The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 10, 1904, Image 2
A SEMON FOR SUNDAY
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A DISCOURSEIENTITLED '"CHRISTIANS
OUTSIDE THE CHURCH"
The He v. TCobert MacPonahl ExprMias
the View That to He a Believer ia
Christ is Not Different i roin lieing a
IteJiever in ."Man.
"Brooklyn, X. Y.?"Christians outside
the Church" "was the subject of the sermon
Sunday morning by trie Rev. Robert
liacDona'd, pastor oi the Washington Avenue
Baptist Church. It was the first of a
i series of five sermons. The text was from
John x. it>: "Other sheen 1 have which
are no: of this fold." Mr. Mac-Donald
sard:
. So important and many sided a subject
as this must be looked at from more than
one view point. Numberless are the questions
to oe considered. Numberless the
opinions favorable and unfavorable, true
and false, to be confirmed in these sermons
or repudiated. Numberless the people
interested in so practical and personal
a question, some of whom love the church
be*ter than life: others of whom hate the
.charen more than any other institution
in existence; some who trace their loftiest
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aspirations, mcir deepest mowimn
holiest desires back to her as a fond mother
who lives to nourish her chiidren with
her own rich life; others who have never
received the least benefit therefrom, at
which they are conscious and boldly assert
that little^ benefit to humanity ever
emerged from h'cr portals. Some go so far
as to make the church synonymous with
Christ's kingdom, and maintain that to
be a member of the one is to be a member
of the other, and consequently yield to her
a fanatical reverence. Others swing clear
to the other extreme and consider the
church nothing better than the product
of a jealous rivalry for pre-eminence over
other institutions of earth, else the expression
in wood and stone of overwrought
sensibilities. Therefore, the monument of
a most irrational superstition. While an
innumerable many identify themselves
with the church because they believe it to
be a beneficent institution ordair.ed of
Cod. without which the world would be
morally and spiritually impoverished, and
through v.i icu the spirit is working tor
the redemption of humanity, in ihich divine
strength can be had for the ills of
life.
I desire that our starting point in these
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<H.Si_U3->.UIlo tnuuiu uc ill 1A1V1 V>1 ivniivu^
toleration. As love is the centre of tlie
Christian system, so must it be the motive
in every church claiming to be a Christian
chruch. As Christ our Master was tolerant
ox and charitable toward those who
were not numbered among the twelve
disciples and iortv apostles, so must we
as His followers be tolerant in thought,
word, act, to those not of our number, and
outside our communion. There is greater
need of toleration to-day than at any previous
period <>f the world's history. The
church of to-day is more advanced than
the church of yesterday. Its intelligence
is greater; its light clearer; its affinity
with the Holy Spirit more personal; its
hold upon the cross of Christ, that power
of redemptive love, sacrificing itself even
unto death, stronger. The church of tiie
' twentieth century ought to be. and shame
upon us if it is not. more spiritual than
the church of the thirteenth century, or
even than the church of the nineteenth
century. ' 1
But not only in view of our superior
piritual enlightenment, also in view of i
pH cur peculiarly complex state of living
should we be tolerant. It Js the age of
differentiation and of classification. Every
significant fact of life has been forced to
ubmit to division and subdivision to an :
mazing extent. Look, for instance, at ]
education. Trace it through the modern
university curriculum. Contrast it with <
the most comprehensive collegiate institu- i
tion of a century ago. You are over- ]
whehned with the multitudinous depart- |
jnents. and subdepartments and branches
of instruction, ana professional chairs. All '
these necessary, you say, to educate the 1
youth. To adequately impart knowledge,
to meet the ever increasing intellectual de- '
mand? Yes. The renaissance that called '
Europe from its dark ages of intellectual lumber
has rot yet spent its force. Meas- 1
" ure the term medicine, or surgery wuu me
imposing stature of the general practi- 1
tioner of twenty years ago. The stature i
is no longer imDOsing. The specialist of 1
a single bodily function is more imposing 1
bow. And for the human body the work j
of the one has been divided into the skill i
of the hundreds and each unit in the vast '
aggregate is more authoritative than the
one. The term philosophy no longer tee- j
ognizes the old vague divisions of moral
and intellectual. Each division has been
differentiated, and each differentiation sug- '
gests to the mind content and comprehen- i
aiveness, richer and more compact than 1
the original classification from which it ;
aprang. Metaphysics, theism, idealism,
empricism, economics, sociology, psycho!- '
ogy, biology, and many more are the terms '
now familiar to our thought. And how
vast the field of consciousness covered by 1
any one of these significant terms. Eco- i
nomics. a very modern term for instance i
postulates for us; the land question; the
tenement house problem, the theory of
wealth, industrial organization, all socialistic
and communistic relation.
