Word: deafness
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Dates: during 1901-1901
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...seeds he scattered so lavishly, though many fell amid rocks and thorns, some would fall where they would yield fruit, "some thirty, some sixty, some an hundred fold;" through his prodigality of gift he saw the possibility of the prodigality of return. Marvelous words he uttered often went to deaf, unheeding ears, but once his "follow me" entered the heart of Simon Peter on the shore of Galilee, and the lowly fishermen became the saint on whom a mighty church has based its authority, a rock against which "the gates of hell shall not prevail:" and once again his words...