“It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.”
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.