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title: 'Ichabod S. Spencer: What the World Needs'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2024-02-08
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2024-ichabod-s-spencer-what-the-world-needs
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# Ichabod S. Spencer: What the World Needs

“If the truths of Christianity were seconded by the pious lives of all her professed disciples, the unbelief of the world would soon cease. Private example of godliness is what the world most needs.” — [**Ichabod S. Spencer**](/authors/ichabod-spencer), *A Pastor*’*s Sketches; or, Conversations With Anxious Enquirers Respecting the Way of Salvation* (*First Series*) (1850, 1853), p. 62