When John Wanamaker, the merchant prince, was eleven years old, he purchased a Bible. In later years he said of this purchase, "I have, of course, made large purchases of property in my time, involving millions of dollars; but it was as a boy in the country at the age of eleven years that I made my greatest purchase. In the little mission Sunday school I bought a small red leather Bible for $2.75, which I paid for in small installments. Looking back over my life, I see that that little red Book was the foundation on which my life has been built and the thing which has made possible all that has counted in my life. I know now that it was the greatest investment and the most important and far-reaching purchase I ever made."
William Moses Tidwell, "Pointed Illustrations."
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