Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what i… - Henry Clay Trumbull

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Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to hear what God would tell us on that very point.

Henry Clay Trumbull

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Henry Clay Trumbull (1830 – 1903) was an American clergyman who became a world famous editor, author, and pioneer of the Sunday School Movement.

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