FROM the soil of the monastic life, which might seem, for many reasons, to have been unfavorable to such a development, there sprang and bloomed some of the rarest flowers of Christian poetry. There ...

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The four-part harmonies of old gospel hymns will ring through Hartselle First United Methodist Church on Saturday night.

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