THE INFLUENCE OF THE BIBLE

 Listed below are the personal testimonies of twenty of history's most

outstanding people who have read and been influenced by the Bible:

Abraham Lincoln: "I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever

given man. All the good from the Saviour of the world is communicated

to us through this book."

W.E. Gladstone: "I have known ninety five of the world's great men

in my time, and of these eighty seven were followers of the Bible."

"The Bible is stamped with a Specialty of Origin, and an immeasurable

distance separates it from all competitors."

George Washington: "It is impossible to rightly govern the world

without God and the Bible."

Napoleon: "The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a

power that conquers all that oppose it."

Queen Victoria: "That book accounts for the supremacy of England."

Daniel Webster: "If there is anything in my thoughts or style to

commend, the credit is due to my parents for instilling in me an early

love of the Scriptures." "If we abide by the principles taught in the

Bible, our country 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."

Thomas Carlyle: "The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by

alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a

window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of

eternity, and discern in glimpses their far distant, long forgotten

home."

Thomas Huxley: "The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and

oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it."

W. H. Seward: "The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the

ever growing influence of the Bible."

Patrick Henry: "The Bible is worth all other books which have ever

been printed."

Andrew Jackson: "That book, sir, is the rock on which our republic

rests."

Robert E. Lee: "In all my perplexities and distresses the Bible has

never failed to give me light and strength."

Lord Tennyson: "Bible reading is an education in itself."

Horace Greeley: "It is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a

Bible reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of

human freedom."

John Quincy Adams: "So great is my veneration for the Bible that the

earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope

that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable

members of society." "I have for many years made it a practice to read

through the Bible once every year."

Immanuel Kant: "The existence of the Bible, as a book for the

people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever

experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity."

Charles Dickens: "The New Testament is the very best book that ever

was or ever will be known in the world."

Sir William Herschel: "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 Isaac Newton: "There are more sure marks of authenticity in the

Bible than in any profane history."

Goethe: "Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural

sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind

widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral

culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not

go."

From pages 17, 18. "The Gospel Standard", Volume 44,

Number 1, September 1994. Published by the "Peoples

Gospel Hour", Box 1660, Halifax, N.S. B3J 3A1.