CHAPTER XXVI TRIBUTES TO CHRIST AND THE BIBLE BY BRAINY MEN NOT KNOWN AS ACTIVE CHRISTIANS. "Their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies them selves being judges.” — Deut. 32 : 31 . BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. “Young man, my advice to you is that you cultivate an acquaintance with and firm belief in the Holy Scriptures, for this is your certain interest. I think Christ’s system of morals and religion, as He left them with us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see.” THOMAS JEFFERSON. “I have said and always will say that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.” DANIEL WEBSTER. “If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our coun try will go on prospering and to prosper; but, if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity. The Bible is the book of all others for lawyers as well as divines, and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and rule of conduct. I believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God. The miracles which He wrought establish in my mind His personal authority and render it proper for me to believe what He asserts. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. “Jesus is the most perfect of all men that have yet ap peared.” 363
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