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Os HillmanMercy Ministries

Presentation

March 2015

TGIFbookstore.com

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Is God

in

Control?

God’s Redemptive PlanRelationshipAdam & Eve

“Free will”

The FallSatan

- Orphan heart

JesusLK 19:10Jn10:10

Power of AttorneyEzek 22:30 Intercede

Jesus DeathAll Authority

Mt 16:19.”keys”John 14:12

“greater works”

Jesus Returns

“Yeah, we blew it!”

Satan “Ruler of world”

Jn 12:21

Psalm 115:16, “The heavens are the heavens of the Lord,

but the earth He has given to the sons of men.”

7500 Covenants

Rom 4:17 Faith is calling things that are not as though

they were!

For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 3:7-9

Killer Sheep

Satan’s Corporate Mission

STEAL your money

KILL your destiny

DESTROY your family

John 10:10

Satan wants your past

to be your future.

God always sees you for what you are becoming (Gideon).

Satan’s 3 Greatest Lies?

1) You are powerless over your circumstances

2) You are a victim of an

unjust God

3) He left you here to suffer

Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. Rev 12:10-11

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We blameGod

for evil

Jesus told them, "You're all going to feel that your world is falling apart and that it's my fault.”

Mark 14:27(MSG)

“The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal

assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could

become and fears it.”John Eldredge

Charis Hillman Brown

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Leaders

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You must become a “free agent” before you can become a “change

agent!”

Both God and Satan want you dead, but each for different reasons.

God

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So then death is working in us, but life in you. 2 Cor 4:11-12

Satan

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

1 Peter 5:8-9

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“Dead men can’t have stress.”

Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ

Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:11

Die quietly. 19

What happens at spiritual birth

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SoulSpirit

Body

Mind, will, Emotions

“Progressive holiness”Sanctification

New Instantly100% holy

Relate to God thru spirit

Heart

“Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete

without blame at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.” l Thess. 5:23

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For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. – Ephesians 6:12

Screwtape to his demon, Wormwood:

“I wonder if you should ask me whether it is essential to keep the patient in ignorance of your own existence. That question, at least for the present phase of the struggle, has been answered for us by the High Command. Our policy, for the moment, is to conceal ourselves.”

• (Screwtape to his demon, Wormwood, from the Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis) C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Harper Collins Publishing, San Francisco, CA 1942 p. 31

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“There are two mistakes the church makes when dealing with the devil: to blame everything on him or

to blame nothing on him.” - C.S. Lewis 23

24%General population

believe Satan is real

52%Christians

believe Satan is real

DECEPTION

When you’re deceived you don’t know you are deceived.

Barna Research 2008

Satan’s Strategy?

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he

may devour.” 1 Peter 5:8-9

Satan wants to kill your destiny and make your past your future.

Satan’s strategy is to kill

Jesus

“And the dragon stood before the woman who was

ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon

as it was born.” Rev 12:4-5

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on

your heart by the one who knows what you could be and

fears it.

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“Satan” means

“opposer”

Angel of light2 Cor 11:14

War against those who obey –

Rev 12:17

Lion - Devour1 Pet 5:8

KillRev 12:4;

Jn 8:44

Seeks to kill & Destroy – Jn 10:10

AccuserRev 12:10

Deceive, lieJn 8:44

Know Your Enemy

Blinds unbelievers

2Cor 4:4

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's

schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put

on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.

Ephesians 6:10-13

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For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:8-9

LOGO

4 Reasons for Adversity1

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Consequence of the CallJoseph

Sin Gehazi – leprosy

Open doors – Jn 14:30

SonshipHebrews 12:5

Spiritual WarfareJohn 10:10; 1 Cor 16:9

Adversity

“I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.”

-- John 14:29-31

There was nothing in Jesus that Satan

could have a legal right to in His life.

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4 Primary Hindrances to becoming a Christian who transforms their

workplace for Christ.

