[A memorable tribute to the light-giving power of the Holy Scriptures. “Barbarian books” (barbaric means something else) they were; but well says Dr. Watts in a paraphrase of Ps. cxix. 96 (and comp. capp. xl., xli., infra),— “Let all the heathen writers join to form one perfect book, Great God if once compared with thine, how mean their writings look!” See his Hymns, p. 238. Ed. Worcester, 1836.]