The same in jurisprudence, in commerce
and trade, in everything of worth. The
* difference between the big department i
store and the little trader illustrates the
idea. Yet how surprised we are that we
Bbould nave wanaerca reugiousjy iar
atield from the primitive apostolic church,
with our highly differentiated credal and
ritual expression?, our numerous ecclesiastical
orders, our multiplicity of organisation.
Bless you, it only snows wc avc
elive and growing and anxious to apply
the gospel of Jesus to all sorts and conditions
of men. The worldly minded claim
that denominational ism is distracting and
sigh for a Christian unity that will swallow
up all religious divisions. But, believe
mo, denominationalism m\kes more for
the glory of Christianity than for its
shame. The only shame about it all is
that denominationali-m at times nurtures
i\ spirit of l'harisceism that sees no God
in any other division oi the Christian ioid
than its own. It has been on^y a few
years since the medical students of Harvard
tVllowshipped the aspirant for veterinary
honors. The term "horse doctor"
was the term of salutation. The veterinary
student, as J he student of dpntistry.
was occupied with such inferior subject
matter. Ye*, but necessary s.ibjcct matter.
So of the Angelican churches and the
non-conformists of England. The one is
poor stuff to the other, tolerated only at
tiie point of ta::atip:i to support their
ochoois. Similar intolerance iva- felt toword
trie great Booth movement in Ainer- I
ica by all the ehurehes. because that movement
ignored their cut and dried ecclesiastical
method* and brought mto requisition
the public square and the secular
\ fca'l if by any means they might .save some
~S?^ciun:t hes could not reach. The same
intolerance is now characterizing u.s toward
that growing, so called. I'hristiau
Science movement. When will we sec the
"powers for good" that arc ordained of
God? When will wc believe that any movement.
however erroneous in nineteen
points of test, if adapted in its twentieth
point unto the blessing of men, is worthy
of our tolerance, even our sympathetic regard.
Even religious bodies quarfel among
themselves in defining orthodoxy, and denominational
respectability, instead of
praying together for the salvation of the :
world. No wonder Christians outside the
church pass bv on the other side of the
road when Christians inside the church
forget the purpose of their existence. The
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thumbscrew, rack, fagot and stake are
looked back upon as relics of a barbaric
age, but their spirit still lives. Every one
of the leading denominations have within
ten years either persecuted, else made it
very unpleasant for some intrepid thinker
who saw more clearly and spoke more
fearlessly than tlie rank and lib*. The
Methodist Church in our leading New England
eity is to-day exalting the spirit of
the Pharisees instead of the spirit of the
Wesley* in trying to excommunicate its
leading scholar, just as Pre-J'yterinaism a
few years ago in persecuting its chief
scholar went back dangerously near the
standard of 35"? years ago, raised by its
illustrious ancestor. John Calvin, who in
loo3 burned Servctus at the stake in (leneva
for doubting the equality of the persons
of '"the Trinity"' and the validity of j
infant baptism. Christ dealt more lovingly
with heretics. To Thomas lie unveiled |
His side and loved him into the r.ecessarv
belief. Phariseeism. on the other hand,
crucified Christ and stoned Stephen to
death. Loving as brethren those within
the church: tolerant as Christians toward
those without is the ideal that should rule.
