Chaff Separated From The Wheat

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Wimmer Wednesday. The devil tries all kinds of ways to harm us. Yet the material loss in such cases is always replaced by spiritual gain, in that the proven ones reveal themselves and the chaff is separated from the wheat.

TO RUDOLPH VON OBERKAMP
St. Vincent, September 18, 1857

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