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A nation would be truly happy if it were governed by no other laws than those of this blessed book.
It contains everything needful to be known or done.
It gives instruction to a senate, authority and directions to a magistrate.
It cautions a witness, requires an impartial verdict of a jury, and furnishes the judge with his sentence.
It sets the husband as the lord of his household, and wife as mistress of the table-tells him how to rule, and her how to manage. [dren.
It entails honor to parents, and enjoins obedience on chil- It prescribes and limits the sway of the sovereign, the rule of the ruler, and the authority of the master; commands the subjects to honor and the servant to obey, and the blessings and the protection of the Almighty to all that walk by this rule. It gives directions for weddings and burials.
It promises food and raiment, and limits the use of both. It points out a faithful and eternal Guardian to the departing husband and father; tells him with whom to leave his fatherless children, and whom his widow is to trust-and promises a father to the former, and a husband to the latter.
It teaches a man to set his house in order, and how to make his will; it appoints a dowry for his wife, and entails the rights of the first born, aud shows how the young branches shall be left. * This description of the Bible was found in Westminster Abbey, nameless and dateless. It is invaluable for its wise and wholesome counsel to the race of Adam. It defends the rights of all, and reveals vengeance to every defaulter, over-reacher, and trespasser.
It is the first book, the best book.
It contains the choicest matter, gives the best instruction, affords the greatest degree of pleasure and satisfaction that we have ever enjoyed.
It contains the best laws and most profound mysteries that were ever penned; and it brings the very best comforts to the inquiring and disconsolate.
It is a brief recital of all that is to come.
It settles all matters in debate, resolves all doubts, and eases the mind and conscience of all their scruples.
It reveals the only living and true God, and shows the way to Him, and sets aside all other gods, and describes the vanity of them and all that trust in such-in short, it is a book of laws, to show right and wrong, of wisdom that condemns a folly and makes the foolish wise, a book of truth that detects all lies and confronts all errors, and it is a book of life that shows the way from everlasting death.
It contains the most ancient antiquities and strange events, wonderful occurrences, heroic deeds, unparalleled wars. It describes the celestial, terrestrial, and infernal worlds, and the origin of the angelic myriads, the human tribes, and the devilish legions. [critic.
It will instruct the accomplished mechanic and most profound It teaches the best rhetorician, and exercises every power of the most skilful arithmetician, puzzles the wisest anatomist, and exercises the wisest critic.
It is the best covenant that ever was agreed on, the best deed that ever was sealed, the best that ever will be signed. Patrick Henry's Legacy. - Patrick Henry, a great statesman of Virginia, before he died made a will bequeathing all his property to his relatives; and at the close he wrote this true sentiment. "There is one thing more I wish I could leave you all, the religion of Jesus Christ with this, though you had nothing else, you could be happy; without this, though you had all things else, you could not be happy."