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The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · November 27, 1879

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 54, No. 22

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THE BIBLE.

THE BOOK OF BOOKS, WHOSE DIVINITY IMPRESSES EVERY MIND.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Inter-Ocean, who has read Colonel Ingersoll’s lectures, has collected the following utterances of scientists, statesmen, and thinkers in regard to the Bible:—

SCIENTISTS.

The grand old Book of God still stands, and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred Word.—Professor Dana.
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming, more and more strongly, the truths contained in the sacred Scriptures.—Sir John Herschel.
The Bible furnishes the only fitting vehicle to express the thoughts that overwhelm us when contemplating the stellar universe.—O. M. Mitchell.
In my investigation of natural science I have always found that whenever I can meet with anything in the Bible, on any subject, it always affords me a firm platform on which to stand.—Lieutenant Maury.
If the God of love is most appropriately worshiped in the Christian temple, the God of nature may be equally honored in the temple of science. Even from its lofty minarets the philosopher may summon the faithful to prayer, and the priest and the sage exchange altars without the compromise of faith or knowledge.—Sir David Brewster.

STATESMEN.

There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.—Patrick Henry.
The Bible is the best book in the world.—John Adams.
So 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.
It 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 obligation.—General George Washington.
Pointing to the family Bible on the stand, during his last illness, Andrew Jackson said to his friend, “That book, sir, is the rock on which our republic rests.”
I deem the present occasion sufficiently important and solemn to justify me in expressing to my fellow-citizens a profound reverence for the Christian religion, and a thorough conviction that sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility, are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.—General Harrison’s Inaugural Address.
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think his system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, are the best the world has ever seen, or is likely to see.—Benjamin Franklin.
I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rites, its usages, and its observances.—Henry Clay.
A few days before his death, “the foremost man of all his times” drew up and signed this declaration of his religious faith: “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.” Philosophical arguments, especially those drawn from the vastness of the universe in comparison with the insignificance of this globe, have sometimes shaken my reason or the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that the gospel of Jesus Christ must be a divine reality. The sermon on the mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience.—Daniel Webster.
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of our liberties; write its precepts on your hearts, and practice them in your lives. To the influence of this book we are indebted for the progress made in true civilization, and to this we must look as our guide in the future.—U. S. Grant.

GREAT THINKERS.

It is a belief in the Bible which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life.—Goethe.
I account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.—Sir Isaac Newton.
To give a man a full knowledge of true morality, I should need to send him to no other book than the New Testament.—John Locke.
I know the Bible is inspired, because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.—Coleridge.
A noble book! All men’s book. It is our first statement of the never-ending problem of man’s destiny and God’s way with men on earth.—Carlyle.
I must confess, the majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with astonishment.—Rousseau.
There is not a boy nor a girl, all Christendom through, whose lot is not made better by the great Book.—Theodore Parker.