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'TALMAGE’S lie Eminent Divine's Sunday Discourse. lubject: Tho OosihiI’i Trtiimpl,—Victories of the Christian Religion Depleted— Transformations Wrought by Christ’s Teachings—Drunkards Reclaimed. [Copyright, Loots Klopsch, 1890.) he WAsaisoTos, D. 0.—Tho antagonists of Christian religion are in this sermono* Jr. Tnlmage met in a very unusual way and the triumphs of the Gospel are deplet¬ ed. The text is Eftekiel xjci., 21, “He made his arrows bright, he consulted with Un- ages, he looked iu the liver.” Two modes of divination by which the king of Babylon proposed to And out the Will of God. Re took a bundle ot arrows, put them together, mixed them up, then It pulled doolded forth one, and by the insqrlptlon on what city be should first as- lault. Then an animal was slain, and by he lighter or darker oolfer of the liver the irlghter or darker prospect of success was nferred. That is the meaning of the text "He made his arrows bright, he consulted •with images, he looked In the liver.” Stupid delusion! Anil yet all tile ages have been filled with delusions. It seems as It the world loves to bo hoodwbiKod, the delusion |Of the text ouly n specimen of a vast number lof deceits practiced upon the huniun race. the hitter part of the last century Jo- Euanna Bouthcote oame forth pretending to have divine power, made prophecies, had ohapels built In her honor, and 100,000 dls- .ciples 'five came forward to follow her. About years before the birth of Christ Apol- iloniusi was born, and he came forth, and Jnfter flve years being speeehles 9 according ito the tradition, he , traised healed the siok, and the dead, and preached virtue, aud, ^according to the myth, having deceased, (was brought to resurrection. | itudes The of Delphio people; oracle the Pythoness deceived vast multl- Etho seated In feoD temple ot Apollo uttering a crazy Jar- from which the people guessed their pndividual jfortunes. or The national utterances fortunes or of mlafor- such were a mature that you could read them any way won wanted to read them, r But there are those who say that all these Ideluslons combined are as nothing oom- ipared with the delusion now abroad iu the jtvorld—the ion. That delusion delusion of has the to-day Christian 400,000,030 relig¬ fcupes. It proposes to enolrole the earth rvith its girdle. That which has been called ki delusion has already overshadowed the (Appalachian fend range on tills side of the sea, It has overshadowed the Balkan and (Caucasian ranges on the other side of the feea. It has conquered England and the fcnited States. This champion delusion, this hoax, this swindle of the ages, as It has been called, has gone forth to conquer pe Islands of the Pariflo, and Melanesia fend Micronesia and Malayan Polynesia liave already surrendered to the delusion, ‘Yea, pelago, it has conquered the Indian archi¬ and Borneo and Sumatra and Cel- lebes and Java have fallen under its wiles. people, In the Fiji Islands, where there are 120,000 jlupes 102,000 have alrtady become the of this Christian religion, and if tilings If go on as they are now going on and thelDfluence of this great hallucination If the ages cannot be stopped It will swal¬ low the globe. Supposing, then, that ■ihristianlty Is the delusion of the cen- Buries, as some have what pronounced it, I pro¬ pose to show you has been accom¬ plished by this ubimera, this fallacy, this ■oax, this swindle of the ages. ■ And, in the Arst place, I remark that this fclusion of the Christian religion has made ■underfill Rter. transformations of human ohar- I will go down the aisle of any ■uroh ■her in Christendom, and I will And on side that aisle those who were once ■ofiigate, ■clean of profane, action, drunken uncleah of speech and ■ and lost. But the power of this delusion of the Chjrls- tain religion they have been completely transformed, and now they are kind and amiable and loving and useful. Everybody sees tho change. Under the power of this ■•eat Brmer hallucination they have quit their Kund associates, aud, whereas they ones their chief delight among those who gambled and swore and joy raced horses, now they And their chief among those who go to prayer meetings and churches, so ■omplete lamilies is the delusion. Yea, their own have