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Christ Jesus: the Marrow of Theology

The late venerable and godly Dr. Archibald Alexander, of Princeton, United States, had been a preacher of Christ for sixty years, and a professor of divinity for forty. He died on the 22nd October, 1851. On his death-bed, he was heard to say to a friend, 'Ah, my theology is reduced to this narrow compass: Jesus Christ came into the world to save.'