The Anvil That Wore Out the Hammers

In 1851, John Clifford discovered an old Bible in a London bookshop with a handwritten note tucked inside its cover. The note read: "Last year I read through the entire attacks of Voltaire, Hume, and Paine against this Book. This year I buried my wife and my eldest son. This Book buried my grief." The unknown author had tested Scripture under fire and found it unbreakable — and in doing so, found himself unbreakable too.…