How refreshing to reflect upon such a
passage of Scripture as that which stands
at the head of this sermon. It is a plea
for religious toleration and sets before us
a standard of religious liberty it would be
well to live up to. We arc so inclined to
become narrowed in our views of truth:
we are so prone to live under the shelter
of some creed that the vistas of truth
stretching ahead of us evervwhere become
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xidx fuw aim niuuvu, cum uvtvtv ?. v.
aware of it the peculiar dogma we cherish
or the certain fact we advocate is magnified
into identification with the truth itself.
There is at least danger here. Thus,
how needful to he often carried out into
the broad held the Gospel opens up. Look
at the s^eue revealed here. Jesus is having
another of His oft-recurring talks with
the Pharisees; but. as of old. they do not
understand Him. He is a fanatic, or at
best, a stubborn partisan, who, while professing
to lead them into larger freedom,
seems only to break up their honored institutions.
So this peculiar saying falls
from His lips. As He speaks how precious
the outlook. There He leads His followers
through the old loved fields, out under
the blue sky. their life and liis identified,
bound together by a common fidelity of
truth. But even this freedom seems narrow
in view of what is yet to come. These
are Mv sheep, He says, and for them I lay
down My life; but also other sheep I have
which arc not of this fold, and as we contemplate
the words, the range of our vision
is extended, the fields through which
they pass widen, the visible horizon that
hemmed us in lifts, the blue dome of the
heavens expands until we see all truth
loving souls everywhere, known by many
a different name, coining in as the sheep
fold opens to receive them. And we turn
our steps homeward, resolving in future to
be more tolerant for the Master's sake.
A few weeks ago an attendant upon our
church, a lover of truth, a believer in
Christ, but who had never made an open
profession of religion, asked me what I
thought constituted a i^nnsiian, .inn 11 i
lid not thinlc it meant to b? a church
member, and a Baptist Church member. It
was that earnest question that called forth
those sermons. What constitutes a Christian?
No progress can be made in our diseussion
until we ?cttlc that question. Is it
to be a communicant of any church? Is it
to subscribe to any creed? A hundred
times no! All trustworthy sources make it
to be a believer in Christ. What do
you mean by belief in Christ? Well, what
ilo you mean when you tell a person you
believe in him. that you believe he is a
good citizen, a faithful husband, a loving
father? You may believe in him as all
that, yet not be willing to trust him with
a dollar out of your sight, or open your
home to liini as a ?riend. You honor him
not most unless willing to trust him with
money uncounted, your good name, the
very secrets of your heart. A belief that
does not express itself in confidence does
not count for much. All else is cold, impersonal
opinion. You must not offer
Christ less than you would your friend. A
belief in the historic Christ only never
saved a soul, any more than a belief in
Caesar or Luther or Washington, even
though you believe Him as more than a
teacher sent from God. more than a pro-V-i
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CVCU Hie VCiy ca?iuiu ui UIC nvnu.
Just as friendship as more than an intellectual
opinion, even a possession of the life.
Just as love, the divine essential in nil
true livinar, without much society, is a
self-centred, self-circumferenced conglomeration,
and the home a den. denying its
own existence, is virtue of the heart instead
of a secretion of the brain; so religion
has its abiding place in the heart, else
nowhere in the li/e at all.
To be a believer in Christ then is no
different than to be a believer in man.
Tell him whom you profess to call your
friend you believe in nira. When you will
not confide in him; when in perplexity you
?eek another's counsel, and iu sorrow another's
sympathy, and you have insulted
faith, and friendship has become in your
liand an empty name. If you believe in a
man trusty him as all men demand you
should. You say you love? Show it by
loving ar.d manifesting the self-denial love
demands, else your profession is a sounding
brass, an empty name, a dastardly affair.
Do you believe in Christ? Show it by
a loving trust. Otherwise, you believe only
intellectually, and that means you do
not want to kave much to do with Him.
It means self first and ahvavs. And it
perchance you start to follow Him from so
superficial a motive be not surprised if the
first time His demands conflict with your
plans von turn traitor and 6wear you
never knew the man. The test is. Jlv
sheep hear My voice and 1 know them and
they follow Me. That is the test?to hear
His voice and follow Him.
Now, what is the purpose of a church,
and in how far does church membership
constitute a Christian? Church membershin
constitutes a Christian just so far as
a Christian constitutes a church member.
