"How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain."
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Horatius Bonar
Horatius Bonar (December 19, 1808 β May 31, 1889) was a Scottish churchman and poet.
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