If an uninterested spectator, after a careful perusal of the New Testament, were asked what he conceived to be its distinguishing characteristic, he would reply without hesitation, That wonderful spirit of philanthropy by which it is distinguished. It is a perpetual commentary on that sublime aphorism, 'God is love.'
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What other book besides the Bible could be heard in public assemblies from year to year, with an attention that never tires, and an interest that never cloys.
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Disciplined inaction.
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The wheels of nature are not meant to roll backward everything presses on toward Eternityfrom the birth of Time, an impetuous current has set in which bears all the sons of men toward that interminable ocean.
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Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
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