Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Favorite Scripture Texts of Famous People: Including Interesting Facts and Incidents Concerning Texts With Brief Accounts of Famous Bibles
Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people, which is inscribed over the altar in the chapel at West Point, has followed him through a busy life. Two naval Officers measure their lives and daily actions according to the Golden Rule. A well-known poet says: Nothing ever gave me the intellectual and spiritual impulse and help which came to me from the Word. The fact that scripture texts are so interwoven in the daily life of so many persons known as eminent for one thing or another, will certainly give it an added value, if that were possible, in the minds of those who read the Bible, and it is hoped that the information and inter esting facts will be used in creating an interest in the minds of the young in the greatest book in the world. In one Of the early chapters of the book the custom of committing texts in Sabbath School is taken up. One of the purposes of the book is to revive the custom, if it needs reviving. Such an eminent authority as H. Clay Trumbull, editor Of the Sun day School Times, claims that the custom is not dying out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
