(August 3, 1867–December 14, 1947), the 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, was British Prime Minister, 1923–24, 1924–29, 1935–37; and Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1922–23. He stated:
The Holy Bible is not only great but high explosive literature. It works in strange ways and no living man can tell or know how that book in its journeyings through the world has started an individual soul 10,000 different places into a new life, a new belief, a new conception and a new faith.3165