Xo church, whatever its name and influence,
has of itself nower to make a man
a Christian, unless the Rdhian Church, ana
that is only in its own estimation. We
fall into one or the other of two errors:
Either of thinking; of Christianity as an abstraction.
or as a fact identical with an organization
of earth, when it is grander
than both. There is no Christianity arart
from the life of its founder. It is not to
be born in a Christian community. It is
not to be swayed by religious excitement.
It is not, under the uplift of tine xnusie.
fl?A inn.-lflK tr>t?f ittinttf r\i a L-ppn (inrrnw
to catch some celestial glimpse of truth,
and conclude you arc henceforth a religious
man. To lie a Christian is nothhsr
other than Christ within you the hope of
glory.
Then th<*re is the other mistake of making
the visible church identical with ihc
reality, indeed, symbols are important.
We can never toll how much satisfaction
the* religious devotee receives from the picture
of the Virgin or the image of tl.c
Christ. The line between the symbol and
tiie spirit may be less attenuated than we
think. More symbols may lead to more
realities than we dream of. An object of j
sense may. however, oftener hinder access
to the spirit than be a viaduct thereto.
Many a person joins a church for the
sake of being a church member rather than
to be a better Christian. Many a person
worships their church and minister rather
than the Christ the church represents and
the minister preaches. Being a good denoniinationalist
is not necessarily being a
good Christian, although if we are good
Christians we ought to be denomination- j
alists. and better denominationalists than
we are. Denominations give form and con- |
tent to Christianity which some souls
would never otherwise perceive. But on
the other hand, denominationalism should
have no content to boast of excejit what
the Gospel imparts. Don't think that to
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be * Methodist, Presbyterian or Baptist
is equal to being a Christian. It may be
so. It may not be so. It depends whether
your denomination intensifies or materializes
Christianity. You may have the form
of godliness, but your very devotion to the
form is a denial of the power thereof. I
have in mind a member of a former
church who would sooner give up
Christ than his immersion and communion.
His unspiritnal life shows he
has done that very thing. He has permitted
these two sacred rites to steal away
his Lord, and he knows not where they
have laid him. Scriptural warrant for ecclesiastical
forms is good. But no ecclesiastical
form should take the place of the
pure heart, the Christ spirit. Christianity
is a Christ imparted divine state of life.
All within the charmed circle, whether of
my church or yours, or of neither mine nor
yours, are my brothers because also of
Christ. "Other sheep I have not of this
fold."^ Don't forget that. Christ said it.
Therefore, it must be true. There shall
n?i. ??.i ,1 i a
iK %Jiiv mu u iiii'.i uii? Mic'Mirm. uutr
fold, ns it is translated. There may be
many flocks in one fold.
By and by boundary lines will fade
away. We think then they will all be
Baptists. The Congregationalist thinks
they will all be Congrcgationalists. And
the Methodist is sure they will all be
Methodists. Ah, brother, better still, they
will all be Christians. And as somp saint
in glory ten thousand years asks. Who are
these? as they all come trooping home like
tired children after the (oils e; the day are
over, so some John will answer: "These
are they who believed in the Lamb of
God which taketh away the sins of the
world." Who knows, Jesus Him>o!f mav
say, "These are they for whom I died.'*
These? These? These are they who came
up through great tribulation and have
washed their robes and made them white
in the blood of the Lamb!
Cemt of Thooght.
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part
of the business of life.?Johnson.
Great elfort from great motives is the
i best definition of a happy life.?Channing.
We can hardly learn humility and tenderness
enough except by suffering.?
George Eliot.
Skeptics are generally ready to believe
anything, provided it is only sufficiently
improbable; it is at matters of fact that
such neonle stumble.?Yon Knebel.
The best time to give up a bad habit is
before you begin it, and the next best time
is when you nave discovered that it is a
bad habit.?I nited Presbyterian.
No man can pass into eternity for he is
already in it. The dull brute globe moves
through its ether and knows it not; even
so our sou's are bathed in eternity, and
we are never conscious of iL?F. \V. Farrar.