1. Unbiblical View of Work & Ministry

2. Greek vs Hebraic view of God

3. Religious Spirit

4. Generational Strongholds

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1. Unbiblical View of Work & Ministry

Sacred/secular

Defining ministry

Whatever you do, do unto the Lord. Col 3:23

Hindrance #1

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2. Influence of the Greek Philosophers vs. Hebraic RootsHindrance #2

For I have bent Judah, My bow, Fitted the bow with Ephraim,And raised up your sons, O Zion, Against your sons, O Greece,

And made you like the sword of a mighty man." Zech 9:13

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Hebraic vs Greek

Active appeals to the heart

Cognitive appeals to the intellect

vs

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Influence Greek Philosophers vs Hebraic Roots.

• Greeks acquired wisdom by reason and analysis.

• Hebrews acquired wisdom by obedience.

Ps. 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

• Early church understood that knowledge was not what changed the world, it was the power of God working through people.

My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power. 1 Cor 2:4-5

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How We Relate to God

Hebraic• Process Focus• Obedience a priority• Relationships• Transparency, love

Produces Mature Believers

Greek• Cognitive• Program focus• Information a priority• Controlled groups• Service, activity-based

• Produces Shallow Believers

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Hindrance #3: Religious Spirit

• Defines the religious spirit as “an agent of Satan assigned to prevent change and maintain the status quo by using religious devices.”

- Dr. Peter Wagner

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Jesus primary opposition

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices-mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law-justice, mercy and faithfulness…Matt 23:23-24

Spirit of Religion

• I must “do” something to be acceptable by God; puts people under yoke of bondage; legalism

• Religion divides into sacred/secular

• Religion says only overt spiritual activity is acceptable to God. i.e. Eric Liddell, running

• Bible study at work not necessary. “I go to church on Sunday.”

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Religion versus Relationship

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The Religious Spirit in the Workplace

Motivates believers to live out their faith in legalistic and rigid ways.

Especially evident in the south.

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Spiritual Warfare, Strongholds & Childhood

Wounds

Hindrance #4

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Recognizing the Enemy “Within”

People in my life don’t make me the way I am, but reveal the way I am.

Dr. Sam Peoples

Meet John

Need for recognition from performance. i .e., civic projects, sports, business success.

Emphasis on building financial security - workaholic.

Activity-based relationship towards God - works.

Lack of emotional intimacy.

Over-control of people & circumstances.

Hillman Family

3 Generations of Business Owners

Insecurity & Fear

Primary Manifestation:

Control

Generational Stronghold:

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Definition

“The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ”( 2 Corinthians 10:5).

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Created to Experience the love of God

Eph 3:17-19And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

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God created us with seven needs

1. Dignity

2. Authority

3. Blessing & provision

4. Security

5. Purpose & meaning

6. Freedom & boundary

7. Intimate love & Companionship - Genesis 1&2

Whenever we seek to meet one or more of these basic needs outside God we have

set the stage for the development of a generational stronghold.

Satan convinced Eve to believe God was holding out on her, and He would not meet her

needs so she chose to meet her own need.

Examples of Generational Strongholds

• Deceit & Lying Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob

• Control Laban,

Rebekah, Jacob, King Saul

• Sexual – Ps 51 Concieved in iniquity

Rahab, David, Bathsheba, Absalom, Amnon, Solomon

Family Challenge

The Family Challenge

Spiritual Strongholds Work At The Subconscious Level. Their Influence Is Often Unseen Until There Is A Problem.

Strongholds are designed to keep us from experiencing God’s love. Strongholds are often generational.

All strongholds that are built in our lives are a result of seeking to meet one or more of these needs apart from God’s will for us.

Stronghold Development Process

1) Satan inspires THOUGHTS into my mind (subconsciously) which appeal to my natural tendencies to meet needs.

2) Entertaining these thoughts brings on EMOTIONS.

3) Giving in to emotions eventually leads to taking some sort of ACTION.

4) Continual participation in this behavior causes me to develop a HABIT.

5) Once a habit is developed, a STRONGHOLD is built by that spirit

Strongholds oppress versus possess. They:

(1) Control, dictate, and influence our attitudes and behavior;

(2) Oppress and discourage us; and

(3) Affect how we view or react to situations, circumstances, or people.

