“If this be a happy new year, a year of usefulness, a year in which we shall live to make this earth better, it is because God will direct our pathway. How important, then, to feel our dependence upon Him!”
American clergyman and bishop http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/authors/matthew_simpson_a001.htm, Giga-usa.com.
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