noticed it—the wife has no¬ ticed Bioney it, the children have noticed it. The Poo that went for rum now goes for Its and for clothes and for education. ■ e Is a new man. AH who know him say ■iere has been a wonderful change, ■'bat is the cause of this change? This ■reat ion. hallucination of the Christian relig¬ Shut There is as much difference between he is now and what he once was as Between love a rose and a nettle, as between a and a vulture, as between day and light. I Tremendous delusion] ond of the most ad- fcired Admipal Farragut, early men of tho American navy, be- Pame Ind, a victim ol this Christian delusion, long seated not long before hfs death at la Branch, he was giving some friends account of his early life. He said: ■My father went down in behalf of tne ■ntted States Government to put an end It loy Aaron Burr’s rebellion. I was a cabin and went along with him. I could ■year like an old salt. I could gamble in Mreiy f-iclcedness style ol gambling. I knew that all time the there was at Bboard. One day my father cleared every¬ body Roked out of the cabin said: except ‘David, myself what aud the door. He Be you going to do? What are you going ■ B be?’ ’Well,’I said,‘father, tlie I am going follow the sea.’ ‘Follow sea and be ■poor, Bid cuffed miserable, about the drunken world, sailor, and die kicked of a Bver Kid. iu a foreign hospital.’ ‘Oh, I nol’ I Bead ‘Father, I will not be that; will the quarter deck and oommand as Biu Bo, do.’ ‘No, David,’ my father said; Bples David, a person that has your prin- Bead and your bad habits will never the quarter deck or command.’ My ■tiler llm, went out and shut the door I after will and I said then, ‘I will change, lever swear again, I will never again,’ drink ■gain, lentlemen, I will never gamble I and, lept by the help of God, have those three vows to this time. I soon Ifter lecided that became a Christian, eternity.' and that my fate for time and for I Another captive of this great Christian’ ■elusion. There goes Saul of Tarsus on lorseback at full gallop. Where is he go- Iig? letter To play destroy spell than Christians. to stand He and wants watoh no ■10 hats and coats of the murderers who Ire loes massacring God’s This children. Is There afoot, the same man. time ho where is he going now? Going on the road P) Ostia to die for Christ. They tried to ■hip it out of him, they tried to scare It lut lim of him, they thought by putting they him would small give enough of It on ■let, and denying him a cloak, and oou- leraning lim hlm'as a streets; criminal, but and they howling could at lot through the of him. and they could not fweat freeze it out oould it out of him, and they not Pound it out of him, so they tried the sur- lery Ig of the sword, and one summer day in Kst he was decapitated. 4 ? Perhaps the mightl- intelleot of the 6000 years of tho world’s Ixisteuce luped hoodwinked, religion. cheated, cajoled, by tbe Christian about I Ah that is the remarkable thing this delusion of Christianity! It Gather overpow¬ the ers the strongest Intellects. ferities, secular and religious, ol thiB cen- lury together and put a vote to them as to bhioh is the greatest book ever written, tad by large majority they will say, Fparadise Lost?” Lost.” of the Who fools wrote who believed "Paradise in One Frank- his Bible, John Milton. Benjamin ln “urrenderad to this delusion, if you may udge from the letter that he wrote to Thomas Paice begging him to destroy "The tge of Beasou” In manuscript and never e’ It go into type, and writing afterward, n his old days, "Of this Jesus of Nazareth have to sav that the system of morals ie left and the religion He has given us re the bast things the world has overseen r is likely to see.” Patriok Henry, the • *rr~r~y T' '•PM*****-.