sound morality in Christ's Sermon on the Mount than in all the systems of philosophy that have ever been written. Anon.

This is the Book of which the profoundly learned Bacon said, "There never was found in any age of the world, either religion, or law, or discipline that does so highly exalt the public good as the Christian faith."

No calculations could measure, no numbers estimate, the loss, were this Book to be blotted out of existence; nor were it possible to appreciate it, except from the extended cry of misery and despair that would be the consequence of excluding it from the world. Fiends alone, and men like fiends, would toll its funeral knell, and crowd in joyful procession to its tomb; while virtuous and holy minds, veiled in mourning and bathed in tears, would turn away disconsolate, and bury their hopes in the same grave with the Bible. Spring.

This is the Book of which Locke, the profoundest of reasoners, said, "It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter."

This is the Book of which Newton, the greatest of philosophers, said, "We account the Scriptures of God the most sublime philosophy."

This is the Book of which Milton, the first of poets, said, "There are no songs to be compared to the songs of Zion."

It is the great design of the Scriptures to teach the best to despair of being self-saved, and the worst not to despair of being saved by Christ, and to offer to all the help they want. Adam.

The Scriptures are an inexhaustible fountain of knowledge, and the more copiously we draw from that fountain, the more abundantly does it continue to flow; they are a deep mine, and the farther we explore the richer it is found. Jones.

Who that is a friend to man is not the friend of the Bible? What part of the earth that now enjoys them can afford to dispense with the Scriptures? What greater calamity could befall our world than to lose the last copy of this sacred book? Spring.

It was the exclamation of the learned Salmasius, on his death-bed, "Oh, I have lost a world of time. If one year more were added to my life, it would be spent in reading David's Psalms and Paul's Epistles."

The Bible has never made a good man bad; but, by the blessing of God, it has made millions of bad men good. Fletcher.

For the worldly-minded there is the book of Ecclesiastes; for the self-righteous, the Epistles to the Romans and Galatians; for the mere professor, the Epistles of James and John; for the sceptical and profane, the Epistles of Peter and Jude; for the backsliding and apostatised, Hosea and the Hebrews; for the man who is distrustful of Providence, the book of Esther; for the man of devotion, the book of Psalms; for the afflicted, the books of Job and Jeremiah; for the growing Christian, the Epistles to the Ephesians, Colossians, and Philippians. Anon.

The knowledge which the inspired writings impart, is in itself so sublime and lofty, that all other science, when compared with it, dwindles into insignificance.

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But for the Bible, man would be placed in a ́grade of happiness far below the brutes that perish. Better be anything than rational without the religion of the Bible. Spring.

In the adaptation of the Word of God to intellects of all dimensions, it resembles the natural light, which is equally suited to the eye of the minutest insect and to the extended vision of man. Anon.

When Sir Walter Scott found himself dying, he said to his son-in-law, "Bring me a book." "What book?" replied Lockhart. "Can you ask?" replied the man whose works have charmed the world; "can you ask what bookthere is but one." Precious Bible!

Truth that never grows old, riches that never decay, pleasures that never cloy, a crown that is never tarnished, griefs assuaged and fears tranquillised, bright hopes and incorruptible immortality, are the gift of God to all the lovers of the Bible. Spring.

David Hume having witnessed in the family of the venerable La Roche those consolations

which the Gospel alone can impart, he confessed with a sigh, "that there were moments when, amidst all the pleasures of philosophical discovery, and the pride of literary fame, he wished that he never doubted."

Promises bloom upon this tree of life like the blossoms of spring; nor do they deceive us when autumn comes, and the fruit is gathered. Spring.

A distinguished infidel, when once asked, "How is it that the Bible is so far superior to all other books that it can be read over and over a thousand times, and still retain all its freshness, and why no other book like it was ever written?" replied, "Because there is not room in the world for two such books."

The fundamental principles, the great outlines of legislative science, are found in the civil polity of the Jews; the last four books of the Pentateuch contain the foundations of all wise legislation. Spring.

Since the ark that once contained and preserved this sacred Book was destroyed, this