I never read anything else moral that I could say I really hankered for, but I sure did enjoy that book.

Old W.P.Mills was a wonder at poetry.
"It beat all how vivid he made all them Old Testament people, an' the things they did.

Why, I never cared two cents for Shadrach, Meshach, an' Abednego before I read that book, but after I read it I never could git them lines of W.P.'s out of my head-- 'The King perhaps that moment saw A thing that filled his soul with awe-Shadrach and Meshach, to and fro, Walked and talked with Abednego.' "I tell you, you can't obliterate them three men out of your mind when you read that verse once.

You see them walkin' in that fiery furnace, even when you're in your little bed; walkin' an' carryin' on a conversation, which, when you come to think of it, was the most natural thing for them to be doin'.

You wouldn't look to see them sit down on a hot log, or to stand still sayin' nothin'.