- ■— eleotrlo efiampl<Sn of liberty, enslaved by thl* delusion, so that be says, "The book worth all other books pot together It the Bible." Benjamin Rush, the leading physi¬ ologist and anatomist ot his day, the greet medical salentlst—what did he say? "The only true and perfeat religion Is Christian¬ ity." Isaac hts Newton, the leading did phllosor nher ot time—what thl4 he s»vf That man surrendering to delu¬ sion ot Christian religion, philosophy crying out “The subllmest on earth Is the philosophy of the Gospel." David Brewster, at the pronunciation of whose name every scientist the world over uncovers bis head, David Brewster saving, "Oh, this religion has been a great light to me, a very, great light all my days!” Presi¬ dent Thiers, the great Frenoh statesman, acknowledging that Lord he prayed God, when he said, “I Invoke believe." the In whom I able am glad to to the Hon, David able Livingstone, to conquer able conquer the panther, to conquer the savage, > et conquered by this delusion, this ballad- P H'lon, this groat swindle of the ages, so when they And him dead they And him on his knees. William E. Gladstone, the strongest Intellect In England, fallacy; unable to resist this chimera, this religion, this de¬ lusion ot the Christian went to the house of God every Sabbath and often, at the Invitation of the rector, read the prayers to the people. If those mighty in¬ tellects are overborne is there for by this and delusion, what chance you for me? Besides that, I have noticed that Arst rate steadfastness inflde's cannot proclamation be depended on for in the of their sentiments. Goethe, a lending skeptio, was SO in wrought upon by he this Christianity that a weak moment cried out, “lly belief In the Bible has saved me in my J lit- exary aud moral life.” Rousseau, one of the most eloquent champions of inAdelity, spending his whole Ufa “The warring against Christianity, cries out, majesty of the Scriptures amazes me." Aitemont, the notorious inAdel, one would think he would have been safe against the delusion of the Christian religion. Oh, nol After talking against Christianity all his days, In Ms last hours he cried out, "Oh, Thou blasphemed but most indulgent Lord God, hell itself is a refuge if It hide me from Thy frown!” Voltaire, the most talented infidel the world ever saw, writing 250 publica- Christian!ty,* nMsf ( himself wcflUd jiotorious libertine of tho century—one have thought he could have been depended InAde H t y am! 1 rT t h^wa rVgtd nsft h is* t arid- ble ohtmera, this delusion ot the GoBpel. But no; in his last hour he asks for Christian burial, and asks »hat they give him the sacrament of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why, you cannot de- pend upon these Arst rate lnAdels; you sss£s^sa«SJiss%ss Paine, the god of modern skeptics, his birthday celebrated in New York and Bos- ton with great enthusiasm—Thomas Paine, the paragon ot Bible haters-Thomas Paine, about whom his brother infidel, William Carver, wrote in a letter which I have at my house, saying that he drank a d\sho^e?t to^pay l for U—Thomas'p'aluel the adored of modern infidality-Thomas Paine, who stole another man’s wife In England and brought her to this country -Thomas Paine, who was so squalid and so loatlisome and so drunken and so prof- ligate and so beastly iu Ms ditch, habits, some- times picked out of the out—Thomas sometimes Paine, too filthy to he picked thought one who would have that he oonld have been depended on for stead- fastness against this great delusion. But no. In Ul 3 dying hour he begs the detoMn quaLing'deMsiou U3 Mr U oo^U M?he f e 0 rin“ Christian er de^slo?:a religion. 0 r r t f M Yoa, it goes ou. It Is so impertinent, and it is so overbearing, this cnimera oi the Gospel, that, having conquered the great picture galleries ot the world, tho old mas- ters and the young masters, It is not satis- ded until it has conquered the music of the magnl'A' O tl itivM a^d'see^vhat , 0 nt muMcftl f 0 ere the great performances and learn that 1684 ° f ““ subjects. Deluded lawyers—Lord Cairns the ex-fd- high- est legal authority In England, the viser of the throne, spending Jesus Ms vacation in preaching the Gospel Scotland. of Frederick Christ to the Door people of T, Frelingbuysen, of New Jersey, once Secre- Ury of State, an old-fashioned Evangelical Christian, an elder in he Reformed SX United States, WlK?E2'v/=t“,.