“The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next.”

—  John Jay

Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts.
Letter to Peter Augustus Jay, April 9, 1784.
1780s

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