which is chemically the same as
the real egg. This is also frozen, and
and by a peculiar rotary motion of the
machine an oval shape is imparted to
it, and it passes into the next receptacle
where it receives the thin, flimy skin.
After this it has only to go through
the sheller where it gets its last coat
in the shape of plaster of paris shell, a
trifle thicker than the genuine article.
Theu it goes out on the drying trays,
where the shell dries at once and the
the inside dries out gradually. It be
comes, to all appearances a real egg."
"How many eggs can yon turn out
in a day ?'
"Well, as we are running now, we
turn out a thousand or so every hour."
"Many orders ?"
"Why, bless your soul, ves. We
can not fill one-half of our orders. All
we can make now are taken by two
New York grocers alone. We charge
sl3 per thousand for them, and they re
tail at all prices from 15 to 30 cents
per dozen. We sell only to the whole
sale houses. I suppose plenty of these
eggs are eaten in Newark as well as in
other places. Col. Zullick, Billy
Wright, Houest Andrew Albright, Joe
Heines, Judge Johnson, Judge Henry,
and all Newark's candidates for gov
ernor are living on them. They are
perfectly harmless, and as substantial
and wholesome as a real egg. The rea
son we made the machinery of wood is
because we found that the presence of
metal of any kind spoiled the flavor
aud prevented the cooking of the
eggs."
"Can they be boiled ?"
"Oh yes," and he called one of the
men. "Here Jim, boil this gentleman
an egg."
"Can they be detected?" I inquired,
while the bogus egg was being boiled.
"I hardly think any body would be
likely to observe any difference unless
he happened to be very well posted,
as they look and taste like the real
thing. Isy a little flavoring, we can
make them taste like goose or duck
eggs, of course altering the size.
They will keep for years. They never
spoil or become rotten, and being hard
er and thicker in their shells they will
stand shipping better than real eggs.
We calculate that in a few years we
will run the hens of the country clean
out of business, as oleomargarine has
driven out butter.
Safety Postage Stamps.
One of the great sources of loss to
the Government in the Post Office
Department is that occasioned by the
repeated use made of the same postage
stamps. The United States authori
ties have not yet succeeded in finding
an eraser which will be effectual with
out interfering with the body of the
letter or security of the envelope. Our
esteemed fellow citizen, Mr. Felix
Walker, has, as he thinks, with great
show of rtason, fouud the long desired
secret for which he has obtained a pat
ent. Ilis stamps are printed on fine
tissue paper, carefully prepared with
oil and mucilage. A coating of oil is
first spread upon the paper,
and beforo that is dry a coating of
mucilage is spread over the oiled
paper. The printing is done on the
mucilage and shows admirably on the
face of the paper. The result is that
the stamps cannot be eradicated and
therefore cann it be used twice. The
only way of loosening it from the en
velope is by moistening, awl then only
the tissue paper comes off, the printing
which is done on the mucilage—re
maining on the envelope. Mr. Walker
affirms that he has carried some of
these stamps in his pocket for a whole
year and they worked perfectly well
when used.— New Orleans Times-
Democrat.
—Even in the fiercest uproar of our
stormy passions, conscience, though in
her softest whispers, gives to the su
premacy of rectitude the voice, of an
undying testimony.
—Used to make money fast—Safety
vaults.
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