“Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties.”

— Edward Norris Kirk

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 38.

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American Christian missionary, pastor, teacher, evangelist … 1802–1874

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