John Wanamaker was born in 1838 and died in 1922. He owned a department store
and served as Postmaster General under President Benjamin Harrison. He was a
wealthy man, but he made a surprising statement about his greatest purchase.
When he was eleven years old, he bought a Bible and read it. Years later he said,
“I have made purchases costing millions of dollars, but my greatest purchase was made
when I was a country boy eleven years old, when I bought a small red leather Bible for
two dollars and seventy-five cents. I paid for it week by week as I earned money. That
little red Bible has counted for more than anything else in my life. It was the greatest
purchase I ever made.”
Have you bought a Bible? Have you
read it? Start with the New Testament.
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