‘ dying deluded Methodist- ! S‘ 1 £ a or Congregationalist. Earl of Kintore dy- ing a deluded Presbyterian. Yes, this delusion of the Christian re- ligion shows itself in the faet that it goes to those who are in trouble. Now,- it is bad enough to cheat a man when he is well and when he is prosperous, but this re- sffys; 11 ‘“You welTagain^frer awtfilm wfiUbe land°where You are going into a there are no coughs, and no pleurisies, and no eon-' sumptions, and no languishing. awful Take courage nnd bear up.” Yea, this chimera of the Gospel comes to the poor, and it says to them, “You are ou your way to vast estates aud to dividends al- ways declarable.” This delusion of Chris- tianlty comes to the bereft, and it talks of reunion before the throne and of the eessa- tion ot all sorrow. And then, to show that this delusion will stop at absolutely noth¬ ing, It goes to the dying bed and fills the man with anticipations. How much better it would be to have him die without any more hope than swine and rats and snakesl SUovet ihim under! That is all. Nothing more left ot Mm. He will never know any¬ thing again. Shovel Mm unuerl The soul Is only a superior part of the body, and when the body disintegrates the soul dis¬ integrates. Annihilation, vacancy, ever¬ lasting blank, obliteration. dootrlne 3Vhy not pres¬ ent all that beautiful to the dying instead of coming with this hoax, this swindle of the Christian religion, and fill¬ ing the dying man with anticipations of another life until some in the last hour shouted, have olapped their hands, and some and have and some have sung, some have been so overwrought with joy that they oould only look ecstatic? Palace gates opening, they thought—diamond coronets fiasntng, hands beckoning, or¬ chestras actually believing sounding. they Little ohlldren their departed dying saw parents, so that although the little chil¬ dren had been so weak aud feeble nnd siok for weeks they oould not turn on their dy¬ ing pillow uncontrollable at the last, they in a paroxysm of rapture sprang to their feet and shouted, “Mother, catch me; I am coming.” And to show the Immensity of this delu¬ sion, this awful swindle of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, I open a deathbeds hospital, and I bring Into that hospital tbe of a great many Christian people, and I take you by the hand, and I walk up and down the wards of that I hospital, “Dying and Stephan, I ask a what few questions. ask, Jesus, have you to say?” “Lord, receive my spirit.” “Dying John Wesley, what have you to say?” “The best of all is God is with us.” “Dying Edward Payson, what have you to say?” “I fioat In a sea of glory.” “Dying John Bradford, what have you to say?” “If there be any way of go¬ ing to heaven on horsebaok, or lu a fiery chariot, O Lord, it is this.”} God. what delusion, my my a what a glorious delusion! Submerge me with it, fill my eyes and ears with it, put it under my bead for a pillow—this delusion spread derneath it over for me for outspread a canopy, wing, put roll it un¬ it me an over me in ocean surges 10,000 fathoms deep. If infidelity, and If atheism, and if annihilation are a reality and the Chris¬ tian religion is a delusion, give me the de¬ lusion. Well, we will soon understand it alL, Your life and mine wilt soon be over. Wtt will come to the Inst bar of the music, to the last act of the tragedy, last tothe line last and page of the book—yea, to the and it wilt tl the last word—and to you me either be midnoon or midnight! “ One Year's Seeding, Nine Years' Weeding &{.egtecied impurities In your blood nvitl sow seeds of disease of which you may never get rid. If your blood is even the least bit impure, do not delay, but take HoofTs Sarsaparilla at once. In so doing there is safety; in delay there Is danger. 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The censor Cato promul¬ gated a law prohibiting married peo¬ ple from kisging eaA other in the presence of their daughter. Consolation. Mias Goodblood (savagely)—So that fortune teller told you your marriage would be a failure? Mrs. Highflyer —Yes, dear; but don’t you go to worrying! She said my sec¬ ond and third marriages would run out just splendid.