"If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be. If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will. If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of this land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end. If we work in marble, it will perish. If on brass, time will efface it. If we rear up temples, they will crumble into dust. But if we work on mortal minds and imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and the love of our fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something that will brighten to all eternity." -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852), Politician and Diplomat, At the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 04:16:15 +0000
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