Alexander on "The Use and Abuse of Books"

Episode 125 November 28, 2025 00:22:32
Alexander on "The Use and Abuse of Books"
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Alexander on "The Use and Abuse of Books"

Nov 28 2025 | 00:22:32

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Show Notes

Princeton Theological Seminary librarian Archibald Alexander, who died in 1851, had a love for learning and taught students how they best could use books for information and edification. He described books as “the scholar’s armor with which he fights” and emphasized that “the Bible, the first and best of books and heaven’s richest gift to man, contains treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”

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