Singapore woman

“Sunglasses”

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Entry points that allow

strongholds to develop

You cannot take spiritual ground

if Satan still has ground in you.

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Shame (Satan) versus Guilt (God)

Shame

I

AMA

Mistake

Guilt

I

MadeA

Mistake

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But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. 2 Cor 4:2-3

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Arrested Development

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Arrested Development

Def: When a wound in childhood freezes emotional maturity to within 2 years of the wound. The adult lives as a child emotionally.

“ You’re acting like a child.”

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“Arrested development that is caused by the wounds of childhood amplifies or magnifies our sin nature. The deeper the wounds, the more we act selfishly and childishly. When we have too much childhood trauma, we are hindered in our ability to develop genuine healthy relationships with our Creator and others close to us. We can’t readily reach out or accept others—because our wounds have made us unteachable, unable to trust and afraid of truth.”

Dr. Paul Hegstrom, author of Broken children, Grown Up Pain.

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i.e., Michael Jackson

False-self - Poser“I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid” (Gen. 3:10).

Whenever we are wounded we seek to hide from our true self because our shame says we will not be acceptable to others as we are. We are driven to hide behind our “fig leaf” (false-self) that protects us from our true self. This all happens on a subconscious basis as a built-in protection mechanism from wounds we received as a child.

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“90% of marital difficulties are rooted in a trauma experienced by one or more spouses between the age of 7 & 9.”

– Dr Paul Hegstrom

Arrested development sabotages the

heart’s good intentions and turns

us into a spiritual hypocrite. (Rom 6)

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We all require others to live by the rules we were required to live by in childhood.

Perfectionism

Impatience

Shame

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Become what others accept

He delivers the afflicted in their affliction and opens their ears [to His voice] in

adversity. Job 36:15 AMP

God forces us back into our

wound to learn the truth about our wound to become healed and free.

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The Heart – John Eldredge

“His plan from the beginning was to assault the heart, just as the Wicked Witch did to the Tin Woodman. Make them so busy, they ignore the heart. Wound them so deeply, they don't want a heart. Twist their theology, so they despise the heart. Take away their courage. Destroy their creativity. Make intimacy with God impossible for them.

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The Heart – John Eldredge

Of course your heart would be the object of a great and fierce battle. It is your most precious possession. Without your heart you cannot have God. Without your heart you cannot have love. Without your heart you cannot have faith. Without your heart you cannot find the work you were meant to do. In other words, without your heart you cannot have life. “

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TGIF and 3 Lies Testimony

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I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me. John 14:30-31

Not in notebook

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IDENTITY

“Whenever we grant anyone other than Jesus Christ authority to tell us who we are we have made that person a God in our life and entered into idolatry.”- Craig Hill, Family Foundations

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Addictions

Anything you cannot willingly stop

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Addictions

“All addictions are rooted in the need to be loved.”

– Henry Wright

Anything you cannot lay down by an act of your will.

Counterfeit desires for love & intimacy.

Isolation chambers

designed to mask our pain.

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Serotonin & Dopamine

• Neurotransmitter -Nervous system, brain stem– Emits“Feel good” hormone

• Negative or painful emotion causes under-secretion of serotonin – Satan

• Hypothalamus/ brainstem connection = drop in serotonin

• = addictive behavior

Neurotransmitters

• The neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin act as chemical messengers that relay nerve signals through the brain.

• Dopamine regulates muscle movement, motivation and the sensation of pleasure.

• Serotonin primarily affects mood, impulsiveness and social behaviors.

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4 Lies

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1. Believe God is not faithful.

2. Addictive habit will satisfy.

3. Believe habit is stronger than power of God

4. Addiction is just the way you are.

Craig Hill

Men Not Nurtured/Received Physical Affection as Children

• Sexualized as adult• Look to wife to get what they did not get in

childhood• “Sex is love” • Wife can never satisfy “hunger”• “ You’re a sex addict.”

