“To him [Uncle John Vassar] Scripture was the one standard of Christian truth. To its teachings nothing was to be added; from its decisions there could be no appeal. In dealing with errorists, the only question he would allow himself to look at was, What has God said? The moment anything like quibbling or cavilling was heard, out would come his well-worn Testament, and text after text would be turned till captious lips were closed. The inspired Word was the book he studied most. It was to him exactly what it claims to be—‘the sword of the Spirit;’ and what was the hilt, and what was the haft, and what the blade, and how to get hold of the one and smite with the other, was what he sought to know. The authenticity of Scripture he never stopped to argue. He boldly assumed that, and then by its utterances every opinion must be hewed and squared.”
Uncle John Vassar: Or, The Fight of Faith, by Edwin Thomas Vassar, London: R. D. Dickinson, 1879, pp. 168-169
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