Our Constitution Professedly Rests Upon The Good

I Have Myself, For Many Years, Made It A Practice To Read Through The Bible Once Ever Year.... My Custom Is, To Read Four To Five Chapters Every Morning Immediately After Rising From My Bed. I Employs About An Hour Of My Time.

Whenever Vanity And Gaiety, A Love Of Pomp And Dress, Furniture, Equipage, Buildings, Great Company, Expensive Diversions, And Elegant Entertainments Get The Better Of The Principles And Judgments Of Men And Women, There Is No Knowing Where They Will Stop, Nor Into What Evils, Natural, Moral, Or Political, They Will Lead Us.

The Laws Of Man May Bind Him In Chains Or May Put Him To Death, But They Never Can Make Him Wise, Virtuous, Or Happy.

From The Experience Of The Past We Derive Instructive Lessons For The Future.

In What Light Soever We Regard The Bible, Whether With Reference To Revelation, To History, Or To Morality, It Is An Invaluable And Inexhaustible Mine Of Knowledge And Virtue.