The humblest man or woman can live
splendidly! That is the royal truth that
we need to bclie\c. you and i who have no
"mission," no great sphere to move in.
'Ihe universe is not quire complete without
my work well done.?\V. C. Gannett.
"What docs it signify whether I go to
the bottom or not, to long as I didn't
skulk??or, rather," and hare the old man
took off his hat and looked uj>. "so long as
the Great Captain lias llis way. and tilings
is done to llis mind?"?Ueorge Macdonald.
If you wish to know whether you are a
Christian inquire of yourself whether, in
and for the love of God. you seek to make
happy those about you by smiles and pleasant
sayings. Are you a comfortable person
to live with? Ave you pleasant to
have about??Gail Hamilton.
Seeds Tliat Will Crow.
The soul o: man is the great masterpiece
of the great Master Builder.?J. liitchie
Smith.
He is building on the sand who makes
the opinion of others the ground of his
conduct.?I'nited Presbyterian.
It is a noble sight to see an honest man
cleave his own heart in twain and ilitig
away the baser part of it.?Charles Keade.
The capacity of our sorrows belongs to
our grandeur, and the loftiest of our race
are those who have had the proioundest
sympathies, because they have had the
profoundest sorrows.?Henry Giles.
Life is what we are alive to. It is not
length, but breadth. To be alive only to
appetite, pleasure, pride, money making,
and not to goodness and kindness, purity
and iove, history, poetry, music, dowers,
stars. God and eternal hopes, is to be all
but dead.?Malthic D. Babcock.
None but the fully occupied can appreciate
the delight-of suspended, or. rather,
of varied labor. It is toil that creates holidays;
there is no royal road?yes, that is
the royal road?to them. Life cannot be
made up of recreations; thoy must be garden
spots in well farmed lands.?Mrs. Gilbert
Ann Taylor.
If thou canst not continually recollect
self, yet do it sometimes, at least once a
day. namely, in the morning or at night,
examine tlivselx what thou bast done?how
thou hast behaved thy.-elf in word, deed
and thought, for in these perhaps thou has
oftentimes offended against God and thy
neighbor.?Thomas a Kempis.
Development of Character.
Wo are left in this world, not so much
for Vinat we may do here, lor the things
we may make, as that we ourselves may
grow ;nio the beauty of God'.s thought for
us. In the midst o; all oar occupations
and struggles, all our doing of tasks, all
our longings and desires, all our experiences
of every kind, there is a work
going on in us which is quite as important
as anything we are doing with our mind
or with our hands.
In the school toe boy has his tasks and
lessons. According as he is diligent or indolent
is his progress in his studies. In
ten years, if he is failtful. he masters many
things and stands high in his class. Or, if
he is indifferent and careless, lie gets only
a smattering of knowledge, with so many
links missing that hit education is of lktle
practical use to him. But meanwhile there
lias been going on in him another education?a
growth development of character.
The mind grows by exercise, just as
the body does.
Then there is also a subjective moral imprc.-aiou.
produced by the way the task is
[ performed. If one is faithful and conI
seientious, truly doing his best, the endeavor
leaves a mark of beauty in the life.
* :a. c..i : I _i A. _
Ijiil ll one is iir.i<uiiuui. nniiueiu, luifc 10
on:'': self, there is left a wound, a trace o?
marring and blemish, a weakening of the
lilc.-<j. r. Miller.
A Happy Home.
Six tilings arc requisite to < roafe a happy
home: integrity must be the architect and
tidiness the upholsterer. It must be
J warmed by affection, lighted up with
I cheerfulness, and industry tnu^t be the
ventilator, renewing the atmosphere and
bring in irc-!i salubrity day by day: while
j over all a? a protecting canopy and glory
' nothing will sutiicc except the blessing of
God.?Hamilton.
I'rogTO hi.
Many people who show a good deal of
Christian zest at the start so soon get tired
of being Christians. To have earnest views
of Christ and to he intensely interested in
them and controlled by them cannot, unfortunately,
be taken us a certain sign of
the continuance of that interest. The falling
off. the cooling down of Christian enthusiasm
is common experience.?Rev. C.
