“The sum of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous rules endures forever.” (Psalm 119:160)
William Henry Seward was born in 1801. Secretary of State under Lincoln during the Civil War, he would arrange the purchase of Alaska in 1867. As vice-president of the American Bible Society, he declared in 1836:
"I know not how long a republican government can flourish among a great people who have not the Bible… But this I do know: that the existing government of this country never could have had existence but for the Bible. And, further, I do in my conscience believe that if at every decade of years a copy of the Bible could be found in every family in the land, its republican institutions would be perpetuated."
-- Stephen Abbot Northrop in “A Cloud of
Witnesses”
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