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The BibIe.

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orld. John Adams.
sThere is a book worth all other
books ever printed y Patrick Henry.
q It is belief in the Bible which
hs served me as a guide of my moral
nd literary life. Goethe.
81 account the Scriptures of God
B be the most sublime philosophy
Sir Isaac Newton.
81 must confess, the majesty OF
he Scriptures strikes me with as
enlistment. Rousseau.
aThere is not boy or girl, all
ghristendom through, bat their lot
) made better by the great book. :"
-Coleridge.
"To give a man full knowledge oil
tue morality, I should need to send
lin to no other book than the New
Testament. John Locke.
g A noble bookl Ali mems book.
1t is our first statement of the new
Or ending problem of mans destiny
ind Gods way with them on earth.
Carlyle.
aThe Bible furnishes the only fit
ling vehicle to express the thoughts
chat oyerwhelm us when contemplat-
ing the stellar universe. 20. NJ.
Mitchell.
"All human discoveries seem to
be made only for the purpose ofcon-
frming, more and more strongly,
the truths contained in the sacred
SCRIPTURES. Sir John Herschel.
"The grand old Book of God still
stands, and this old earth, the more
its leaves are turned over and pom
dered, the more it will sustain and
illustrate the sacred word. PROF.
Dana.
II always have had, and always
shall have, profound regard for re.
ligion, the religion of my fathers,
and for it's rites, its usages and OBJ
seryances. Henry Clay.
Pointing to the family Bible on
1.-THE stand, during his last illness,
Andrew jackson said to friend :
i" That book, sir, is the rock on which
Iour republic rests
GAS to Jesus of Nazareth, my
opinion of Whom you particularly de-
sire, | think 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."-Benjamln
Franklin.
at is impossible to govern the
world without God. He must be
worse than an inidel that lacks faith.
and more than wicked that has not
gratitude enough to acknowledged
| obligation George Washington.
$50 great is my veneration for the
Bible that the earlier my children
| begin TO read it, the more confident
| will be my hopes that they will prove
useful citizens to their country, and
respectable members of society,"
John Quincy Adams.
| Hold fast to the Bible as tht
| sheet anchor of our liberties write
| its precepts on your hearts and prac
tice them in your lives. To the in
| fuence of this book we are indebted
for the progress made in true civil
cation and TO this we must look al
our guide in the future ~. s
| Grant.
| A few days before his death, TIL
foremost man of all his times, drew
| up and signed this declaration ofhl
religious faith: " Lord | believe
help Thou my unbelief. Philosoph
| ical argument, especially that draw
| from the vastness of the universe, il
comparison with the insignifcanc
of this globe, has sometimes shaker
| my reason or the faith that is in me
| but my heart has already assures
me that the gospel of Jesus Chris
must be divine reality. The SCI
mon on the mount cannot be
merely human production. This be
| lief enters into the very depth of NJ.
| conscience. Daniel Webster.