H. Parkhurst, Presbyterian, New York
City.
Nothing to Fear.
Tiie Bible has nothing to fear from intelligent,
painstaking and reverent criticism.
Its integrity as the inspired word of God
has stood every test which legitimate criticism
has applied to it as well as the assaults
of those who would gladly undermine
its authority if they could.?Rev. J.
If. Sutherland, Presbyterian., Burlington,la.
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NEWSY CLEANINGS.
Fifteen per cent. of (ho South Da<
kota range oattlo have died of exposure
this winter.
Tho Metropolitan Company made a
nrnnnsSIinn t<? liuihl n now silbwav thai
Will COStr-$4O.00U.00O.
Over 2,000.000 independent telephones
are reported in use in the United States
at the present time.
A stubborn blaze in the American
Tract Society Building in New York
City did .<30.000 damage.
A Baltimore insurance paper estimates
the net losses to insurance companies
by the great lire at $31,003,132.
One German city. Chemnitz, sold in
the United States during the year 1003
$4,010,011 worth of stockings and $2,3-'U),0(X)
of gloves.
Striking Western Union messenger
boys in Chicago. 111., were enjoined
from interfering with the receipt or delivery
of messages by the company.
An explosion of flashlight photograph
chemicals caused a fire and panic at
the entertainment of the Strollers' Club
and a disastrous crush was barely
averted.
The report of the Pennsylvania Railway
for 1003 showed gross earnings of
<122,(]2(?,410, with net income from all
sources of $27,300,307 above fixed
charges.
State Banking Superintendent Kilburn,
of New York, recently made public
a report on building loan associations,
showing that the assets had depi'ntiCAfl
? 11 i Til M H M M I
The English House of Commons recently
rejected a resolution to sound
the other Powers on the subject of reducing
armies and navies iu the interest
of international peace.
Mayor McClellan, of Greater NewYork*
has invited representatives of insurance
companies to confer with him
on the proposed new salt water tire
mains in the busiuess district.
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Alexlcan Hills Close.
Mexico. Special.?A number of the
cotton mill owners in Mexico have
announced their intention of closing
down temporarily, owing to the increased
price of the raw material. They
say that the increase they would have
to make in the prices of manufactured
goods would place them out of the
reach of the poorer classes, and they
declare that the manufacture of cotton
goods in this country cannot he continued
on the present basis.
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THE ATLJ
I Great New Off
United States
| to May
1 Contest Opened Ji
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I For the exact, or the nearest tc
Sof Cotton received at all Unl
1st, 1904, both inclusive*"'
For the noxt nearest estimateFor
the next nearest estimate"
For tho 0 next nearest estimate
For tho 10 next nearest estimai
j For the 20 next nearest estimaf
I For tho SO next nearest estimai
j For the IOO next nearest estima
(Additional Offers for Bes
Made During: Dlfferen
of the Contest
For convenience the time of the c
I test is divided into estimates receh
by The Constitution during four
riods?the first period covering fr
the beginning of contest to Februi
' 10, 1004; second period, from Feb
ary 10 to March 1, 1904; third peri
March 1 to 20; fourth period, Mai
20 to April 20. 1904. We will g
the best estimate received duri
each period (in addition to whate'
other prize it may take, or if it ta
no prize at all), the sum of $125.00
I The four prizes thus offered
$125.OO each amount to
Conditions of Sendin
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is now on. Attention is called t
1. Send $1.00 for The Wee
2. Send 50 cents for The
2. Send $1.25 "for The W
TIMATES in the contest?that i:
4. Send 50 cents for ONE
SCRIPTIO.V Such a remittance
make a number of estimates on
warded at the same time estima
without subscriptions, the sendc
[ki fereil l'or only ten estimates in on
M CEIVF.D WITHOUT SUBSCRIP
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2 Secretary Hester's I
I COTTON SEASON.
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roniis:.
8.333,862
7,933.451
6,843,134
6,346,312
7.218,179
7.378 627
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I 1,199,994
11,274,840
10,383,422
9,436,416
10,680,680
10,727,869
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