—Judge. To Cure Constipation Forever. Tfth« Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. If C. C. C. fall to cure, drugglstsrefund money. Mexico has 7,500 miles of railroad, having added 440 during 1898. F1U permanently cured. No DU or nervous- ness a fter first day’s xise of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerre Restorer. #2 trial bottle and St.. treatise Phrla.. free. Pa. Dr. R. H. Klin*, Ltd.. 981 Arch Planlalion Chill Cure is Guaranteed j To cure, or money refunded by your merchant, so why not try it? Price 50c. HE LOST ALL. I ItKladlag flint Winsome Creator#, the Lovely Bird? Jones. It was the first perfect day of the glad springtime. The warm sun bright- j ened the country landscape, and the odor of opening apple blossoms came uj>*« the laden atmosphere. The lazy clouds floated dreamily lii the sky overhend, chiefly because they could not go afoot nor on the trolley cars. The rural roads were smooth under the hammer of innumerable wheels, and Clarence Wheeler had stolen Blrdy j .3ones from her haughty Soho home ; for a ramble on his '97 tandem among the highways of the township. Stopping from their run, they rested beneath a big ook tree which over- hied hung in a the wayside wood spring. lot below Cowbells the mead- tin- ) ow, and little lambs with wobbly legs ' three sizes too big for them gamboled on the short green grass. On a broad. flat _ stone that looked . down , upon the crystal water Blrdy spread the lunch they carried in the tandem box, and Clarence brought water In a romantic can that had been found hard by. The soft winds toyed with the girl’s bleached tresses, which streamed over her face like a photogravure picture of the west wind to illustrate Longfel- low’s poems. Her cheeks Aushed with t'' p vigor of exercise and robust health, and when tbe young man approached her from the spring his whole thought was centered upon tha winsome beauty of the divine creature. He sat down by her side. His soul drnnk Qr ”" k j D n th th * . C n ot 0 f “ ie Dh.turp P lLture - She looked , — up e.......... from , the can of pot- ted beef that she was opening, with a smile of confident approval on her young face . Suddenly her eye kindled and the rasy flush of young woman- hood gave way to a ghastly pallor. Her HP curled in scorn. Her classic head was lifted in auger. “Merciful heaven!” shrieked the young man. “Tell me, dearest girl, h t . m tl tue mn uuiuei ttev?” s But she stepped back, and, striking gj P oln . . e d - her , ..... finger at him and said c „!,i in t that would wither a load of hay: “All is lost, Clarence Wheeler; you ? „ sitting lttin _ , In n the fh „ pie. , ,,, I pittshur- ittSDurg rlmes - An maun’, A^TSi^nu^ent. H. P. Myton, United States Indlnn aRent . at . " lllt0 Eocks ,, , - „. Ltah . ‘ , has among the Ute Indians on his reserva- i tion a man who for twenty / 1 years ! has lo e „ awful penance to atone for the , accidental killing of his mother, but who, in spite of what he has passed j through, ______k thinks that he v. has not yet ___ : suffered sufficiently for bis transgres- slon ‘ The kllUn * Cntlrely accidental ‘ and the tribe held the Indian blame- less, and did not punish him. His con- , however was his “ accuser accuser, and a d ' ’ “ ’ it held him up as a criminal. When his first burst of grief was over he imposed a harsh sentence up- on himself. He made a solemn vow aot w/arMothinu'ofenter ear cloth g 0 entet a a Z"o house, tepee or other dweding. For more than twenty years the red- skin has kept bis word. He sleeps In ftnpn n i r -ndth n a piece or flr» an old oia blanket about thre0 f f et 5quare hung over him on some sticks. He is en- Ore,, „,,Je. ; Mr. Myton says that the Indian lies ! on the ground through the winter, j even when the thermometer goes as , zero.—New low as 40 degrees below 1 York Journal, The Referendum. ..j relnember the referendum here j n j n ,]i ana lyfien I was a small boy.” . , ’rr . j h )ived in the state all my me. » “You have a very poor memory. Didn’t you ever get into a dispute with ... another , boy and d finally to agree on . rAO leave the decision to the crowd? —In - dianapolis Journal, Do Your Feet Ache and Burn ? Shake into your shoes Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder fox the feet. 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Winslow’s Soothing Syrnp for children teet.hing.softens tbe gums, redneesinflamma- bottle. lion.allays pain.cures wind colic. 25c. a Piso’s Cure for Consumption relieves the most obstinate coughs.—R February ev. D. Buchmuel- lkr, Lexington, Mo.. 24, 1894. primitively conscientious. Pfo Hesitation Her© Abont Givln Thou# Prtifnis Bnok. “ 'Taint everybody that’s got such right feelings ns Mally Potter and her nu; I will say that for the Potters, even If our family uren't going to be connected, nfter all." Mrs. Roberts was speaking to her next-door nelgb- bor, Miss Kllknbeth Sprawle. ‘’They're honest as the day I kno w that,” said Miss Sprawle, "and I only hope your Ned will find another girl as good as Sally.” "There’s not a mite of hard feeling betwixt Ned and Sally.’’ answered j Mrs. Roberts; "they’re good friends still, only they made a mistake got- ting engaged. They were too young to know thelp own minds, and Mrs. Pot- J ter and I both take blame that we j didn’t counsel them to wait. But that Isn’t what I was going to tell you. You remember that sprigged muslin | dress pattern that Ned gave „ bally when the engagement came out?” Miss Sprawle nodded assent. "Well,” continued Mrs. Roberts, “It being so hot last summer, Sally had It made up and wore it, as you probably know, but not enough so but what 'twouM have given excellent wear this year if they’d been married. Well, as soon as Sally and Ned decided to break off Mrs. Potter come over, and nothing would do but I should tell her just what the material would cost! "I hated to, but she would have It. and at last I told her Ned paid $0 for it; and to-day Sally brought over tbe money in an envelope, and there was not only the $0, but 36 cents interest for the year! “I told Sally that there weren’t many folks thnt would have thought of pay- ing 6 per cent. Interest in such a case, but she was real surprised, nnd said ’twas only what was right. Now, what do you think of that?” “Xod never’ll find another such, I’m .fwiiin aiiaiu. saiu mi« auss WjwI, r>pra\% ie, auu end Mr* Aire. Roberts agreed with her.—Y'outh’» 0w “ Hir s,„ r lli.odviiit IJlsauvantage. two Maud That’s all bosh 1 If you had ?.“ 1 k 1 U Walsinnham from \ |-, 8MUft . you yo n could have done it. I’cl like to see him kiss me! Gertrude-I suppose you would,but , never wdl He told me your face had tn it the dignity of antiquity. As for t01 keening keeping him nim from irom kissing Kissing me, me, I su PP 0Se I might have been ab.e to so if it hadn’t been necessary for me to take both hands to get my veil «P- -Chic ago dunes-tlera n.,.u ld. A Doctor’s Advice Free! About Tetterlne, Dr. M. L. Fielder of Eclec- Le lor't^r.^frheum^zema trouble8 Send r> 0 c in stamps tor a box of tt, ! postpaid, to tne manufacturer, J. T. Shnptrlne, keeplt. ! bavaunah, Ga„ If your druggist doesn’t The total area, of the coal fields in the world is e -‘ tirpate d at <n - 8005quare mli e *' Don’tTobacco Spit r.nd Smoke YourUi« Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mas- j fctro ng. All druggists, 50c or *1. Cure guaran ! r-ieriiug '***■ Re ^Tdv medy Co Co„ Chicago Chicago or or New N ew rtrk ok. As many as 4,061 muscles have been counted in tbe body of a moth. w PMA 1 ' i ! ' | Does your head ache? Pain back of your eyes? Bad taste in your mouth? It’s your liver! Ayers Pills are liver pills. They cure constipation, liver headache, dyspepsia, and all 25c. All druggists. Want your moustache or beard a beautiful brown or rich "blacTc? Th en use BUCKINGHAM’S DYE 60 CT8. OF DRUOaiSTS, OR W. P. HALL A CO. NASHUA, N._H. GOLDEN CROWN LAMP CHIMNEYS Are the best. A«h for them, Cos, u» more than common chimneys. All dealer*. PITTSBURG GLASS CO., Allegheny, Pa. College of Dentistry. DENTAL DEPARTMENT Atlanta College of Physicians aad Sntgeotii Oldbst College in Htate. Thirteenth An¬ nual Session opens Oct. 3; closes A Be 11 30tb. Those contemplating the study of ntlstry should write for catalogue. Address 8. W. FOSTER, Dean. 62-63 Inman Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. WANTED AGENTS for our Cotton Book ; it begins at 8 c. and runs to 11c.: figures the 16ths and 20ths from 300 to 700 pounds; a $4.00 book ior only 99c. It sells like “hot cakes;” terms liberal. Also for the Bible Looking Glass. It teaches the Bible by Illustrations; agents making from £4.00 to $10.00 per day. Writ© to-day. J. Jj. NICHOLS & CO., Atlanta, Ga. MENTION THIS PUPERST* m HI DR. MOFFETT’S I Aids Digestion, TEETHINfl Regulates the Bowels, f tin Mr* . ASA/J“a! Bowel Children Troubles of Any of Age. to fe « TEETHIN6 POWDERS «■» Coats Only 36 Cents. Ask Your Druggist for It If not kept by druggists mail 25 cents to C# JT. MOFFETT, ME. !>., ST. LOUIS, MO. p a in Conquered, Health Re- stored by Lydia E. 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