Never had a basic need met as a child

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And He gave them their request,But sent leanness into their soul. Ps 106:15

When we live in compromise we lose confidence in the faith dimension of our lives. We struggle to hear the voice of

God which forces us to live our Christian life through performance and the flesh.

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Men and women deal with relationship

pain differently

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Larry Crabb, Shattered Dreams

All of us are trapped by addiction to a desire for something less than God. For many women, that something less is relational control. “I will not be hurt again and I will not let people I love be hurt. I’ll see to it that what I fear never happens again.” They therefore live in terror of vulnerably presenting themselves to anyone and instead become determined managers of people. Their true femininity remains safely tucked away behind the walls of relational control.

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Larry Crabb, Shattered Dreams

More common in men is an addiction to non-relational control. “I will experience deep and consuming satisfaction without ever having to relate meaningfully with anyone.” They keep things shallow and safe with family and friends and feel driven to experience a joy they never feel, a joy that only deep relating can provide. Their commitment is twofold: to never risk revealing inadequacy by drawing close to people and, without breaking that commitment, to feel powerful and alive. Power in business and illicit sex are favorite strategies for reaching that goal.

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Mother-son Bonding

“Everybody Loves Raymond”

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Mother – Son Issue

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Feels controlledGets emotional validation “outside”Feels controlled

Men need sexual expression once they bond w/ female

“”You’re not my mother!”

Tiger Woods

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and I. We both went through some incredible

healing and forgiveness….

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scriptwriting and how we develop characters..”” –

Hollywood Director

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What happened to us may not be our fault.

But it is our responsibility to change our behavior once we know the reason for our behavior.

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Knowing the truth is first step to freedom

Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." – John 8:31-32

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We overcome the influence of strongholds by renouncing and repenting of their influence through the prayer of faith in Jesus’ blood to cleanse us from these influences.

Whenever the reaction to a situation seems to be an extreme response compared to the offense, you can know there is unresolved pain or the enemy is at work in the situation.

When people react out of their pain their behavior is never logical.

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The Symptom Merely Indicates there is a Root

Process of Discovery & Deliverance

• Symptom – “Lights on the dash”• What is the root of this behavior?• Revisit the wound – identify the event(s)• Discover the lie - agreement you are making• Apply truth – “The truth shall make you free”

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John 8:31-32

Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the

truth shall make you free."

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Steps to Freedom From Strongholds

1.Identify Strongholds and their Symptoms. Rank them from 1(lowest influence)-10 (greatest) by the level of influence they have. Work with someone close to you to confirm the strongholds. i.e., spouse, close friend.

2. Confess and renounce the influence of strongholds in Jesus’ name. Each believer has the power of the Holy Spirit to renounce the influence of strongholds over their life. We “have divine power to demolish strongholds” (2 Corinthians 10:4).

3. Meditate and walk according to the Word. Renew your mind.

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Personal Reflection

• Self-inventory stronghold test

• Further study

• www.tgifbookstore.com

See resource table

Broken Children, Grownup Pain – Dr. Paul Hegstrom

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Any self-image contrary to the truth of who God

says you are in the spirit is a false self-

image. You must agree with God, not with your

flesh or the devil.

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“Who said that?”

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“Let this mind be in you that is also Jesus

Christ.” Phil 2:5102

Whatever God sets you free from He automatically gives you an anointing to set other people free from the same thing you were a victim of. That is your payback on

the enemy.

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The Singer

“She’ll really know how to sing that song

when someone breaks her heart.”

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Exodus 20:5

For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the

children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.

Tracking Two 200 Year Generations

Max Jukes Married an atheist woman

• Had 560 descendants • 310 died as paupers • 150 criminals • 7 murderers• 100 drunkards • One-half of the women

were prostitutes

Cost the US government $1.25 million in 19th century dollars

Jonathan EdwardsMarried a Godly woman• Had 1,394 descendants• 295 graduated from college• 3 state governors• 13 college presidents; 65 professors• 3 US senators• 30 judges100 lawyers• 56 doctors• 75 military officers• 100 missionaries, preachers, authors• 80 held public office• 3 mayors• 1 comptroller of the US Treasury

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