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ward and signed the pledge. From that
day Senator Bob Hart became for the
balance of his life plain James NJ. Suther>
land. have put away the tambo and
the bones forever, and shall not don the
cork again. The curtain of my life as q
negro minstrel has been rupg down, and
when 1 go before the world once more it
shall be as the humble earnest worker in
the cause of Christianity and total
abstinence. N. Y. Star.
What some Great Men Have Said o. the
The grand old book of God still stands,
and this old earth, the more its leavest
are turned over and pondered, the more
it will sustain and illustrate the sacred
word.-[ Prof. Dana.
In my investigation of natural science,
l have always found that whenever 1
can meet with anything in the bible, on
any subject, it always affords me a fine
platform on which to stand Lieut..
Msury.
There is book worth all other books
which were ever printed Patrick
Henry.
The bible is the best book in the world.
L John Adams.
So great is my yeneration for the
bible, that the earlier my children begin
to read it the more confident will be my
hopes that they will prove useful citi-
zens to their country and respectable
members of society John Quincy
Adams.
1t is impossible to govern the world
without God. He must be worse than
an infidel that lacks faith, and more than
wicked that has not gratitude enough to
acknowledge his obligations General
George Washington.
Pointing to the family bible on the
stand, during his last illness, Andrew
Jackson said to friend: "Thst book
sir, is the rock on which our republic
rests"
l deem the present occasion sufficient.
ly important and solemn to justi, y me il
expressing to my fellow>citizens pro
found reverence for the Christian reli
gion, and thorough conviction that
sound morals, religious liberty aud a Just
sense of religious responsibility, are es
sentially connected with all true AM
lasting happiness i Gen. Harrison's In
augural Address.
AS to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion
of whom you particularly desire, thjnl
the system of morals, and His religion
as He left them to US, is the best the
world ever saw, or is likely to see
II Benjamin Franklin.
Do you think that your pen, or tn,
pen of any other man, can unchris tian-
ize the mass of our citizens Or have
you hopes OF corrupting few of then
to assist you in SO bad cause Sam
uel Adams Letter to Thomas Paine.
When that illustrious man, Chief-Jus
tice Jay, was dying, he was asked if he
had any farewell address 10 leave nj
children. BE replied. They have the
bible"
always have had, and always shall
have, a profound regard for Christianity
the religion of my fathers, and for it
rites, its usages, and observances.-
| Henry Clay.
A few days before his death, eth
foremost man of all his times".-Danie
Webster-drew up and signed thi
declaration of his religious faith
"Lord, l believe; help thou mine un
belief. Philosophical argument, espe
cially that drawn from vsstness of tn
universe, in comparison with the insig
nifcance of this globe, has sometime
shaken my reason for the faith that is il
me, but my heart has always assured
and treasured me that the Gospel o
Jesus Christ must be divine reality
The Sermon on the Mount can not be
merely human production. This belle
enters into the very depth of my con
science"
1t is belief in the bible which ha
served me as the guide of my moral ant
literary life Goethe.
account the scriptures of God to b
the most sublime philosophy.-lSi
Isaac Newton.
To give a man a full knowledge o
true morality, l should need to send hin
to no other book than the New Testa
ment.-[ John Locke.
know the bible is inspired, becaus
it finds me at greater depths OF M
being than any other book.-LColeridge
1 must confess, the majesty OF tn
scriptures strike me with astonisment
Il Rousseau.
There is not a boy or girl, all Christ
eudom through, but their lot is mad