Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if … - Tryon Edwards

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Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

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Tryon Edwards (7 August 1809 - 4 January 1894) was an American theologian, author. and minister of the Second Congregational Church in New London, Connecticut, from 1845 to 1857, after having served in Rochester, New York.

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Alternative Names: EDWARDS, TRYON, REV. • Rev. Dr. Edwards • REV. TRYON EDWARDS

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Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument. - Tryon Edwards

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