Pierpont Morgan's Will

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John Pierpont Morgan, American multi-millionaire, in the first paragraph of his will declared: "I commit my soul into the hands of my Savior, in full confidence that having redeemed it and washed it in His most precious blood, He will present it faultless before the throne of my heavenly Father, and I entreat my children to maintain and defend at all hazards and at any cost of personal sacrifice the blessed doctrine of complete atonement for sin through the blood of Jesus Christ, once offered and through that alone."
Sir James Simpson, the famous physician who discovered chloroform, was once asked by an interviewer to name his greatest discovery. He replied: "My greatest discovery was Jesus Christ."
Henry J. Heinz, founder of the great food firm bearing his name, made the following statement in his will: "I desire to set forth at the very beginning of this will, as the most important item in it, a confession of my faith in Jesus Christ as my Savior. I also desire to witness to the fact that throughout my life, in which were the usual joys and sorrows, I have been wonderfully sustained by my faith."