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29419
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English
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The Wilderness and Paradise in the History of the Church
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Church History
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March 1959
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28
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3-24
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In the present address on the significance of the wilderness concept in church history it is appropriate to allude once again, by way of introduction, to John Mason Peck. A certain Presbyterian minister, who had come recently into Illinois, later recalled the following incident. Making his way over the lonely prairies, interspersed here and there with patches of timber, he was arrested by the sound of an axe, and upon observing a woodman nearby, called to him with the question, "What are you doing here, stranger?" "I am building a theological seminary," was the reply. "What, in these barrens?" "Yes," resounded the woodman, "I am planting the seed." The planter in the wilderness was John M. Peck. [From the text]