“The Bible is a treasure. It contains enough to make us rich for time and eternity. It contains the secret of happy living. It contains the key of heaven. It contains the title-deeds of an inheritance incorruptible, and that fadeth not away. It contains the pearl of great price. Nay, in so far as it reveals them as the portion of us sinful worms, it contains the Saviour and the living God Himself.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 30.

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Scottish minister and a prolific author of religious tracts 1814–1867

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